WEBVTT 00:02.461 --> 00:09.170 [SPEAKER_00]: High Praise Podcasts. 00:09.190 --> 00:10.632 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey everybody, this is Pastor Josh. 00:10.652 --> 00:16.139 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll leave Pastor here at High Praise and I want to thank you for downloading today's podcast. 00:16.159 --> 00:20.065 [SPEAKER_00]: We know that this message is going to encourage and bless you. 00:20.445 --> 00:24.891 [SPEAKER_00]: So I want you to open up your heart and receive with the Lord as for you today. 00:26.390 --> 00:32.235 [SPEAKER_00]: If you've been here, we've been in this series entitled Unmuted, and in week one, we talked about this fact. 00:32.315 --> 00:33.616 [SPEAKER_00]: Heaven is broadcasting. 00:34.237 --> 00:36.298 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Heaven has something good to say over you. 00:37.560 --> 00:38.400 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on, I'm going to say it again. 00:38.440 --> 00:40.742 [SPEAKER_00]: How many of Heaven has something good to say over you? 00:41.403 --> 00:43.765 [SPEAKER_00]: It has something good to say over your situation. 00:44.225 --> 00:46.407 [SPEAKER_00]: It has something good to say over your family. 00:47.028 --> 00:50.731 [SPEAKER_00]: It has something good to say over your children and your marriage. 00:50.751 --> 00:55.755 [SPEAKER_00]: In week two, we define really what Heaven sounds like. 00:57.473 --> 01:03.664 [SPEAKER_00]: So I don't like you, I mean, it sounds like exhortation, edification, and comfort. 01:04.104 --> 01:07.530 [SPEAKER_00]: Heaven sounds like exhortation, edification, and comfort. 01:07.951 --> 01:09.774 [SPEAKER_00]: Heaven doesn't sound like condemnation. 01:11.998 --> 01:14.342 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna say it again, heaven doesn't sound like condemnation. 01:15.223 --> 01:17.507 [SPEAKER_00]: Heaven doesn't sound like talking about your neighbor. 01:19.124 --> 01:21.308 [SPEAKER_00]: Heaven doesn't sound like the news broadcast. 01:21.949 --> 01:24.053 [SPEAKER_00]: Heaven doesn't sound like your favorite podcaster. 01:24.654 --> 01:26.357 [SPEAKER_00]: Heaven sounds like exhortation. 01:26.517 --> 01:27.900 [SPEAKER_00]: It sounds like edification. 01:28.280 --> 01:29.322 [SPEAKER_00]: And it sounds like comfort. 01:29.342 --> 01:40.322 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you hear last week, Dad began to preach out of his Ezekiel 37 and talk about unmuting ourselves and coming into alignment with what God is speaking over our lives and over our situations. 01:40.302 --> 01:45.951 [SPEAKER_00]: But today, I really want to bring a little bit more of a maturing message in the midst of all of this. 01:46.532 --> 01:49.496 [SPEAKER_00]: And I want to talk about properly discerning the voice. 01:50.858 --> 01:53.643 [SPEAKER_00]: Because hear me, not every voice is the voice of God. 01:56.747 --> 01:58.831 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything you hear isn't the voice of God. 02:00.293 --> 02:02.757 [SPEAKER_00]: Every thought that pops into your head is not holy. 02:04.319 --> 02:08.706 [SPEAKER_00]: Every person who says, I think God's saying this isn't hearing from God. 02:09.040 --> 02:11.903 [SPEAKER_00]: Not every single one of them is hearing from the Lord. 02:13.685 --> 02:16.427 [SPEAKER_00]: Because if they were, God would be very confused and He's not confused. 02:18.790 --> 02:27.258 [SPEAKER_00]: And if we don't discern properly, then we will call static God and we will call God static. 02:27.278 --> 02:31.643 [SPEAKER_00]: We will mix it up and all the noise we will call God. 02:32.323 --> 02:39.030 [SPEAKER_00]: And whenever the still small voice comes to speak into our hearts, we will ignore it because 02:39.297 --> 02:47.250 [SPEAKER_00]: And I said this already, but I've found oftentimes God's voice is not necessarily the loudest voice, but it is the most clear. 02:49.514 --> 02:58.048 [SPEAKER_00]: It is not the one that always shows up in the wind and the fire and the earthquake and everything else, but it is the still voice inside the leads and guides us. 02:59.615 --> 03:15.631 [SPEAKER_00]: And my concern is in the world today because there has been a misuse of the voice of the Lord because there has been a misuse of prophetic ministry that we, at times, have swung the pendulum in the completely opposite direction. 03:16.031 --> 03:19.315 [SPEAKER_00]: And now we're in a place as we have churches that are dead but they're decent. 03:21.877 --> 03:24.260 [SPEAKER_00]: But then we have churches that are loud, but they're lollus. 03:26.842 --> 03:29.605 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 03:30.023 --> 03:35.089 [SPEAKER_00]: But we have churches that are loud, but they're lawless, and Paul won't let us live at either extreme. 03:36.671 --> 03:37.352 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna say it again. 03:37.673 --> 03:39.675 [SPEAKER_00]: Paul won't let us live at either extreme. 03:40.316 --> 03:42.659 [SPEAKER_00]: It's time, and I'm gonna say this very kindly. 03:42.999 --> 03:45.503 [SPEAKER_00]: It's time for us to grow up without drying up. 03:47.465 --> 03:49.888 [SPEAKER_00]: It's time for us to learn to discern the voice. 03:49.948 --> 03:58.579 [SPEAKER_00]: It's time for us to properly exercise prophetic ministry in hearing the voice of Lord without us becoming dead and dry. 03:58.863 --> 03:59.384 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you with me? 04:00.304 --> 04:06.271 [SPEAKER_00]: People so often get turned off from the prophetic, from prophetic ministry, from the voice of Lord when words are mishandled. 04:06.711 --> 04:11.616 [SPEAKER_00]: So we have to refresh proper principles and understanding and hearing the voice. 04:12.657 --> 04:15.960 [SPEAKER_00]: My goal today is not to make you skeptical of everything. 04:17.182 --> 04:18.303 [SPEAKER_00]: That is not the goal. 04:18.323 --> 04:20.945 [SPEAKER_00]: The goal is to make you skeptical, everyone. 04:21.186 --> 04:25.410 [SPEAKER_00]: But it is to make you skilled at discerning what is God and what is not God. 04:27.128 --> 04:33.335 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I'm going to show my age a little bit, before the day of streaming, right? 04:33.875 --> 04:39.922 [SPEAKER_00]: Before the day of streaming, where we have 57 services and we spend two hours trying to find something to watch. 04:39.942 --> 04:40.743 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't find anything. 04:42.505 --> 04:43.686 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on, y'all know what I'm talking about. 04:44.387 --> 04:48.571 [SPEAKER_00]: You spend more time looking for something to watch than you do actually watching something. 04:48.591 --> 04:52.275 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you just to fall back to something you've watched 47,000 times already. 04:54.382 --> 04:55.283 [SPEAKER_00]: Trying to find something new. 04:55.684 --> 04:58.128 [SPEAKER_00]: Netflix, no peacock, nope, Disney plus, nope. 04:58.789 --> 05:00.311 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's just go back to old faithful, praise God. 05:01.033 --> 05:07.803 [SPEAKER_00]: But before the days of streaming, you could be watching TV, and of course it would always happen during something that you were enjoying. 05:08.665 --> 05:10.788 [SPEAKER_00]: And there would be a tone that started to play. 05:13.032 --> 05:16.577 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on, Gen Z's like I have no idea what you're talking about. 05:18.520 --> 05:20.203 [SPEAKER_00]: And it would say, this is a test. 05:23.272 --> 05:49.093 [SPEAKER_00]: of the emergency broadcasting system and what wasn't trying to do it was there was one thing it was attempting to it was attempting to get you to understand if you hear this this is what this means right this is an emergency this pay attention if you hear this and what we need to do once again is we need to learn what his voice sounds like 05:50.137 --> 05:53.899 [SPEAKER_00]: so that whenever that pops up, we go pay attention to this. 05:54.864 --> 05:57.801 [SPEAKER_00]: But we don't think every other noise is him. 05:59.030 --> 06:01.413 [SPEAKER_00]: because every noise that pops up isn't him. 06:01.873 --> 06:04.376 [SPEAKER_00]: And every Facebook prophet ain't speaking for him. 06:04.697 --> 06:08.822 [SPEAKER_00]: And every person who's a apostle so and so isn't necessarily speaking for the Lord. 06:09.202 --> 06:17.212 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of them are just talking out of their own hurt, out of their own spirit, out of their own thoughts, out of their own philosophy, out of their own political alignment. 06:17.232 --> 06:19.475 [SPEAKER_00]: And it has nothing to do with what God is saying. 06:19.735 --> 06:21.377 [SPEAKER_00]: It has to do with what they want to say. 06:21.617 --> 06:23.479 [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't want to say what I want to say. 06:23.780 --> 06:25.662 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to say what the Lord is saying. 06:25.642 --> 06:29.729 [SPEAKER_00]: And then we need to learn to hear that voice and respond accordingly. 06:30.670 --> 06:31.692 [SPEAKER_00]: First, the Seloni is five. 06:31.712 --> 06:33.876 [SPEAKER_00]: 19, y'all, with me? 06:33.896 --> 06:45.996 [SPEAKER_00]: It says this, do not quench the spirit, do not quench the spirit, do not despise prophecies, test all things. 06:47.275 --> 06:50.619 [SPEAKER_00]: And then, hold fast, what is good? 06:51.300 --> 06:52.441 [SPEAKER_00]: Do not quench the spirit. 06:52.501 --> 06:59.130 [SPEAKER_00]: Do not despise prophecies, test all things, hold fast, what is good? 06:59.790 --> 07:02.954 [SPEAKER_00]: Pulse starts to text here with this incredibly strong admonition. 07:04.076 --> 07:06.879 [SPEAKER_00]: Do not quench the spirit. 07:08.040 --> 07:14.228 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, Paul wouldn't have told us, do not quench the spirit if it wasn't possible to quench the spirit. 07:15.490 --> 07:17.132 [SPEAKER_00]: The spirit can be quench. 07:17.232 --> 07:18.033 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I want to say this. 07:18.073 --> 07:26.524 [SPEAKER_00]: The spirit is not nearly as fragile as what some believers might think he is, right? 07:27.025 --> 07:28.346 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh, a baby cried in church. 07:28.386 --> 07:29.367 [SPEAKER_00]: The spirit's been quenched. 07:32.131 --> 07:35.756 [SPEAKER_00]: The pastor had to talk to somebody before service. 07:35.776 --> 07:37.718 [SPEAKER_00]: The spirit's been quenched. 07:37.799 --> 07:38.640 [SPEAKER_00]: y'all think I'm laughing. 07:38.660 --> 07:39.541 [SPEAKER_00]: There are our pastors. 07:39.721 --> 07:53.495 [SPEAKER_00]: I know who will not go speak to some to their people in the congregation before service because if they talk to a normal human, the spirit of God might be quenched on their lives. 07:54.375 --> 07:59.300 [SPEAKER_00]: And if talking to people, quenched is the spirit of God on your life, that spirit probably needs to be quenched. 08:01.342 --> 08:02.764 [SPEAKER_00]: Because that ain't the spirit of God. 08:03.464 --> 08:05.106 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the spirit of your ego. 08:08.748 --> 08:11.532 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, praise God, I was gonna be nice this morning. 08:12.314 --> 08:17.542 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought I wasn't gonna have a voice and be real chill, but praise God, the Lord's just empowering the voice, so we're just full, go, here we go. 08:20.807 --> 08:20.907 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 08:20.927 --> 08:23.771 [SPEAKER_00]: Paul's telling us this because the Spirit can be quenched. 08:23.791 --> 08:25.354 [SPEAKER_00]: Quenched means to put out a fire. 08:25.955 --> 08:29.440 [SPEAKER_00]: So Paul is saying, don't put out what God has lit. 08:30.382 --> 08:33.967 [SPEAKER_00]: The flame and the fire that God has lit, don't put it out. 08:34.227 --> 08:40.695 [SPEAKER_00]: I find it interesting that in the day of Pentecost that the Spirit descends on them as cloven tongues of fire. 08:40.976 --> 08:46.203 [SPEAKER_00]: God is saying the fire, or a policy on here, is the fire that began at Pentecost. 08:46.223 --> 08:51.569 [SPEAKER_00]: The fire that fell in the upper room, don't quench the spirit and his moving in the church. 08:51.890 --> 08:53.091 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't put it out. 08:53.112 --> 08:59.680 [SPEAKER_00]: We are not in a place where we can say, God, we don't want you to move. 09:01.212 --> 09:02.517 [SPEAKER_00]: People may not understand it. 09:03.542 --> 09:05.249 [SPEAKER_00]: People may not fathom what's going on. 09:05.631 --> 09:11.475 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know at what point the church began to feel like we had to explain ourselves. 09:12.822 --> 09:14.886 [SPEAKER_00]: to everyone for the way that we move. 09:15.507 --> 09:17.772 [SPEAKER_00]: Now listen, we teach, we explain, we do all those things. 09:17.992 --> 09:25.468 [SPEAKER_00]: But there's sometimes that the church is the church and people who are not part of the family of the church right now may not understand it and that's okay. 09:25.768 --> 09:28.874 [SPEAKER_00]: You can observe it, you can learn it, and you can jump in the river. 09:29.175 --> 09:33.143 [SPEAKER_00]: But we're not gonna lower the barometer and lower the standard 09:33.123 --> 09:35.726 [SPEAKER_00]: just because other people may not understand it. 09:36.086 --> 09:53.346 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to light a fire, we're going to let it burn, and if nothing else you can watch us burn for the Lord, and whenever you want to jump in and you want to be on fire for him too, you can jump in and be on fire with us, but we're not going to quench the fire that God has started, because we're not going to be people who quench the spirit of God. 09:55.868 --> 09:57.290 [SPEAKER_00]: So, we've just quench the spirit with fear. 09:57.310 --> 09:59.012 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know about this. 09:59.735 --> 10:01.278 [SPEAKER_00]: Some come, what if we're wrong, what if we miss it? 10:01.718 --> 10:03.381 [SPEAKER_00]: So, we've squinched the spirit with a fence. 10:04.082 --> 10:07.628 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I've seen that ministry abused before. 10:07.648 --> 10:10.453 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of us quinch it with distraction. 10:11.615 --> 10:12.556 [SPEAKER_00]: Can't get off our phones. 10:16.402 --> 10:16.703 [SPEAKER_00]: Hear me. 10:17.304 --> 10:18.005 [SPEAKER_00]: Hear me hear me hear me. 10:18.666 --> 10:24.055 [SPEAKER_00]: Abuse doesn't cancel the authority and the truth of the Word of God. 10:25.452 --> 10:29.738 [SPEAKER_00]: Every truth in Scripture has been abused by someone at some point, right? 10:30.158 --> 10:48.384 [SPEAKER_00]: And God does not condone abuse, and the church says, God does not condone abuse, but just because some people have, and I don't know, I'll probably heard this said before, and it can sound, you know, cliche, but it's true, just because some people have abused a truth, does not mean that we refuse it. 10:49.125 --> 10:55.273 [SPEAKER_00]: Just because some people have abused and said, 10:55.810 --> 11:02.340 [SPEAKER_00]: doesn't mean that we refuse continuing to say thus say if the Lord and doing it in the right way. 11:03.561 --> 11:11.333 [SPEAKER_00]: As a matter of fact, abuse oftentimes, and I mishandling to put it this way, a counterfeit just proves a presence of a real. 11:12.995 --> 11:14.878 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't counterfeit something that isn't real. 11:15.779 --> 11:17.842 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't make a fake of something that's not real. 11:18.643 --> 11:24.552 [SPEAKER_00]: So just because some people have created a counterfeit, that's all the more proof that the real actually exists. 11:25.814 --> 11:28.417 [SPEAKER_00]: And there is a real voice that God wants to bring for it. 11:29.058 --> 11:31.741 [SPEAKER_00]: Paul says, don't extinguish the Spirit. 11:32.783 --> 11:35.085 [SPEAKER_00]: And no, no, see, he doesn't say, don't be emotional. 11:36.407 --> 11:39.210 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, don't extinguish the Spirit, right? 11:39.591 --> 11:44.217 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think sometimes we've been like, we just, we don't need to be so emotional whenever we're worse or worse than God. 11:44.237 --> 11:44.897 [SPEAKER_00]: We're praising God. 11:45.238 --> 11:46.579 [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to just be a little more calm. 11:46.600 --> 11:48.262 [SPEAKER_00]: Paul doesn't tell them don't be emotional. 11:48.282 --> 11:49.523 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, don't quench the Spirit. 11:50.504 --> 11:51.906 [SPEAKER_00]: It's right, God gave you emotions. 11:53.978 --> 11:55.139 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna let you in a little secret. 11:55.159 --> 11:56.481 [SPEAKER_00]: Your emotions are not bad. 11:59.624 --> 12:03.949 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, some of you husbands are like, man. 12:03.969 --> 12:05.151 [SPEAKER_00]: Your emotions are not bad. 12:05.231 --> 12:06.272 [SPEAKER_00]: God gave them to you. 12:07.754 --> 12:08.935 [SPEAKER_00]: God gave them to you. 12:09.676 --> 12:12.859 [SPEAKER_00]: And he will move in your emotions and move on your emotions. 12:12.979 --> 12:15.382 [SPEAKER_00]: And it is okay to be emotional for the Lord. 12:16.203 --> 12:16.443 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 12:17.404 --> 12:19.767 [SPEAKER_00]: Now let all things be done decently and in order. 12:20.827 --> 12:22.529 [SPEAKER_00]: Right, you know what I mean? 12:22.549 --> 12:25.651 [SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time, we are not admonished to not be emotional. 12:25.671 --> 12:28.594 [SPEAKER_00]: We are, but we are admonished, don't extinguish the spirit. 12:30.216 --> 12:30.856 [SPEAKER_00]: And how much do you hear me? 12:30.916 --> 12:32.237 [SPEAKER_00]: The spirit is not a vibe. 12:33.519 --> 12:34.860 [SPEAKER_00]: The spirit is a person. 12:35.901 --> 12:36.561 [SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about a person. 12:36.581 --> 12:37.903 [SPEAKER_00]: And the spirit wants to move. 12:38.703 --> 12:42.327 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't quench the spirit and his moving just because some people have been weird. 12:43.848 --> 12:49.433 [SPEAKER_00]: If you shut down every spiritual nudge, you don't become safe, you become numb. 12:51.337 --> 12:51.617 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 12:51.858 --> 12:53.680 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is what some people have done. 12:53.740 --> 13:05.535 [SPEAKER_00]: And I understand how it's easy to get to that point, where you see things mishandled, and you see things mistreated, and all of that, and you just go, I just don't want to be part of that at all. 13:05.555 --> 13:06.757 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just going to completely shut it down. 13:06.977 --> 13:11.243 [SPEAKER_00]: But whenever we do that, that's not providing a safety, that's numbing us. 13:12.925 --> 13:16.770 [SPEAKER_00]: It's removing part of who we are as Christians, and it's the people of God. 13:17.408 --> 13:20.172 [SPEAKER_00]: We are intended to be led by the Spirit. 13:20.832 --> 13:27.782 [SPEAKER_00]: We are intended to move a Spirit-filled people, which by the way, let me just say this, because I mentioned the emotion part. 13:27.802 --> 13:30.225 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me say it's being Spirit, I'm gonna say it and just leave it. 13:30.565 --> 13:33.709 [SPEAKER_00]: Being Spirit-led people doesn't just mean you shout. 13:36.413 --> 13:37.634 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't just mean you dance. 13:38.616 --> 13:40.258 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't just mean you speak in tongues. 13:41.059 --> 13:44.243 [SPEAKER_00]: Being Spirit-led people means you love your neighbor as yourself. 13:45.016 --> 13:49.722 [SPEAKER_00]: Being spirit-led people means you're kind to other people, even when they're evil towards you. 13:51.064 --> 13:52.545 [SPEAKER_00]: You can shout and be nice. 13:55.790 --> 13:59.554 [SPEAKER_00]: You can pray in tongues and tip your waitress even when they don't fill up your sweet tea. 14:03.760 --> 14:04.601 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on, somebody. 14:06.143 --> 14:14.533 [SPEAKER_00]: You can dance and not make everybody an enemy who doesn't think just like you think and go 14:15.509 --> 14:18.873 [SPEAKER_00]: You can do both, I know that's a shock to some people. 14:19.474 --> 14:22.217 [SPEAKER_00]: We gotta choose if we're gonna be kind or we're gonna be people in the spirit. 14:22.317 --> 14:22.598 [SPEAKER_00]: No! 14:23.499 --> 14:25.962 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're not kind, you're not a person of the spirit. 14:26.443 --> 14:29.907 [SPEAKER_00]: You're a person of your flesh, and you're told to crucify your flesh. 14:32.831 --> 14:33.591 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't quench the spirit. 14:33.612 --> 14:34.993 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not a polite suggestion. 14:35.654 --> 14:36.815 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a charge from heaven. 14:37.937 --> 14:42.883 [SPEAKER_00]: The Holy Spirit is a fire, and God is telling us, don't you dare put that fire out. 14:45.057 --> 14:49.788 [SPEAKER_00]: Oftentimes, we reach for the fiery extinguisher when God starts to move beyond our tidy plans. 14:51.051 --> 14:51.512 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you with me? 14:52.494 --> 14:53.437 [SPEAKER_00]: But we're on a mission. 14:53.477 --> 14:56.604 [SPEAKER_00]: We've been on a mission for a while to make the church weird again. 14:59.972 --> 15:01.395 [SPEAKER_00]: You remember that series? 15:01.612 --> 15:13.005 [SPEAKER_00]: And you might not understand why I live in generosity when the global markets are shaky, but it's because I've never seen the righteous forsaken and there's a fire that burns inside of me that is bigger than anything else. 15:13.305 --> 15:23.637 [SPEAKER_00]: You may not understand how can you have peace when things are going crazy with your kids because I have a peace that surpasses all understanding and I have a computer who is with me. 15:23.617 --> 15:38.600 [SPEAKER_00]: This is what it means to be people who are of the Spirit and that we don't quench him is that He is with us, that He walks with us, that He guides us, that He keeps us, that He is our computer, and He is our helper in every area of our life. 15:38.840 --> 15:40.583 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't just mean you prophesy. 15:40.843 --> 15:45.430 [SPEAKER_00]: It means when everything's going crazy, the Spirit still speaks in your life and in your heart. 15:47.393 --> 15:48.595 [SPEAKER_00]: He gives you peace. 15:50.262 --> 15:54.769 [SPEAKER_00]: The goal isn't to be spooked by the supernatural is to be led by the spirit with maturity. 15:55.991 --> 15:59.416 [SPEAKER_00]: Some people are moving away from the moving of the spirit, but I say let the fire fall. 16:01.920 --> 16:03.282 [SPEAKER_00]: Some people are saying shut it down. 16:03.342 --> 16:05.205 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm saying, holy spirit, you're welcome here. 16:06.828 --> 16:10.894 [SPEAKER_00]: Some people are saying, we're not doing that anymore, and I say this for me in my house, we will serve the Lord. 16:14.259 --> 16:17.164 [SPEAKER_00]: Hear me, you don't need to mute the spirit to get clarity. 16:18.275 --> 16:19.997 [SPEAKER_00]: You need to mute all the other noise. 16:21.299 --> 16:23.983 [SPEAKER_00]: Half of us, it's not the spirit that's leading us astray. 16:24.804 --> 16:26.346 [SPEAKER_00]: It's everything else we're listening to. 16:27.348 --> 16:30.172 [SPEAKER_00]: I know I say this all the time, and I'm just going to keep saying it. 16:30.953 --> 16:33.036 [SPEAKER_00]: Somebody all just need to turn everything else off. 16:35.439 --> 16:37.162 [SPEAKER_00]: You give way too much time to podcasters. 16:38.564 --> 16:39.525 [SPEAKER_00]: Who aren't even believers? 16:40.226 --> 16:41.548 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I think they're heart to turn in. 16:45.140 --> 16:47.683 [SPEAKER_00]: No, they're just in alignment with you politically. 16:47.723 --> 16:53.470 [SPEAKER_00]: So you think that, because you mistaken your political philosophy for the philosophy of the kingdom, and they're not the same thing. 16:58.816 --> 17:01.139 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, I promise I was going to be nice this morning. 17:01.599 --> 17:02.360 [SPEAKER_00]: But here we are. 17:03.361 --> 17:05.644 [SPEAKER_00]: The next thing he says here is, do not despise prophecies. 17:06.725 --> 17:11.451 [SPEAKER_00]: Despise means that you treated as small, silly, unimportant, not worth my attention. 17:13.102 --> 17:15.925 [SPEAKER_00]: And what you to hear me, we believe in the prophetic around here. 17:15.945 --> 17:17.527 [SPEAKER_00]: We believe God is still speaking. 17:17.547 --> 17:18.047 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what we mean. 17:18.087 --> 17:28.899 [SPEAKER_00]: We say that we are unmuted, that we believe the Lord is still speaking, and still has something to say, which is why we have to guard our own hearts, that we don't treat the prophetic voice of God as unimportant. 17:30.381 --> 17:32.043 [SPEAKER_00]: Do not despise prophecies. 17:32.103 --> 17:35.987 [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, don't roll your eyes when God starts speaking to his people. 17:36.777 --> 17:38.521 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't say in your heart, I've heard this again. 17:38.561 --> 17:39.985 [SPEAKER_00]: I've heard it before. 17:40.486 --> 17:41.268 [SPEAKER_00]: Here we go again. 17:41.629 --> 17:43.092 [SPEAKER_00]: That's just their favorite thing to say. 17:43.333 --> 17:44.215 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what that is doing? 17:44.235 --> 17:46.862 [SPEAKER_00]: That is despising prophecies. 17:46.882 --> 17:53.638 [SPEAKER_00]: And let it not be said of us, because you may have heard it said before, but maybe there's somebody in the room that God is saying it just for them. 17:54.226 --> 18:10.092 [SPEAKER_00]: And part of being a part of being a part of the family of God means this that maybe not everything is for you And maybe not every word is directly aimed right at you with there is somebody else in the room that needs to hear it and you know what we're gonna do 18:10.072 --> 18:26.942 [SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna go, Lord, we're gonna let you speak and whoever needs to hear it is gonna hear it and receive it and we believe in we trust that what's being said needs to be spoken into hearts and to lives and those things are gonna be changed and maybe this moment isn't for me and if this moment isn't for me, that's okay. 18:26.962 --> 18:32.873 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna cheer for the people that it is their moment because I believe still that when the prophetic word comes forth 18:32.853 --> 18:51.470 [SPEAKER_00]: that things can change in a moment that whenever the word of the Lord comes forth, that people go from dead to alive, that when the word of the Lord comes forth, that God can turn around in a situation in a singular moment, that when the word comes forth, hope is breathed in the people once again, that when the word of the Lord comes forth, things can change. 18:51.710 --> 19:01.999 [SPEAKER_00]: So Lord, we say yes and amen, we hear your voice speak Lord for your servants here. 19:03.110 --> 19:03.731 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to hear me. 19:04.814 --> 19:07.800 [SPEAKER_00]: Prophecy is the voice of the Spirit in the mouth of believers. 19:09.103 --> 19:17.121 [SPEAKER_00]: And the Bible says this in the last days that your sons and your daughters will prophesy. 19:17.662 --> 19:18.423 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to hear me. 19:18.704 --> 19:19.245 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to hear me. 19:19.265 --> 19:20.528 [SPEAKER_00]: That means you millennials. 19:22.617 --> 19:28.648 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to hear me, that means you, Gen Z, because when prophetic words flow, destinies are unlocked. 19:28.668 --> 19:34.318 [SPEAKER_00]: When God says, thus, sayeth the Lord, demons begin to tremble and promises begin to come alive. 19:35.480 --> 19:37.584 [SPEAKER_00]: Who are we to despise that? 19:39.528 --> 19:40.389 [SPEAKER_00]: Who are we to go? 19:40.429 --> 19:41.571 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that's necessary. 19:42.613 --> 19:43.555 [SPEAKER_00]: Who are we to go? 19:43.735 --> 19:45.739 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think we want to hear any more of that anymore. 19:46.242 --> 20:02.682 [SPEAKER_00]: Who were we whenever some and this doesn't happen all the time, but who are we whenever me or dad or whoever else is up here feels a stirring of the word of the Lord for a specific person and takes time out to call them and prophesied to them in a service be like I don't understand why they do this this is just for them and not for everybody else 20:02.662 --> 20:20.873 [SPEAKER_00]: because maybe God needs to say something to them right now in this moment because you don't know the situation therein and you don't know what the word has the ability to do and as the family of God we rally around them when that word comes forth and we say yes amen go run come alive breathe again in Jesus' name 20:24.025 --> 20:29.513 [SPEAKER_00]: I really believe the spirit is raising a prophetic generation, whose unafraid to speak out. 20:29.553 --> 20:52.564 [SPEAKER_00]: He's unmuting some voices that have been silenced by doubt, and I really want you to hear me, especially young people because I get it, and I know Gen Z is one of the most, and I don't mean this in a bad way though, Gen Z is one of the most justice-oriented and driven generations that we've had on the planet in a long time. 20:53.270 --> 20:55.652 [SPEAKER_00]: and even millennials are bent that way too. 20:56.012 --> 21:07.342 [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of us have seen over the past few years, and especially over the past couple years, how misused this has been by so many people that have labeled themselves as prophetic. 21:07.362 --> 21:11.266 [SPEAKER_00]: But I want you to hear me, the answer to it is not for you to throw it away. 21:13.147 --> 21:16.070 [SPEAKER_00]: The answer for us is to rise up and do it the right way. 21:17.491 --> 21:22.095 [SPEAKER_00]: The answer is not abandonment. 21:22.902 --> 21:26.647 [SPEAKER_00]: and drive this thing in the right direction. 21:26.667 --> 21:28.710 [SPEAKER_00]: The answer is not stop prophesying. 21:29.210 --> 21:39.303 [SPEAKER_00]: The answer is that we become black, Christ, and we continue to prophesy that we crucify our selfish ambition, that so many of these other people had. 21:39.544 --> 21:43.128 [SPEAKER_00]: We crucify our pride, that so many of these other people walked in. 21:43.349 --> 21:46.012 [SPEAKER_00]: We crucify our, I'm going to be somebody one day. 21:48.675 --> 21:52.200 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, anytime I hear a minister, young minister say, I'm going to be somebody. 21:53.362 --> 21:54.723 [SPEAKER_00]: people are gonna know who I am. 21:55.544 --> 21:58.647 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the biggest red flag on the face of the planet. 21:58.667 --> 22:05.354 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if a single person knows my name or knows who I am or if I am somebody, I wanna be known in heaven. 22:05.634 --> 22:07.956 [SPEAKER_00]: I wanna hear well done, good and faithful servant. 22:08.296 --> 22:19.167 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if I've preached a one person or if I preached a 10,000 people because the only thing I am interested in hearing is well, 22:19.147 --> 22:25.395 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care how many tick-top followers I have, how many Instagram followers I have, how many services we have. 22:25.756 --> 22:27.878 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to hear well done. 22:27.978 --> 22:33.105 [SPEAKER_00]: And if we pursue well done and prophesied, we'll hit the mark. 22:35.248 --> 22:36.670 [SPEAKER_00]: We need integrity once again. 22:38.212 --> 22:46.302 [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to take people rising up and doing it the right way, abandoning it like he's equal in the valley of dry bones when we prophesied dead things 22:48.577 --> 22:58.706 [SPEAKER_00]: Hear me, we can't allow a negative experience to make his disobey scriptures command to not despise prophecy. 22:58.726 --> 23:16.643 [SPEAKER_00]: One thing that's going to help us to realize the primary point of prophecy is some of the things we talked about a couple of weeks ago, which is one, the primary purpose of the prophetic is not to fortune tell, it's not to prognosticate the future, it's not to tell you who's going to win the Super Bowl. 23:17.045 --> 23:20.429 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not going to take the score of the Super Bowl and try to make it mean something that God's saying. 23:22.591 --> 23:23.232 [SPEAKER_00]: Y'all are laughing. 23:23.252 --> 23:25.515 [SPEAKER_00]: I've seen it done in about every Super Bowl over the past ten years. 23:25.555 --> 23:34.706 [SPEAKER_00]: If you look at this number, this number means this and this number means that and this people and the chief's one, which means revivals here, and I can't say in the chief. 23:34.726 --> 23:41.854 [SPEAKER_00]: So I don't think that means revivals here at all. 23:47.555 --> 23:48.977 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not the point of the prophetic. 23:49.999 --> 23:53.324 [SPEAKER_00]: It's heaven speaking to build up, to call forward, to comfort. 23:54.026 --> 23:58.613 [SPEAKER_00]: The shepherd's voice will lead his sheep into following, not into frenzy. 23:59.915 --> 24:02.500 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't provoke worry. 24:03.842 --> 24:05.224 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't provoke shame. 24:06.045 --> 24:07.488 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't provoke fear. 24:07.548 --> 24:11.875 [SPEAKER_00]: If it's provoking those things in your life, it ain't the voice of God, baby. 24:12.985 --> 24:25.940 [SPEAKER_00]: Revelation 1910 says this, that the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy, which means this, we shouldn't despise prophecy, because real prophecy will always point us to Jesus. 24:26.641 --> 24:28.463 [SPEAKER_00]: It always sounds like Jesus. 24:28.804 --> 24:30.225 [SPEAKER_00]: It's laced with Jesus. 24:30.566 --> 24:32.147 [SPEAKER_00]: It's filled with His spirit. 24:32.488 --> 24:33.910 [SPEAKER_00]: It's filled with His tone. 24:35.852 --> 24:37.253 [SPEAKER_00]: The last thing, you'll let scripture up there again. 24:37.894 --> 24:39.216 [SPEAKER_00]: You'll still win me, I'm going fast. 24:39.236 --> 24:42.840 [SPEAKER_00]: Do not quit your spirit, don't despise prophecies. 24:43.647 --> 24:45.209 [SPEAKER_00]: and hold fast to what is good. 24:46.011 --> 24:50.638 [SPEAKER_00]: Paul doesn't say reject everything, but he says test everything. 24:52.080 --> 24:56.767 [SPEAKER_00]: John says the same in 1st John chapter 4, test the spirits. 24:56.787 --> 25:01.234 [SPEAKER_00]: Mature believers are not cynical, but they are discerning. 25:03.290 --> 25:07.095 [SPEAKER_00]: And the first place we go is our testing ground. 25:07.676 --> 25:10.440 [SPEAKER_00]: For any word, it never changes. 25:10.820 --> 25:14.265 [SPEAKER_00]: The first testing ground is always the scriptures. 25:15.367 --> 25:20.273 [SPEAKER_00]: And if it isn't in line with the scriptures, you take that thing and you punt it as far as you can. 25:23.077 --> 25:26.983 [SPEAKER_00]: If a voice from God tells you that you need to get a divorce, that ain't God, baby. 25:27.603 --> 25:28.104 [SPEAKER_00]: Punt it. 25:29.346 --> 25:33.111 [SPEAKER_00]: If a voice from God tells you you need to assault the worker 25:37.377 --> 25:38.018 [SPEAKER_00]: Punct it. 25:38.798 --> 25:39.939 [SPEAKER_00]: That ain't from God. 25:42.202 --> 25:46.606 [SPEAKER_00]: If the voice of the Lord tells you you need to go steal something from the bank, Punct it. 25:47.487 --> 25:48.548 [SPEAKER_00]: That ain't from God. 25:49.589 --> 25:58.657 [SPEAKER_00]: If the voice of the Lord says you need to get on Facebook and tell everybody about all the secrets sins of everybody, take that thing and Punct it because it ain't from God. 26:01.860 --> 26:06.625 [SPEAKER_00]: If it isn't God didn't change this mind suddenly and go, yeah, I know that's what I told Paul. 26:07.010 --> 26:36.072 [SPEAKER_00]: but you need to understand you're much more annoying than Paul and I'm coming to tell you something completely different you're an idiot you need to delete your accounts you need to sit down and you need to allow somebody to speak into your life that's gonna get all that mess out of you 26:38.515 --> 26:44.003 [SPEAKER_00]: If it isn't aligned with the Scriptures, punt that, just because a word feels good doesn't mean it's God. 26:45.966 --> 26:49.592 [SPEAKER_00]: Just because it makes you feel, oh, I bear witness with that. 26:49.612 --> 26:53.097 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the Scriptures don't. 26:53.117 --> 27:00.728 [SPEAKER_00]: So maybe your flesh needs to come into alignment and be crucified so that that word doesn't, it's better find some things you should be concerned if it feels good. 27:03.412 --> 27:05.215 [SPEAKER_00]: You just, if you're, 27:05.853 --> 27:08.959 [SPEAKER_00]: If you weren't married to that person, you'd be a lot better off. 27:08.979 --> 27:09.880 [SPEAKER_00]: You look, yeah, that's right. 27:10.201 --> 27:11.844 [SPEAKER_00]: You need to check yourself. 27:13.507 --> 27:15.250 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a fan of you, before you rack yourself. 27:17.514 --> 27:22.323 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I'm gonna win me? 27:22.343 --> 27:22.443 [UNKNOWN]: Yeah. 27:22.463 --> 27:22.563 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 27:22.583 --> 27:25.488 [SPEAKER_00]: Just cause something feels good, doesn't mean it's God. 27:25.508 --> 27:29.275 [SPEAKER_00]: There's times that I thought something like, yeah, that feels good and I'm like, yeah, but that's not what the Bible says. 27:29.335 --> 27:30.257 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't do that. 27:32.633 --> 27:38.059 [SPEAKER_00]: You need to go tell that person off right now, because they cut you off in traffic. 27:38.239 --> 27:38.920 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, right. 27:38.940 --> 27:39.421 [SPEAKER_00]: Praise God. 27:39.681 --> 27:42.564 [SPEAKER_00]: Wait, that's, I'm, I'm told to love my enemies. 27:44.186 --> 27:46.849 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you got to pun that voice because it ain't from God. 27:48.270 --> 27:50.653 [SPEAKER_00]: And you can't tell them they're number one with the wrong finger either. 27:53.676 --> 27:55.198 [SPEAKER_00]: That's also not a voice from God. 27:58.992 --> 28:17.153 [SPEAKER_00]: Second Corinthians 11, 15 says that Satan himself masquerade doesn't angel of light, which means this, even the voice of the enemy sometimes will tell you something that makes you feel good, and appeals to your flesh, and we feel like it's light, but it's really cloaked in all kinds of darkness. 28:18.263 --> 28:19.625 [SPEAKER_00]: Which by the way, let me just say this. 28:20.146 --> 28:27.679 [SPEAKER_00]: In order to test things by the Scriptures, means you have to actually know the Scriptures, and you have to know how to read the Scriptures properly. 28:29.062 --> 28:29.542 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you with me? 28:30.043 --> 28:31.466 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's start with just like reading them. 28:31.846 --> 28:32.608 [SPEAKER_00]: That'd be a good place. 28:33.389 --> 28:36.795 [SPEAKER_00]: And then in the following, come to HPSM and Pastor Casey, you'll teach you how to read a properly. 28:41.283 --> 28:42.685 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, if you wanna go to heaven, 28:45.803 --> 28:46.264 [SPEAKER_00]: Am I right? 28:46.884 --> 28:48.506 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to see him in heaven, you've got to sign up. 28:52.772 --> 28:56.817 [SPEAKER_00]: The enemy will tell you what you want to hear, but what you want to hear is not always what you need to hear. 28:58.559 --> 29:00.081 [SPEAKER_00]: We test the word against scriptures. 29:00.922 --> 29:10.814 [SPEAKER_00]: We test it against the witness of our own spirit in prayer, and also through people in our lives, primarily mature people in spiritual leadership to test the word. 29:11.054 --> 29:14.258 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't go to just your best to who you've told everything that you want to happen. 29:15.453 --> 29:20.599 [SPEAKER_00]: But you find somebody who's a mature believer, who's a leader, who can test what you're hearing. 29:22.401 --> 29:27.047 [SPEAKER_00]: And they can tell you, this sounds like God or this is your flesh. 29:28.248 --> 29:28.729 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you with me? 29:29.349 --> 29:32.273 [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm going to give you, I'm just going to read these, I promise I'm going to preach on each one. 29:32.974 --> 29:38.380 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to give you six quick discernment check points, okay? 29:38.400 --> 29:41.464 [SPEAKER_00]: The body mentioned several of them, but one doesn't align with Scripture. 29:42.244 --> 29:44.447 [SPEAKER_00]: And if it doesn't align with Scripture, what do we do? 29:44.815 --> 29:50.063 [SPEAKER_00]: Puntit, dropkick that Joker, right? 29:51.084 --> 29:53.388 [SPEAKER_00]: Second, does it sound like Jesus? 29:54.529 --> 29:57.494 [SPEAKER_00]: Because the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. 29:58.295 --> 30:00.678 [SPEAKER_00]: If it doesn't sound like Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John? 30:02.561 --> 30:06.767 [SPEAKER_00]: Puntit, dropkick, straight to hell. 30:08.470 --> 30:13.337 [SPEAKER_00]: Three, does it produce fruit or does it produce chaos? 30:13.638 --> 30:30.925 [SPEAKER_00]: Because God is not the author of Confusion, but of peace, every true word I've ever received in my life has given, even if I didn't understand it at the time, still produced peace in my life, not mass confusion. 30:31.947 --> 30:32.367 [SPEAKER_00]: You with me? 30:33.169 --> 30:35.733 [SPEAKER_00]: Does it build exhort comfort as number four? 30:37.335 --> 30:41.181 [SPEAKER_00]: Number five, does it invite obedience or does it feed your ego? 30:44.097 --> 30:47.161 [SPEAKER_00]: Does it invite obedience to Jesus or does it feed your ego? 30:48.463 --> 30:52.808 [SPEAKER_00]: And then the last one is this, can it be weighed by leadership and confirmed in community? 30:54.971 --> 30:57.073 [SPEAKER_00]: Can it be weighed by leadership and confirmed in community? 30:57.234 --> 30:58.275 [SPEAKER_00]: Does it align with Scripture? 30:58.455 --> 30:59.697 [SPEAKER_00]: Does it sound like Jesus? 30:59.937 --> 31:01.479 [SPEAKER_00]: Does it produce fruit or chaos? 31:01.739 --> 31:03.702 [SPEAKER_00]: Does it build, exhort or comfort? 31:03.722 --> 31:09.069 [SPEAKER_00]: Does it invite obedience or feed ego and can it be weighed by leadership and confirmed in community? 31:09.389 --> 31:13.294 [SPEAKER_00]: And once we've tested and we found the good. 31:13.392 --> 31:17.457 [SPEAKER_00]: then we clutch it like treasure. 31:17.477 --> 31:19.419 [SPEAKER_00]: We hold fast to that, which is good. 31:20.380 --> 31:23.403 [SPEAKER_00]: Which means this that we hang on to with everything that we've got. 31:24.665 --> 31:38.640 [SPEAKER_00]: Even if we don't fully understand it yet, even if we feel like it's years and years away, even if we don't understand how it's gonna happen, when it's gonna happen, where it's gonna happen, which most of the time we don't, whenever we get these words, we hold fast to it. 31:40.105 --> 31:40.465 [SPEAKER_00]: Why? 31:40.686 --> 31:45.813 [SPEAKER_00]: And we'll talk about this next week because God gives you a word as a weapon in your hand. 31:47.555 --> 31:51.781 [SPEAKER_00]: We hold fast to it because God gives you a word as a weapon in your hand. 31:54.104 --> 31:58.570 [SPEAKER_00]: When that word is confirmed, as from God you were with it, you pray into it. 31:59.111 --> 32:06.180 [SPEAKER_00]: You hold until that promise comes to pass, and closing on an evil, a real quick testimony 32:07.443 --> 32:23.924 [SPEAKER_00]: Whenever Pastor Miranda was pregnant with our first born child, over 16 years ago now, we stood right up here in the front and somebody that we love and trust gave us a word on that Wednesday night. 32:24.325 --> 32:27.789 [SPEAKER_00]: He was a Wednesday night and the word was this. 32:28.971 --> 32:33.957 [SPEAKER_00]: The word was very simple and it was over her and it says, whenever this baby comes, 32:34.780 --> 32:38.043 [SPEAKER_00]: I see that your faith is just going to go to new levels. 32:39.845 --> 32:44.089 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's one of the things you like shout about praise God, faith is going to new levels. 32:45.009 --> 32:49.514 [SPEAKER_00]: And we miss so many times that faith goes to new levels because you've had to fight battles you've never had to fight before. 32:51.015 --> 32:52.156 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 32:52.176 --> 32:53.597 [SPEAKER_00]: Faith is tested in the fire. 32:54.878 --> 33:04.247 [SPEAKER_00]: And little did we know it wouldn't be too many days later that Miranda would begin to leak amniotic fluid. 33:05.527 --> 33:10.733 [SPEAKER_00]: And our doctor said we're just going to keep him in as long as we can, our doctor, her doctor. 33:12.195 --> 33:13.756 [SPEAKER_00]: I never went had anything done to me. 33:13.796 --> 33:15.078 [SPEAKER_00]: I just said they're not doing a good job, but. 33:18.402 --> 33:20.004 [SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to keep the baby in as long as we can. 33:20.644 --> 33:21.505 [SPEAKER_00]: Put you on bed rest. 33:21.685 --> 33:22.286 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll figure it out. 33:23.387 --> 33:25.410 [SPEAKER_00]: And she went away. 33:26.131 --> 33:26.851 [SPEAKER_00]: She came back. 33:27.312 --> 33:29.715 [SPEAKER_00]: She said, I was just praying and something's not right. 33:30.395 --> 33:33.078 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to get this baby out today. 33:33.099 --> 33:34.420 [SPEAKER_00]: 34 weeks, six weeks early. 33:35.311 --> 33:51.519 [SPEAKER_00]: And as the day progresses, she is in labor, she is pushing later that evening, and while she's pushing, one of the nurses exclaims, is that a full knot? 33:53.863 --> 34:00.795 [SPEAKER_00]: And they said, yep, I remember this doctor, Dr. Edgeworth looked at Miranda and said, you've got to get him out with this push. 34:03.070 --> 34:07.956 [SPEAKER_00]: As you push, and he was born, and the room was definitely silent. 34:09.537 --> 34:14.603 [SPEAKER_00]: No cry, not like you see in the movies at all, silent. 34:16.545 --> 34:18.448 [SPEAKER_00]: And he wasn't breathing. 34:18.468 --> 34:26.597 [SPEAKER_00]: He had the cord wrapped around his neck twice, full not in his cord, which means as she's pushing all supply of life is just being settled. 34:28.484 --> 34:36.436 [SPEAKER_00]: And the first image I have in my mind of my first born child is turning over my shoulder. 34:37.377 --> 34:47.291 [SPEAKER_00]: And seeing this four-pound, fifteen-ounce baby, and there's a nurse over him doing chess compressions with two fingers. 34:49.434 --> 34:52.058 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you start hearing things you never want to hear as a parent. 34:54.041 --> 34:55.403 [SPEAKER_00]: One minute still. 34:57.239 --> 35:21.272 [SPEAKER_00]: and chest compressions continue, two minutes still and that two minutes might as well have been two years and in those moments the only thing that I knew to do was pray in the spirit because I had no English rules and go back to that word. 35:22.417 --> 35:27.824 [SPEAKER_00]: When this baby comes, your faith is going to go to new levels. 35:29.646 --> 35:32.569 [SPEAKER_00]: And in that moment, something rose up in me. 35:34.692 --> 35:36.254 [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, you didn't bring me this far. 35:40.199 --> 35:44.103 [SPEAKER_00]: You didn't bring us this far for this to end like this. 35:45.365 --> 35:47.007 [SPEAKER_00]: My faith is going to go to a new level. 35:48.843 --> 35:50.184 [SPEAKER_00]: My mom was in the room. 35:50.485 --> 35:51.766 [SPEAKER_00]: Theresa was in the room as well. 35:51.966 --> 35:53.328 [SPEAKER_00]: My mom said my dad had text. 35:54.569 --> 35:57.251 [SPEAKER_00]: In the waiting room at Golf Coast said, we need him to breathe. 35:59.494 --> 36:00.335 [SPEAKER_00]: Dad fired by text. 36:00.355 --> 36:02.357 [SPEAKER_00]: I could still hear the Dean of the phone. 36:04.138 --> 36:09.284 [SPEAKER_00]: And fire back at the name of Jesus, breathe. 36:09.304 --> 36:11.646 [SPEAKER_00]: And at that moment, the phone died. 36:11.666 --> 36:14.749 [SPEAKER_00]: And a sudden cry began to emerge from that bed. 36:22.846 --> 36:28.695 [SPEAKER_00]: And the doctor would later tell my aunt, who she was a good friend of Jesus, you don't understand. 36:29.957 --> 36:36.566 [SPEAKER_00]: There is no medical explanation for how he's even alive today. 36:37.248 --> 36:38.710 [SPEAKER_00]: He shouldn't have made it. 36:39.751 --> 36:41.674 [SPEAKER_00]: The story's not over, it continues on. 36:42.395 --> 36:44.939 [SPEAKER_00]: He's in need of you. 36:44.959 --> 36:52.330 [SPEAKER_00]: They're telling us, listen, he's gonna be here at least at least six weeks, 36:53.002 --> 37:00.893 [SPEAKER_00]: You just need to prepare yourself, because for the rest of his life, he's probably going to have learning disabilities. 37:01.795 --> 37:04.478 [SPEAKER_00]: He's always going to be the smallest kid in the room, his age. 37:09.245 --> 37:10.487 [SPEAKER_00]: I see y'all know him too. 37:13.555 --> 37:15.537 [SPEAKER_00]: There's going to be all these problems he has. 37:16.618 --> 37:17.719 [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, I just want to say this. 37:17.759 --> 37:19.040 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm so thankful for nurses. 37:19.060 --> 37:20.121 [SPEAKER_00]: I was thankful for doctors. 37:20.721 --> 37:21.842 [SPEAKER_00]: So thankful for them. 37:21.862 --> 37:24.464 [SPEAKER_00]: Dr. Map over here is incredible. 37:25.365 --> 37:29.609 [SPEAKER_00]: Shantel is a midwife, delivers babies. 37:29.649 --> 37:31.210 [SPEAKER_00]: We're so thankful for people like that. 37:31.971 --> 37:32.872 [SPEAKER_00]: And they were incredible. 37:32.892 --> 37:34.693 [SPEAKER_00]: Holly was actually in the room when just I was wrong. 37:34.713 --> 37:36.155 [SPEAKER_00]: We didn't know each other yet, but she was in the room. 37:36.515 --> 37:38.297 [SPEAKER_00]: So she can verify everything I'm telling you is the truth. 37:38.317 --> 37:43.461 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not evangelistically speaking. 37:44.588 --> 37:52.587 [SPEAKER_00]: That nurse walked away from telling us that, and I looked at Miranda and I said, I'm thankful for them, but we don't receive that. 37:55.553 --> 38:01.467 [SPEAKER_00]: Because when this baby comes, our faith is going to new levels. 38:01.565 --> 38:02.507 [SPEAKER_00]: Why am I telling you the story? 38:03.149 --> 38:04.252 [SPEAKER_00]: I know like you heard the story from. 38:04.412 --> 38:06.758 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not just telling you the story just to tell you the story. 38:06.778 --> 38:08.242 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm telling you the story because of this. 38:08.522 --> 38:14.818 [SPEAKER_00]: Whenever you get a word, whenever you get a word and it is true, you hold fast to what is good. 38:15.440 --> 38:15.740 [SPEAKER_00]: Why? 38:15.981 --> 38:17.565 [SPEAKER_00]: Because there's gonna come a day, 38:17.545 --> 38:25.681 [SPEAKER_00]: where you're going to face something that's going to look completely opposite of what the word is, and in that moment you know what you do, you don't believe what you're seeing. 38:25.921 --> 38:32.855 [SPEAKER_00]: You stand fast on the word, and you like Timothy, way to good warfare with the prophecies that have gone over your life. 38:32.875 --> 38:34.478 [SPEAKER_00]: You hold fast to what is good. 38:34.758 --> 38:37.283 [SPEAKER_00]: Decided to spend six weeks in the NICU. 38:37.584 --> 38:39.688 [SPEAKER_00]: He spent six days in the NICU. 38:39.668 --> 38:44.855 [SPEAKER_00]: Josiah today is nearly six foot tall and has a 13 size shoe. 38:45.155 --> 38:50.342 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen, that may be one report from man, but I've got a word that says something different. 38:50.362 --> 38:57.752 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm so thankful that the unmuted voice spoke over my life and it was a better word than my experience. 38:57.993 --> 39:09.388 [SPEAKER_00]: It was a better word than what I saw because I am living proof and he is living proof that God is 39:09.368 --> 39:38.380 [SPEAKER_00]: brings resurrection lies, send up to your feet this morning.