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All right, so we really believe that after last week, we talked about ananas and saf. It was the three of us on last week, and death in the church, this sense of this dread, esteem, this boo kiss, the Sun. The sense of stewarding, sorry, my voice is a we bit uh, dicky tonight. The, the sense of the, the glorious weight of God and the associative fear of the Lord is driving us in the best sense of that into needing to steward a greater capacity of His Holiness, a greater capacity of His weight, a greater capacity of all that He is, so that we are moving glory to glory, capacity to capacity in this season, and that we are not the same people that you and I were last week or, uh, the week before.
It's interesting. I actually, um, somebody was driving me around. I was in a taxi down in London, and, um, he worked in tech, and he said to me, "You do not want to be the same person you were three years ago." And you don't want to be. This was a tech conversation, a social media conversation. You don't want to be consuming social media the same way you were three years ago. And we were having that sharpening conversation about the continual change in us all and the continual desire for us to be better than we were before. Now, it, for the people of God, that is about an increasing capacity, an increasing capacity to hold more of God than you could do. You start talking about that, and then we're going to give you some really strong top tips for increasing your capacity. That's just really good. I think the key prayer, really, for the season is to ask the Holy Spirit, "Increase my capacity." It is the thing you should be praying across the board. Holy Spirit, increase my capacity. And it's interesting what, what you were saying there about that discussion of, um, of who, who I am in three years' time. I want, I want to grow. Last night, we were graduating our second-year emerging prophets, and I just had this word of the Lord that came of an activation for the EPs and for the, for those who have been raised as, as prophets within our program. And God said, "Ask me to show you who you were, who you are, but most importantly, who you're going to be." Because you need to have a sense of where you need to increase your capacity. You need to have a prophetic word, a prophetic instinct of, "This is who I'm going to be, therefore, this is how I need to grow." And I think that that question, I mean, you can take it and ask it for yourself. "Compare me, God, compare me to who, who, who I was, who I am, but actually, who I'm going to be in the next couple of years." So that I can see where I need to grow, where I need to be stretched, where my capacity needs to be increased. And I think that informs then your decisions. It informs your choices. It informs even how your behaviors need to be elevated, how your thinking needs to be elevated. And actually, you then come out of, of even that simple activation with a sense of knowing what to do or knowing where your capacity needs to, needs to be increased and needs to grow. That's a very helpful question. And actually, there's a lot of joy in that because you see your own development, you see your own growth. And actually, as people wrote down in the comments, just where they were and where they are and where they want to be, it was really powerful. And that's something that we can, we can all do, actually, just reflecting and then where, where we used to be and where we are now. It, I mean, it is just such a cause to give thanks. And then on the basis of that, it kind of propels you with a level of faith and certainty of what God did. Gosh, He's going to do more. Increase, increase. I need to be stretched.
It's interesting. I had a, a, a long conversation. I actually, the reason I wasn't graduating the EPs was because we moved Airbnb again last, last night. Oh, joy in the seemingly eternal saga of buying a house. Um, hopefully this one is very short-lived. So I moved house again. It took me hours and six car loads of stuff. But in the middle of all of this, I'm on the phone having a conversation with somebody who's quite distressed about, "What am I doing wrong? And, uh, why am I always, uh, under such attack? And why are things always so difficult?" And there seems to be this just repetitive warfare that this person was saying they are continually in. I don't know whether you're there. "Why, why am I always fighting this thing? And why, why, why does everything always feel like going wrong?" So I'm, I'm literally, I'm driving the car with half my life's possessions behind me, and I'm doing this counseling on the phone. Welcome to, um, my world. And I heard myself say, "You, you need to take your warfare as a great compliment. A, a great compliment." Yes. That Satan is paying you well. It's a backhanded compliment, but Satan is paying you a backhanded compliment by attacking you so much. You're worth coming against. You are worth coming against. That's a different perspective. It's a totally different perspective. That actually, you see your present, and you're a little bit like a rabbit in headlights. Oh, my, oh, my goodness. I can, I feel this, uh, rejection or, or this lack of breakthrough, or here we go again. You pick, pick what it is. You know, somebody in the comments is saying, "I'm always asking what I'm doing wrong." But this backhanded compliment where Satan says, "No, no, no, no. I'm not just interested in your small moment of a window. I am interested in what you have the potential to become. I am interested in getting in and stopping you." Because I understand who you will be one day. And I actually think Satan understands more of who we will be one day than we understand. So true. That's a revelation. Right now, while Satan is, I, I think two things are going on right now. While Satan is giving you a backhanded compliment of irritating you, and I use that word, it's probably a lot stronger than that, I think God is saying through it, "It is an ability for you to increase your capacity to hold more of My nature." Yes. Yes. Come on. And the capacity and ability to overcome. And it's a different way of thinking. Just like you're saying, when the enemy does come and does start to give you a hard time or something, actually, not only is it a backhanded compliment, it also gives you information. Yes. About actually what your call and your purpose is. And therefore, if you go to God and do your due diligence with the Lord, and actually do the warfare, what happens is you have overcome. And what have you done? You have gained capacity. You have gained muscle. You have gained territory. So, you know, it is, um, it's important. This is one of the ways that we build capacity. Yes. Yes. And so therefore, we understand that really, our present sufferings are nothing in comparison. We quote scripture here. Our present sufferings are nothing in comparison. And that's not just to the glory that's to come. And that's not just the glory that's to come in our death. That's the glory that's to come in your six months' time, right now. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think that's one of the things about the whole warfare business that actually we've got to see challenge in a different way. When challenges come, actually, this is where muscle is built. This is where perseverance is built. Yes. And I think we like to think that those scriptures of strength to strength and glory to glory, it's like, "Oh, yeah, faith to faith, yeah, Lord, just, you know, bring it on." But actually, that really is about testing. It's about difficulty. It's about struggle. I mean, I don't think any of us could disagree with that, that actually going to the next level, which is a new level of capacity, involves a struggle of some sort. Yes. And we need to make sure we're struggling in the correct way in order that we can get to that new level, new capacity, new strength, new muscle, um, a new readiness for the next level. That is about building capacity. And it could be formational. Those, those moments. And you've got to be able to look at challenge. I think one of the great kind of wisdom learns as prophetic people, as those who are led by the Spirit, we've got to be able to look at challenge and then say to Jesus, "May this form me more into Your image. May I learn from this challenge or this, um, ball drop or this trip up or, or this failure or, or, or this difficulty? May it form me more into Your likeness." And rather than giving the enemy all the authority to define the challenge, we take that out of his hands and we say, "Jesus, we put back in Your hands that You would form me in this, that I would come out more reflective of who You are." Yes.
Now, I'm going to talk about four areas, and we're going to take them each in turn that I think God wants to increase your capacity in. Now, before we go into these four areas, if you're taking notes, there are four areas that we will hit, uh, sequentially. You've got to know here that this is about God raising you up to deal with principalities. He, He's raising you up to land to nations. It's raising you up to be able to prophesy into atmospheres and change the weather. He's raising you up to be one who has the capability, the capacity grown in you, to steward nations and to have influence and impact. Now, you can stay where you are and just impact your next-door neighbor, and that is brilliant if that is your call. But I want you to understand, understand that there is an international, world, global call on the people of God to steward and to deal with principalities and powers, to be the cities of refuge, to be the Goans in Egypt for provision, to be those who bring the word to the Lord, to those who set rhythms and timings rather than Satan, like Daniel 7 says, who tries to set the laws and the times. So can I push you to think about the increase of your capacity yet in hosting His presence? Because if His presence fully came on you, you would die right now because you need an increase in capacity to steward that. So I want to look at those four areas and, uh, we're going to walk through them. I think the first one is: God wants to increase your capacity to steward resources, provision, wealth, and finances. Now, let me unpack that, and then you guys can jump in on the wealth, resource, or finance. So, you know, that, that means He wants to put you in provision, finance tests, because He wants to see what you do with wealth and wealth creation. And the prayer is, "God, give me the trustworthy capacity to increase my stewarding of Your kingdom resources for the well-being of many, not for myself." Now, that is actually quite a long, long journey on occasions. And part of that journey is that you have faith, and you have faith maybe for a few pins or dollars, whatever your currency is, or, and then you grow. It's like David and I taking on ministry buildings. And you'll be aware of these journeys because Sam, you were with us for most of, oh my goodness, the rent for the building is what, a thousand pounds a month? Ah, it's a whole ministry. You know, there's nothing in the bank. And then the next building is double the price. And then the next building is double the price. And then you, you kind of feel yourself grow. I have faith for this. I have faith for this. You know, um, I know what it is to juggle and apply and be a good steward of. And then I think when you forget the lesson, you go back into, "Oh my goodness, things are a bit financially tight. Am I, am I into looking at, at provision through the human energy effort lens? I must do more." Or am I stewarding resources from that glory capacity place where I'm thanking You for it? I'm, I'm, I'm giving appropriately, and I am trustworthy with. I mean, pick where it goes wrong. It goes wrong in a multiplicity of ways, but an awful lot of it is thinking, "I deserve this. I earned this. Um, I impact it." And God says, "Uh, no, you didn't. Uh, uh, you only have your, your, you only live and move and have your being because I blessed you to have it." So there is the need, and you will be going through resource provision tests. Yes. Yes. But, and, and you just will. And, and through that, you should be growing in your capacity to steward much resources. Okay, but that is the journey. Don't panic right now. That is the increased capacity that you will need to have because you will need to employ people, and you will need to be a resource. Yes. And so on.
Comment on the finance aspect. I think the prayer, we've got to get our language right here. It's not, "Increase my capacity to have wealth." It's, "Increase my capacity to steward." And stewardship is the word here. And the areas where we've gone wrong is that we have almost with greed, kind of stored up for ourselves, and I must have wealth sort of way. And God saying, "No, I want My people to steward it. It's about resourcing, being a resource, having a flow that invests, that provides, that, that builds what God wants in the earth." And I think as well, on that, we've got to be those as believers that are reclaiming entrepreneurial grace. And actually, what it means to be entrepreneurs, whether that's in the marketplace or not. I think we can get almost sidetracked. Am I spheres of influence? As much as that can be helpful, actually, all of us need some entrepreneurial grace. All of us need that pioneering ability to, to, to push beyond what we see and to dream, but then to build, to have the ideas, the solutions that build something that, that allow then for the stewardship of wealth.
Can I come in in the back of that before you could? Because you, you triggered. So it's almost like you're a prophet. Almost just, just a. No, he was, he was looking at my notes. It's not even there. Not even there. It, first of all. All right, we'll just, we just. You've got pred notes. Yeah, yeah. I do. This is very impressive. That's very. Not pred notes. Okay. That's why he's having to cog mine. Oh, I do not. We're just all profits together. Same God. I actually was in London last weekend, and I wrote a word about, um, the new level of entrepreneurial grace. And it actually came from a moment David and I were watching the TV. There was something about the cost of living crisis. Yeah. And there was like a word of the Lord just dropped into the room between David and I, and, um, about the only way we're going to survive is with entrepreneurial grace. Come on. Come on. And, uh, sorry, David, I've got low battery alarm. I don't think this is working or plugged in. So sorry, just this is the technical greatness of trying a new building. But the word of the, the word of the Lord, uh, was this: He's not on his hands and knees at my feet. That was not the word of the Lord. Your husband needs to be in his house. Right. Oh, it's recharging. Look, he's a miracle worker. Absolutely. Okay. Right. Okay. Focus. So the sense was that when I go to, um, nations, you're looking for what's in the atmosphere and what is not in the atmosphere. I, when I've gone to America, my friends, and I know there's a lot of Americans who watch, I'm always really impressed, really impressed with the fact the can-do attitude that "I can make it happen" is actually missing in the European context. And I don't know what those of you who travel and who are spiritually minded will, will know the difference in anointings in different cultures and different continents is very strong. I was surprised the last time I was there, high absent the entrepreneurial push. Yeah. It was very disturbingly different. And even less so on the shores of the British Isles. Do we have that grace? And we really felt that the Lord say, "If you do not ask for the capacity of the entrepreneur, you are not going to be able to lead and steward what this season line needs because of the need to decree and know where supply lines must open up." And the weight of reestablishing yourself in that mantle, or actually in the fresh weight of that mantle, and that the increased capacity for the season must be an entrepreneurial grace. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it, it's in a sense, the word prosperity is a dirty word. So we don't even like to use it. Well, not in the West. Sorry, in Britain. Well, not in, in, in the British Isles. But as you, you guys were talking, I was just thinking, we really have to deal with our fear of abundance. Yes. And our fear of lack. And that poverty spirit is still kind of sniffing around our heels and is still there, particularly in the British Isles, I have to say. But can I just tell you, um, in terms of believing and having capacity for just one very quick story? Tell a quick story. Um, you're like a tennis ball, but going back. I'm, I feel like I'm the umpire, anyway. But at one stage point, we needed to buy a house, and we were short by 50,000 Irish pounds. And, um, I was praying and saying to the Lord, "We just need a cash injection of 50,000." And as clear as anything, I heard Him say, "If you can have faith for 50,000, have faith for 500,000." Wow. And I just want to say that that God will take us on a journey on, on this individually. He really will, so that we can bear weight in terms of abundance. Yeah. And what actually turned out, X amount of months later, exactly what I said happened. And we ended up in a scenario that we could never have personally afforded. But the issue was, we weren't looking for gain, personal gain. We were actually looking for somewhere and a building that would be able to steward what God was doing and would be right for that time of the glory that He was releasing. So I think we've just got to get rid of, uh, we've got to take risks. We've got to take risks. And we've got to get rid of our, of our poverty mindset and our fear of abundance and have that can-do, and call in that can-do, and borrow a friend who has the can-do attitude so that we can actually rub off one another and so they can pray for us and impart to us, so we can share in that blessing, in that blessing. And may I release to you, yeah, a fresh entrepreneurial weight, my friends, and an increased ability for the stewarding of resources. Let that land on you right now in Jesus' mighty name. Come on.
So I think the second area. The first area we must increase in capacity is finances and resources, property. The second is in how we steward people, and the capacity and the wisdom for growing your staff, enhancing your relationships, the development of family relationships. Because here we are, these, these are all, you're listening to prophets talking about what is needed in the season now. The increase in provision is because you are going to be a lender and provider outside of your own four walls. But this is because you are going to have to steward souls, and you are going to have to steward billion-soul harvest, and you are going to have to not be put off and fall apart at the first sense of a personal issue. And you're going to need a new wisdom in relationships. And I do think Jesus leads you in a greater wisdom. And if you're praying the first prayer is, "God, give me a greater capacity to steward resources, a greater capacity for re, for, uh, entrepreneurial greatness." Now, we're praying, "God, increase my capacity to navigate people and relationships well." Because your glory will not come unless I am a living stone, fitted together. We are really practical prophets right now. This is applicatory prophecy. So it is that sense of, um, look, I know when we had a small staff team, give me grace. We had a member this many years ago, and they, well, healed, uh, but at that point, they weren't. And we've all been there. And they maybe had a little bit too much of an alcohol liking, should we just say that? And I remember the late-night conversations, you know, "How are we going to? How are we going to leave this?" And it's like, all-consuming, and it's swirling around here, and it's ours. And you know, you don't stop thinking about, you don't stop thinking about it. But then God increases your capacity. And I have 30, whatever of you, and you know, somebody's sick here, and somebody's having a melt down over there, and somebody needs paternity leave over there, and there's a stress there, and there's a sin there. You know, and actually, and you go, "That's okay." Because the capacity has increased to steward lives and to steward and not be overwhelmed by one person's mess. Come on. This is what I'm talking about. You can't be derailed by one stressful relationship. You, you can't let that happen. You cannot allow. You have to pray for your increased capacity to increase. All right. So that I'm talking to somebody right now. I see the hundreds of you on. You cannot allow one dysfunctional relationship. I'm looking straight at you to derail you. You have to increase your capacity to go, "Okay, God, You will have a solution. There will be a wisdom. You are increasing my capacity because I'm probably going to have to deal with a whole load of people who are a mess and not fall apart." Says the Lord. Says the Lord. Totally. Says the Lord. I think our language really has to change. Um, and even what we decree over ourselves. And God really saying, "Stop saying, 'I'm just not relational,' or 'I'm socially awkward.'" And the Lord is saying, "Look, stop saying things like, 'Oh, I don't like people,' or 'I'm not a people person,' or 'I'm not good with people.'" And actually, for introverts, I'm quite introverted. And actually, you've got to fight the tendency. I am, I actually am. I'm a verbal processor, but I actually am introverted. But actually, of compulsive verbal. But we, we can't, we can't use our introverted tendencies as an excuse or as a cop-out. And we've got to start to decree over ourselves, "Look, God, make me." If you know that you're not that good with people, you start to, "God, make me a people person. Give me relational ability. Increase my capacity." Here we are again. The, the, the prayer for the season: "Increase my relational capacity." And actually, I do think some of you even now, you watch, are going to get healed supernaturally and set free from things like social anxiety, people anxiety, where you just kind of get yourself into a place of stress around conversations and relational interactions. There's deliverance for that even now as you watch. And you've got to start to pray. You actually, yes, as some of you are saying there, "God, make me a people person." Yes. Yes. Absolutely. Make me a people person. I think that's actually my husband typing in the comments. So, as I need stronger glasses because I still can't see with these, but actually, increase my relational capacity. And stop cursing yourself. Stop cursing your relational ability with just unhelpful phrases. And actually, when you see the comments there, hello, my friends, because we, we have them all coming in from all sorts of places. It's hard to keep up with them all. But the guy or girl, sorry, who's having panic attacks in public, who's watching on YouTube, I just bless you into a social grace and an increasing capacity to navigate and steward people. And not just for you to survive in that place of people, but to thrive in your ability to manage them, to lead them, and to take them deeper into the presence of God, warts and all. Come on. Yeah. Yeah. We agree. Yeah. And just somebody has put down there about fear of man. And I mean, I think with that relational capacity, our fear of man, or fear of one another, is a massive deal. Yes. And actually, now it's come up. You know what we can do? We look, we're with, we understand. But in Jesus' name, we bind that fear of man. And actually, we loose you from it right now in the mighty name of Jesus. And we loose you to have excellent relationships, not just good relationships, but excellent relationships. And that you will immediately see a difference. You know, we're going to agree for that because it's not just a suggestion. And we're not even just prophesying it. We're actually speaking it into being. And have so that it is established in your life. Freedom from fear of man in Jesus' name. Yes.
Okay, so anything else on people, or we move on to point three? I am trying to be sequential here. People. Okay, so we're following. So increase my capacity, increase my capacity to steward resources. Come on. Give me that entrepreneurial gift, Father God, that I may lead in this area. Increase my capacity with people. Give me wisdom and that ability not to be derailed at the first sign of trouble. Third area of increasing capacity: You must nigh up your level of capacity for spiritual warfare. Sorry, was that an odd drum roll? I tried. I tried. Okay, we need a whole signed team here for the drum roll. Okay, spiritual warfare. It is no longer enough that not only do you ignore the principalities and structural demons and nations, but you are also ignoring your own indwelling demons. You are not dealing with the demons in your friends. In fact, the spiritual warfare is right down here somewhere on the ground. And actually, God is saying, "No, you must take charge of the principalities and powers and set your face like flint that you're going to say, 'God, increase my capacity to deal with devils,' and start with me." I, I've just taught a whole, yes, day, all day, I've taught that for this e-school. So do you guys want to, you could see what you remember what I said, but I think you probably heard me preach it a few times. Go for it. No, totally. I think we have to stop being so distressed when it comes to a warfare situation or an attack or when we are confronted with demons. And I think some people have warfare trauma and demon trauma that act like from warfare experiences that we just need to lift off now in Jesus' name. Actually, if you freeze in warfare situations, I like God just said there, He's going to liberate you from warfare trauma. Who knew there was such a thing? But that, that sense of, "Oh my goodness, there's a demon. Oh my goodness, I sense something." And then you freeze. You feel paralyzed because of maybe previous experiences where it didn't go in the direction you would have liked it to. And really, we're in days, and you'll hear us say this a lot, where we need to learn what it is to be led by the Spirit. And part of that is that just that complete knowledge that our wrestle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against rulers in the spirit realm. And as we increase in our awareness of the spirit realm, we should also be increasing in our ability to warfare and our ability to overcome. And I think we are going to see the overcoming church, the overcoming ecclesia, the overcoming people of God arise as we start to increase our capacity for spiritual warfare. And look, you're going to need to get around people who understand spiritual warfare. You're going to have to start to have the language. I mean, I tell you, this is actually even a recent, um, growth area in my life in terms of when I watch the news. After watching, you watch the news one time, it is, I did, it is even just what's out your mouth. It shouldn't be comment, really. Or it shouldn't be kind of your, your own opinion. It's no, "I bind that in Jesus' name," or "That decision won't cause that demon to come into the nation in the name of Jesus." See it out loud. You can tell we were actually watching the Queen's funeral. We were, and my dad and David and I are lined up in the, like, right on the edge of our seats because we know we're commanding that whole event, you know, totally. And you're sitting there, I was learning, I was taking notes. I was like, "This is, this is where I need to grow." Actually, that. And I think it's even in those places. You know, and I know that sounds really practical, but actually, I have noticed even as I've listened to the radio or the news or I've watched that, or even in conversations with some friends recently, that quick out of my mouth are warfare decrees, warfare statements. It's the word of God instinctively. And you've got to train yourself that warfare is is instinctive. So talk to me about how you, how you got there. Because I've always known you as, you know, we've worked together for years. I've always known you as a, a, a stalwart of warfare. You, you come to it naturally. You come to it easily. But you're even noticing an increase in capacity personally. What, what flicked that switch? A lot of the time, it is, it's, it's the, the instinct of not just knowing what to bind, but knowing what to release. That is really important. And the increasing of, of my capacity. I think warfare, we can wrongly get, we can wrongly think it's one-sided. It's, I stop, I bind, I cast out. I actually think the most glorious, powerful part of warfare is the other side. That actually, now that I've bound, I instinctively know what I need to release into the nation. So when we're watching that, the funeral, when something, a demon is released, and we stop it, what am I releasing as a prophet? What am I releasing as a son of God into the atmosphere? As news comes out about whatever, what am I releasing into the atmosphere? Once I've bound, your first step is binding. Your first step is casting out, but it's not your final step. The job isn't done. And I think in increasing your capacity, you're increasing the instinctively. Totally. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that occupier is a great word. The other word that I'm using a lot at the moment is what we are looking to see established instead. Get rid of the dark stuff, but actually the light and the life. What is it that is being established back in? And I mean, I, I don't know about you guys, but I like, I like a good fight. I like a good fight because Jesus has overcome. So when we walk into a scenario, it's like it's not a fair fight because it, we, we really are on the winning side and a victory side. And I'm not just saying that as a phrase or a terminology, it is, it is so true. And I think we've got to get hungry for the overcoming fight. And actually, this, this weariness, and we've been talking about the weariness or or warfare trauma, and a few people were putting up there about weariness in warfare. And what, and there are definitely seasons where you feel like it is constant, that you're pushing it back, pushing it back. But you know what? Sometimes we're spending too much time pushing it back instead of speaking to that darn thing and dealing with it. And I'm hungry for that. So it's actually, it's out, and there is a new thing firm, birthed, and formed, released, loosed, and established. So we can move on. I'm not going to have the same fight again. No, no. You don't want to go around the mountain a, a second time. Absolutely. Increase my capacity to win in war. And I think, look, the word dominion and being a dominionist or dominion theology, man, if you Google that, don't. You're all going to, it's like, tell yes, neither. The fascinating. You get a load of, um, nonsense misinterpretations of scripture. And it's not great, um, because it's done in a kind of empire spirit of domination rather than anything else. I don't think in this realm we can ever rub out that word dominion from scripture. It is in Genesis. And I think we misappropriated, uh, Genesis one, subdue, fulfill, and have dominion. We misappropriated it as a domineering spirit. That's not right. I think we're on a course correction with that. But when we increase our capacity for warfare, you have got to be able to say, "Dominion is in scripture, and dominion is a concept of the increase of the government of God." And therefore, if I'm working with the right dominion, not the ugly side of it, and we're not dominionists in the, in the wrong sense of that, don't misread us there, but, but you have to say, "Well, I actually have a role that's right in chapter one of Genesis to have dominion." In other words, I must decree into the land, um, the rulership of King Jesus. And I must not be scared to do that. So I was shocked. Let's pull this right back to our own patheticness about ourselves. I was, that's very strong, isn't it? Um, take there, take us there. I was in a meeting not that long ago, like three days ago, so you'll know where it was if you track with my schedule. And normally in worship, I'm like, "Yay, God!" And I'll nip into the spirit realm. And I'll try to spend as much on my eye of camera spirit. Oh, the angels are worshiping. I can see what people are made to do in this spirit realm. I see the call of God on their lives. I choose to ignore the demons. And, you know, and I can see their greatness. I can see His greatness. You go to the throne room because sometimes, to be perfectly honest, I get sick of singing man's emotions in song lyrics. Is that too? No, totally with you. Sorry. I do not want to sing another human being's emotion. Give me scripture to sing. Right. So, um, and for the first time, this is the first time this has ever happened to me. I close my eyes. The worship leader's doing, I don't know what they're doing. It's neither here nor there. Somebody's waving a flag, all signs, glorious screens everywhere. Sometimes I find the screens distracting because I'm like, "Right, where's the spirit when I've got so much tech in my face?" Yeah. Yeah. Is that screen overload? Screen overload? Screen overload trauma? Screen trauma in worship? Flashing light. Okay. So I like, I'm just going to go into the spirit and worship. You know, oh, happy day. It was absolute ugly chaos. Oh, I felt like I closed my eyes and everybody's individual chaos was so strong that it was like I had gone into a spiritual deadly tropical rainforest. Nasty critters everywhere. And it's the first time I have ever gone into the spirit where I thought, "God, get me. I do not want to see in the spirit for the next 20 minutes, please." Because it was so ugly. And I'm like, "God, what was going on?" And the sense of agreement that they would not own or command clarity into their own lives. Wow. Wow. That they would not, not deal with the personal demonic rounds. I know that they would not deal with the destructive spirits. And it was like a people I'd never seen anything like it on mass. And so the, the problem with the individual not going, "I bind my chaos," and in the name of Jesus, "I loose my life into clarity and occupy." Clarity and occupy. Clarity. When a whole people do that, it was horrendous. And I'm like, "Get me out of here." Like being in the jungle. "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here" would be a new show. Dear goodness, that would be an awful. So what did you do? What did I? Well, I'm, I'm watching the leaders because I was the invited speaker. So I don't always like to rudely grab the microphone. Sometimes I've done it before, but anyway. But you could see there's a lot of prophets there. "Go, something's wrong. Something's wrong. Something's wrong. Something's wrong. Something's wrong." So one grabs the microphone, prophesies something. And you know that when you know that before you are out of the first worship song, if a prophet has grabbed the microphone, it was not going in the right direction. Trouble. You are in trouble. By worship song two, the other prophet was up. By worship song three, the third prophet. And I'm like, "Oh, this is awful." We're just like, "Right." But actually, to stop and to say, "Deal with your chaos." And actually, you want your, your, um, your capacity increased to deal with big gun demons. You've got to deal with your own confusion and swirling mess. And you, and actually, I think, have you ever been into somebody's house that's physically chaotic? Yes. Like, like you're like, "Just get a dustpan, get your Hoover, right, get the vacuum out and do something about this. Organize." Just organize yourselves. So sometimes you are disorganized in life, totally, because you are disorganized in the spirit. True. And your personality trait of your mess, your punctuality, your organization, you're being prepared, you're seeing your finances, all of that, where it doesn't seem to is because you have not known what it is to deal with the foxes, the little foxes of, "I speak clarity, and I speak order, and I will not have demonic chaos." Sorry, that was good. Excellent. That was the first time it's ever happened to me. That's really interesting. Dear Jesus. A whole people. How can the Spirit of God come in that? No, totally. Absolutely. Right. You great story. Great story. Great story. Increase my capacity for spiritual warfare. We have to see on the back of that and to be Spirit-led and to be someone who knows the spirit realm. Yes. Yeah. Great. Very good. Let's go on to number four. Let's go on to number four. After my opinionated stuff, somebody's saying, "Did it shift?" That's the question. All right. Um, we're moving on to glory. Not much, not much, not much, because because if you don't know what the right demon's name is, you prophesy the wrong thing. You've got to know what the demon's name is. You've got to be able to say, "That's chaos." Like prophesy, and I loose clarity. You know, and you can command all sorts of things, but if it's not the right demon, and you don't have the increased capacity, it's not going anywhere. It needs to be called out. "Super size my capacity," says Ruthie Green. Well prayed. Yes. Right. Amen. With a little fire. That's good. Yes. Very good. Right. Number four. Number four. And then over to you guys. So we're increasing our capacity: one, for finances and resources. Two, for our stewarding of people. How do I wisely steward people? Three, for my spiritual warfare. Four, increase my capacity for glory. Yeah, that hosting His presence. Uses words interchangeably. Yeah. Increase my capacity for the glory of God. You have got to be praying that right now. You've got to know how to steward the weight of His glory so that you can shift situations with great authority and great dignity. Over to you too. Yeah. Yeah. I think, um, I've become really aware of one word, but just as in my spirit all the time for where we're going as the church, and it's the word fullness. And I think God in His heart wants to come to us with so much fullness of who He is. And actually, because we don't yet have the capacity, He can only give us a measure of a portion. And I believe that for years, decades, we have been in the, "I will give you a measure. I will give you a portion." But now, as we come to the days where we are saying, "God, increase my capacity for glory," it is unto Him saying, "Okay, now I want to come with fullness. Now I want to come with the fullness of My weight, My heaviness, who I am to a people and onto a people and into rooms and into places and onto homes and onto individuals." But I think as well, we've got to admit that's quite terrifying. Yes. That is terrifying. And that that should cause us to tremble. And in our trembling before God, it should cause us to tremble off, to shake off anything that is an opponent to His glory or resists who He is. And, and really, that prayer of, of, of God, "I want to be a person," but also, "I want us to be a people." This is not just a personal prayer of, "Increase my capacity for glory." I'm praying it for, for us here as well. Increase our glory. About yourself and your own encounters. Increase our capacity for glory. Why? Because God is saying, "I want to come with fullness. I want to come with fullness." I mean, you can feel even as, you know, as we've been talking, the sense of heaven's thrill as our desire for more capacity. I mean, it's Him who puts the desire in us, but His, He is so longing to pour out, pour out resources, pour out entrepreneurial spirit, pour out. But He's looking for people who can weight-bear, a people who can contain what He's doing, um, a people who can, who love what He's doing, and, and love His, the fullness of His character. Because I mean, that's really what His glory is. It's the manifest manifestation of the fullness of His character. Um, I guess, uh, we were talking about death in the house of the Lord, God last week, an fire, a church leader dropped dead. Anyway, indeed. But yeah, I mean, these are serious times. And just going back to one thing, I think I might have said before, but with this comes great responsibility. Because as we ask for greater capacity, I mean, God will enlarge, um, our capacity where He can trust us, where we are loyal to Him, and where we will do it His way. It's not just, "Increase my capacity, um, for Your glory, and by the way, God, I'll just do whatever I want with that." And I'm always thinking back to when, you know, King David was, you know, or when David was bringing the Ark of the Covenant back into Jerusalem. Go look that scripture up. Fabulous story. And of course, what do we get? We get death because they didn't follow the rules. It was okay for the Philistines to do it one way because they were the Philistines. But when it came the people of God to actually host, carry His glory in increased measure, it needed to be done right. And there had to be the fear of the Lord. There had to be sacrifice. There had to be going back and doing it God's way. And I just think there's a real call on us to actually be humble, to real humility in this calling out to God, "Increase my capacity, increase our corporate capacity to hold Your glory." But oh God, make us wise. We want to do it Your way so that we will live, so that all will live and all will thrive for the sake of Your glory. So when you read scriptures like, "Because of the righteous, the city is blessed." Yes. I actually cannot remember where that, that is. David, my glorious husband, where can you just Google that? "Because the righteous, the city is blessed." So there we go. He'll give you a scripture. He'll type it into the comments. It's coming in. What, what does that actually mean? How, how does your righteousness bless the city? What, what are you looking for in that? What's the measurement of all of that? I think as you, in prayer, "Increase my capacity for glory," what do you get to hold? You get to hold a weight of who He is. You get to carry His goodness. You get to carry His fruitful transformation. Yeah. And because you are, um, exuding transformation, Proverbs 11, apparently, because you are exuding glorious transformative power, you change the dynamic of the area you live in. So can we talk about this issue around weather and weather patterns? How much when we look at Hosea and some texts in Amos, do we see land shrivel up because of sin? It's a massive biblical principle. So you get famine and drought because of sin in the land. All right. The reverse is true. If I hold His glory and His righteousness, it says the city, I think the.
translation David put in the in the comments is the city is exalted or the city is blessed. In other words, you change the function of the land. You change the function of how the weather system responds. How much do you and I need to say, "Increase my capacity for Glory"? Come on! Not so that I can just have a personal revival. Yes, not so that my church can just feel good and have some goosebumps in the moment and woo-hoo, if that's all you want. But that actually you are praying for an increase in capacity because as you hold His glory, yeah, and you hold what is His righteousness and His goodness and His weight and His fruitfulness and His life, you actually exalt the land you are living in to come back into wellness. Practice, yeah. So you've got to be asking questions about how we do that and why we may need to move to different places, even in groups of people, to save land, yeah, because we will bring the glory of God, which will heal the land, yeah.
And this is because I think where we're going, and we've chatted about this a little bit, is we have been a people who have just had anointing. But God is taking us to be a people who are anointed and have glory. And the difference being, you see the comparison in Isaiah 60 versus Isaiah 61. "The Spirit of the Lord is on me." Isaiah 61, "He has anointed me." And that is very much about people. It's a personal, a one-on-one. "He has anointed me to go to preach to bind up the brokenhearted." Needed, necessary. But Isaiah 60 talks about "the glory of God rising on you," and then you start to affect territories, and you start to Kings because you have glory. And we've had anointing where we've had to go to people. And that is personal ministry. That is right. And that is, we want to be a people who are anointed. But actually, I also want us, and God wants us, to be a people who have glory. Because when we have glory, then territories are affected, nations are changed, Kings come to you for for resource, for for for what you carry. That is the differentiation. So you've got to start to pray, not just, "Anoint me, God," but "Increase my capacity for Glory." And we need both anointing and glory back in the people of God. Wow. Woo. There's a prayer. That is such a shift, isn't it? I mean, because we're really moving. It's it's away from just the personal salvation, the personal worship, the personal side. That actually God is after land masses. He's after group people groups. And it, he is really wanted. Can't you just feel he so wants to find people who, who he's really saying to us, you know, are you going to be one who will call out and cry out and ask for my glory? Because he's, his literally his eyes are roaming across the earth to see who wants to be strengthened, who wants the glory in them. Because he is after people groups. He's after land masses. And he's going to connect. He will connect you with other like-minded people, others who have are receiving the same. So that because you can't do this by yourself, you know, you're totally limited by yourself. But actually groups of people. And that's where there was this whole word and and lots of prophetic words about, you know, glory spots across the earth. And it's those are groups of people who have come together with the same passion, the same desire to to to bear the weight of the glory of God, yes, in regions and for nations and for people groups. And that's really where we're at. And that's the discipleship that God is doing in us at the moment. He really is. Yes.
So do you feel this call of God into this greater place of maturity? He wants you to be an exceptional version of yourself. He wants you to be one who doesn't just have the fruit of the Spirit, is character, as much as, don't give up on that, please, that's important. Or the skill of of competency. He wants you to have the capacity for not just greater things in that ethereal way, because, oh, greater things, greater things. No, no, no. Let's get specific. He wants you to have the capacity for resources. He wants you to have the capacity for major management of people and the stewarding of people in all of their issues. He wants you to have the capacity for spiritual warfare at a national level. He wants you to have the capacity for glory that is city transformative. He does not want you to be any longer the one who weeps and hides at at the first sign of trouble, needs a sabbatical because you had a challenging friendship. I'm not undermining. Find that some things are painful. But I'm pushing it a little bit here because I actually think it is the need. There is a need for us to be the grow-up Christians. On the grow-up Christians. We all want to blow up, you know, blow up with the glory. We want. But now he says, grow up Christians. Grow up Christians. Do you want to release, um, a prayer for both of you for their capacity? I've run out of mag. And honestly, I've talked so much, my voice is like decrepit. I'm way to go and get some. So release increased capacity on. Yes. Let me go. L first. Okay. Lots of words this afternoon. But in Jesus name, look, we just come to you and we say, thank you for the delight of Heaven. That it is your, it's your good pleasure to give us the kingdom. Your good pleasure. So Jesus, we ask you. We come to you humbly. But we say, Lord, will you not open the floodgates of heaven and fill us? Will you stretch our capacity? Increase our capacity? Challenge us so that our capacity will grow? And Lord, we take you by the hand, Holy Spirit. We say, will you just give us wisdom as we really seek to follow you? Will you just fill us again with your Spirit and the ability to know what you're doing so that we can cooperate with you? So in Jesus' name, we just loose you the joy of new growth and new capacity and new ability in the Spirit for the glory of God. In Jesus' name. So we just bless you right now into a journey of growth, of an increase in capacity, a continual increasing of capacity. I bless you into that to know where you need to increase in your capacity for resources and finances. I bless you to have an awareness of where you need to increase your capacity relationally. I bless you that you will know where to increase your capacity for spiritual warfare. And I really just want to bless you right now to go into a journey where you increase your capacity to not just be one who is anointed, but to be a people and to be part of the house of God, the people of God who can host glory. And I bless you into that in Jesus' name. That you would be anointed, yes, but you would host glory as well. Amen. In the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Brilliant. Two things you need to know. Another intense part. Are I think we quite like being in the same room rather than on Zoom. Good. It does allow a lot of naughtiness to happen though, as we tease each other. That's Sam. I mean, that's just Sam. Yeah. So you need to know two things. Internship. We have an internship program. We're trying it for six months in Scotland, January. If you want to come and join our internship program, or you have a young person, um, in their 20s, uh, teens, 20s, 30s, get them on our website, get them applying. Program. Immersion program. That sounds submersive. And uh, join that. The other thing is January conference. Start the E. Right. Conference. We always have a blast because to start the E. Right. Uh, conference. I was going to say concert. Conference. It's not concert. It's very definitely about stewarding the word of the Lord for the year. And it's quite wild in the best sense of that, Holy Spirit wild. So, um, where do people stay for the internship? Uh, we will help you source accommodation, but you need to find, um, uh, flats in Glasgow. But we, we help. We don't have a, um, property yet, but we are working on it. Okay. Oh, people are already booking. Jump over to the website and come in January. We actually, in a slightly smaller, our last venue held a couple of thousand or just under that, but this one is capped at 800. 800. So get, yeah. And myself. Oh, you're preaching. I'm preaching. Yes. Marvelous. Jeremiah Johnson and Barry Maracle from Canada. Not Miracle, but Miracle. By name, Miracle by nature. He's a Mohawk. He has a Mohawk and he is a Mohawk from the Canadian tribe. He is just like, he's great. I really love him. Right. Brilliant. We love you. We will see you par church on Sunday. And we have Freddy F. And if you are able to get to Glasgow, 7 o'clock here, actually in the building we're in right now, three hours of worship and encounter in the word of the Lord. And we will see you there if you can. Lots of love. Bye. [Music]