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Revival After Revival
00:03:52
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| That's excellent the way you put it. | |
| Larry, what is the new era you're talking about? | |
| Well, for 2,000 years, I mean, I'm a little bit of a revival history kind of geek. | |
| I don't know how else to say it. | |
| I got my Master of Divinity from Regent studying church history and renewal. | |
| And for the last 2,000 years, we've been in a season where we've seen revival after revival, awakening after awakening. | |
| And a lot of them have not been sustained. | |
| A lot of them you see, they start in this year and they end in this year. | |
| And I'm like, God, why aren't we seeing revival sustained? | |
| And now all of a sudden, you have all these people prophesying, Tim Sheets, Dutch Sheets, Chuck Pierce, Lana Vosser, talking about a new era. | |
| I'm like, God, I don't want hype. | |
| I don't want something that's repackaged in new language that we've been saying year after year after year. | |
| Because can I just, I'm going to have a therapy moment right here on stage. | |
| Like, as a prophetic person, a prophet, for the last several years, just being honest, okay? | |
| We need to be honest about this stuff. | |
| Yes. | |
| I've heard a lot of words, a lot of prophetic words, from people I trust and respect, and I know they're globally recognized prophets. | |
| And I feel like I'm hearing the same word year after year, maybe repackaged in different language, of course. | |
| And I'm like, God, why aren't they happening? | |
| Why aren't they coming to pass? | |
| And I started getting aggravated and frustrated. | |
| And the Lord said, Larry, the prophets will prophesy. | |
| And I'm like, okay, that's a no-brainer. | |
| Of course, the prophets will prophesy. | |
| He said, no, the prophets will keep prophesying. | |
| They will keep saying what I'm saying until people actually partner with the prophetic words. | |
| Until my church, until my people actually live, think, function, act, and pray like that prophetic word is actually true. | |
| Because a prophetic word is conditional. | |
| New Testament prophetic word, there are some things that, you know, Jesus is coming back. | |
| You can vote yes, you can vote no. | |
| Jesus is coming back. | |
| That is an established, set-in-time prophetic word. | |
| But it is one of those things when you get personal prophecies, promises that you know are from the Lord, corporate prophecies, prophecies over nations. | |
| There is a responsibility. | |
| There is an obedience. | |
| And while I was here in this wonderful facility, I was up in the room and the Lord's like, I'm going to tell you how prophecy comes to pass. | |
| I said, okay. | |
| He said, look at Genesis 12 with Abram. | |
| Abram gets a word of the Lord. | |
| God tells him to go somewhere. | |
| He tells him to leave his family, leave that country and go to a different place. | |
| God gives him an instruction. | |
| God gives him this amazing promise. | |
| I'll bless you. | |
| I'll make you a great nation. | |
| And you know, we love those prophecies and promises of blessing. | |
| We love the prophecies that tell us of all the great things God is going to do. | |
| And then we get frustrated. | |
| Why isn't happening? | |
| Well, Abram answers the question. | |
| You know what he did? | |
| It says, he did as the Lord instructed. | |
| He did as the Lord instructed. | |
| So that's why we have this prophetic words 2019 book. | |
| These aren't just words to encourage us, although they will, but these are words that invite us and summon us to participate with God through prayer, through activity, through obedience. | |
| Because you know what? | |
| We've been in a new era since Pentecost. | |
| Pentecost was a new era 2,000 years ago when the Holy Spirit came and was released into the earth. | |
| Here's the deal: we've had revival after revival, awakening after awakening. | |
| Why aren't we seeing things sustained? | |
| Every revival was an invitation for the church to actually change its wineskin. | |
| Every revival was an invitation for Christianity to look different, to actually change its operating system. | |
| To the degree that we accommodate what God is saying and doing, that is the degree to which we will step into a new era. | |
| Powerful. | |
| Good. | |
| Very good. | |
| I understand that. | |
| Why was it important to put this book together, do you think? | |
| I want to represent a community or a collective of prophetic voices that God's raising up. | |
| Excellent. | |
| How did you choose these people? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Through prayer. | |
| Honestly, prayer, relationship, accountability. | |
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Different Streams, Same Source
00:01:17
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| Anybody in this book are people I know. | |
| They're people I trust. | |
| They're people I walk with. | |
| They're people who I know are two things. | |
| They are aligned with their peers and they are accountable to spiritual mothers and fathers. | |
| That keeps prophets in a place of safety. | |
| When you begin to research for the book, did anything surprise you or shock you or any of the words that they were sending to you for this book? | |
| Yeah, what surprises me and shocks me in all the best ways is that you have different streams. | |
| You have different people and different groups in Christianity represented in this book. | |
| How much some of the language is similar, how close, how similar we are sometimes when we let we cannot let distinction become division. | |
| That's good. | |
| Because there's different denominations, there are different streams. | |
| Obviously, we all want to stand on the uncompromised word of God. | |
| We do not want to go off the page. | |
| But there are different distinctives about these different prophetic voices. | |
| And rather than see it as a point of division, saying, you know what, I don't like how they do that. | |
| I don't like how they do that. | |
| If it's wrong and not biblical, then we don't want anything to do with it. | |
| If it's just different, unique, and maybe representing another side of the character and nature of God, I want to learn how to celebrate distinction. | |