Jim Bakker Show - New Era of Prophecy -  Larry Sparks on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2019-01-21
Duration: 04:55


=== Revival After Revival (03:52) ===

[00:00:00]  That's excellent the way you put it.
[00:00:02]  Larry, what is the new era you're talking about?
[00:00:05]  Well, for 2,000 years, I mean, I'm a little bit of a revival history kind of geek.
[00:00:10]  I don't know how else to say it.
[00:00:11]  I got my Master of Divinity from Regent studying church history and renewal.
[00:00:15]  And for the last 2,000 years, we've been in a season where we've seen revival after revival, awakening after awakening.
[00:00:21]  And a lot of them have not been sustained.
[00:00:23]  A lot of them you see, they start in this year and they end in this year.
[00:00:26]  And I'm like, God, why aren't we seeing revival sustained?
[00:00:29]  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.
[00:00:36]  I'm like, God, I don't want hype.
[00:00:38]  I don't want something that's repackaged in new language that we've been saying year after year after year.
[00:00:43]  Because can I just, I'm going to have a therapy moment right here on stage.
[00:00:45]  Like, as a prophetic person, a prophet, for the last several years, just being honest, okay?
[00:00:51]  We need to be honest about this stuff.
[00:00:52]  Yes.
[00:00:53]  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.
[00:00:59]  And I feel like I'm hearing the same word year after year, maybe repackaged in different language, of course.
[00:01:05]  And I'm like, God, why aren't they happening?
[00:01:07]  Why aren't they coming to pass?
[00:01:09]  And I started getting aggravated and frustrated.
[00:01:10]  And the Lord said, Larry, the prophets will prophesy.
[00:01:14]  And I'm like, okay, that's a no-brainer.
[00:01:15]  Of course, the prophets will prophesy.
[00:01:16]  He said, no, the prophets will keep prophesying.
[00:01:19]  They will keep saying what I'm saying until people actually partner with the prophetic words.
[00:01:24]  Until my church, until my people actually live, think, function, act, and pray like that prophetic word is actually true.
[00:01:32]  Because a prophetic word is conditional.
[00:01:34]  New Testament prophetic word, there are some things that, you know, Jesus is coming back.
[00:01:38]  You can vote yes, you can vote no.
[00:01:40]  Jesus is coming back.
[00:01:41]  That is an established, set-in-time prophetic word.
[00:01:44]  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.
[00:01:51]  There is a responsibility.
[00:01:53]  There is an obedience.
[00:01:54]  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.
[00:02:01]  I said, okay.
[00:02:01]  He said, look at Genesis 12 with Abram.
[00:02:04]  Abram gets a word of the Lord.
[00:02:06]  God tells him to go somewhere.
[00:02:07]  He tells him to leave his family, leave that country and go to a different place.
[00:02:10]  God gives him an instruction.
[00:02:12]  God gives him this amazing promise.
[00:02:14]  I'll bless you.
[00:02:15]  I'll make you a great nation.
[00:02:16]  And you know, we love those prophecies and promises of blessing.
[00:02:19]  We love the prophecies that tell us of all the great things God is going to do.
[00:02:23]  And then we get frustrated.
[00:02:25]  Why isn't happening?
[00:02:26]  Well, Abram answers the question.
[00:02:28]  You know what he did?
[00:02:28]  It says, he did as the Lord instructed.
[00:02:32]  He did as the Lord instructed.
[00:02:34]  So that's why we have this prophetic words 2019 book.
[00:02:37]  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.
[00:02:48]  Because you know what?
[00:02:49]  We've been in a new era since Pentecost.
[00:02:51]  Pentecost was a new era 2,000 years ago when the Holy Spirit came and was released into the earth.
[00:02:57]  Here's the deal: we've had revival after revival, awakening after awakening.
[00:03:01]  Why aren't we seeing things sustained?
[00:03:03]  Every revival was an invitation for the church to actually change its wineskin.
[00:03:09]  Every revival was an invitation for Christianity to look different, to actually change its operating system.
[00:03:14]  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.
[00:03:21]  Powerful.
[00:03:22]  Good.
[00:03:23]  Very good.
[00:03:23]  I understand that.
[00:03:25]  Why was it important to put this book together, do you think?
[00:03:28]  I want to represent a community or a collective of prophetic voices that God's raising up.
[00:03:34]  Excellent.
[00:03:34]  How did you choose these people?
[00:03:35]  Yeah.
[00:03:36]  Through prayer.
[00:03:36]  Honestly, prayer, relationship, accountability.

=== Different Streams, Same Source (01:17) ===

[00:03:41]  Anybody in this book are people I know.
[00:03:43]  They're people I trust.
[00:03:44]  They're people I walk with.
[00:03:46]  They're people who I know are two things.
[00:03:48]  They are aligned with their peers and they are accountable to spiritual mothers and fathers.
[00:03:53]  That keeps prophets in a place of safety.
[00:03:57]  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?
[00:04:07]  Yeah, what surprises me and shocks me in all the best ways is that you have different streams.
[00:04:13]  You have different people and different groups in Christianity represented in this book.
[00:04:18]  How much some of the language is similar, how close, how similar we are sometimes when we let we cannot let distinction become division.
[00:04:27]  That's good.
[00:04:28]  Because there's different denominations, there are different streams.
[00:04:30]  Obviously, we all want to stand on the uncompromised word of God.
[00:04:34]  We do not want to go off the page.
[00:04:36]  But there are different distinctives about these different prophetic voices.
[00:04:40]  And rather than see it as a point of division, saying, you know what, I don't like how they do that.
[00:04:44]  I don't like how they do that.
[00:04:45]  If it's wrong and not biblical, then we don't want anything to do with it.
[00:04:48]  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.