Jim Bakker Show - A Joseph Season - Joel Richardson on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2017-06-09
Duration: 04:12


=== Lord's Prophetic Word (04:12) ===

[00:00:00]  When I got past my own feelings and actually started listening to what God was saying, I had to repent.
[00:00:05]  I'll be honest.
[00:00:08]  And I actually did.
[00:00:09]  That's why I said, like Job, I said, Lord, I put my hand over my mouth.
[00:00:13]  You're doing something here.
[00:00:15]  But more than that, one of the things, one of the ways that I hear God is I listen to what God is saying to other people that I respect and listen to.
[00:00:25]  So you're having Perry Stone come out soon.
[00:00:28]  Yes.
[00:00:28]  I was just at a very large conference with Perry, Jonathan Kahn, and myself.
[00:00:34]  Jonathan Kahn will be coming back too.
[00:00:36]  It was amazing in terms of the synergy, the unity of the message that came out.
[00:00:41]  Because Perry said, I want you all to come and bring what you feel the Lord is saying.
[00:00:46]  And everybody independently, we all had, and I know you've heard it from a lot of different people, that we're in this moment of reprieve, okay?
[00:00:55]  That the Lord has given us a window of opportunity, but it's not, you know, Donald Trump has not come to save us.
[00:01:02]  Only Jesus is going to save us.
[00:01:04]  And the church is called to give themselves to prayer.
[00:01:06]  But the message that came out was, it was really unified.
[00:01:10]  Everybody had the same thing.
[00:01:11]  We have this window.
[00:01:13]  And it's a closing window.
[00:01:14]  We don't know how long it will be open.
[00:01:16]  We don't know.
[00:01:17]  Maybe they'll succeed.
[00:01:18]  Maybe they'll manage to impeach Trump early.
[00:01:21]  We don't know what's going to happen.
[00:01:23]  But here's the thing.
[00:01:25]  I do believe, and I'm going to say this, I believe that we are, and actually, let me say this before I say it.
[00:01:32]  This is actually, and I don't usually do this.
[00:01:35]  I'm actually recycling a word from a woman that I have come to really respect.
[00:01:41]  And she was one of the individuals that sort of, when I listened to her, I realized that I was in the wrong spirit.
[00:01:46]  She's actually among the many thousands that you mentioned.
[00:01:49]  She's actually part of the current administration, a woman of God.
[00:01:54]  And she said, and when she said it, it just resonated with my spirit, and I knew it was the word of the Lord.
[00:01:59]  She said, we're in a Joseph season.
[00:02:03]  So, of course, Joseph in the Bible is the seven years of blessing and abundance and preparation in preparation for the seven years of famine.
[00:02:13]  And that doesn't mean necessarily that it's a literal seven years.
[00:02:16]  We don't know the timeframe, but we are right now in a Joseph season.
[00:02:21]  And there are, it's time to prepare.
[00:02:24]  It's time to prepare practically.
[00:02:26]  It's time to prepare spiritually.
[00:02:28]  And there are three prophetic individuals that I keep pointing to in terms of we have this example of recent history, World War II.
[00:02:35]  The first one is Corey Tenboom.
[00:02:37]  The second one is Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
[00:02:39]  And the third one is Reese Howells.
[00:02:42]  Preparing Corey Tenboom communities, Underground Railroad communities, a Corey Tenboom culture.
[00:02:51]  We need to be right now about the business of preparing Corey Tenboom networks.
[00:02:57]  Wow.
[00:02:58]  We need to raise up a Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
[00:03:02]  And you know, I know you'll share.
[00:03:03]  There's a prophetic word that she has over this whole area.
[00:03:06]  We need to raise up that Dietrich Bonhoeffer spirit.
[00:03:10]  He was rebuking and calling out Hitler way before anybody else had the prophetic discernment to call it out.
[00:03:16]  And he gave his life for it.
[00:03:18]  And then Reese Howells was the prophetic intercessor, the one that listened to God and gave himself to prayer and prayed through World War II and didn't stop.
[00:03:27]  And he saw miracles as a result.
[00:03:29]  So if there are sort of three characters that need to define the church in this moment, it's those three.
[00:03:36]  And that all revolves around doing what we're called to do, what the mandate the Lord has given us, but preparing practically in very real ways.
[00:03:45]  You're focusing on a lot of the food products and the survival and all of those things are important.
[00:03:50]  They're an essential component.
[00:03:52]  And then also focusing on the spiritual side, spiritual preparation, because this window that's open right now, it's going to close.
[00:04:00]  I mean, the bottom line is this, we're not just going to, Jezebel may be gone for this season, but if she doesn't come back, there's someone far worse coming back.
[00:04:11]  That's a given.
[00:04:11]  That's the pattern of history.