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A New Room in Heaven
00:03:31
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| The Lord showed you a room in heaven you've never seen before. | |
| Would you please tell us about that? | |
| Yes, absolutely. | |
| And it's quite common, as you know, for prophets to be caught up in this spirit realm. | |
| And, you know, you kind of get used to the viewing platforms in heaven or the business of the throne room. | |
| But suddenly, God showed me the door of a new room, and I knew we'd come to a really weighty, significant place in the heavenlies. | |
| And the Lord said to me, Emma, this is the archive room. | |
| And the Lord was lifting up entire, in fact, there were lots of angels working with him, entire church structures. | |
| They were lifting up frameworks. | |
| They were lifting up scaffoldings that have been around us for years. | |
| That kind of the traditions that you and I actually have derived quite a lot of comfort from. | |
| And God was putting them into this archive room and he was putting them on a shelf and he stamped them and he said, redundant. | |
| And it was so forceful, like we're not going to be able to get some of these things out. | |
| Not that we want things in our lives that God has said are redundant, but I want us to understand in that this is a time for such a cataclysmic level of change that we've got to start to pray and say, God, make me malleable. | |
| God, make me flexible. | |
| God, make me one who is on your side and not on the side of just orthodoxy or just tradition or just familiar, repetitive scaffolding structural comforts because God is changing things so quickly that we are actually prophesying that we're going to live through days that are going to be like a thousand years. | |
| So great is the change that's going to come. | |
| Now, what took my breath away was that God then set on the door of that archive room a guardian protective angel, a little bit like we would read in scripture, guarded Eden. | |
| And the Lord is saying, you will not be able to get these things out. | |
| And what actually, I mean, it took my breath away was that there were some truths that the Lord said, that's not a truth. | |
| That's a tradition. | |
| You hold that as a truth, but Emma, it's not a truth. | |
| It's not in my scripture. | |
| It's a tradition. | |
| And I'm going to strip even some traditions off you that are not biblically orientated. | |
| And then what shocked me even more, Laurie, was that I saw faces. | |
| And I even saw, and give me grace in this, I saw Martin Luther's face go into that archive room. | |
| And God's saying, some of the things, hear me, some of the things that he brought to the earth, I'm calling redundant. | |
| Now, let me tell you which ones. | |
| It's really important. | |
| We're clear about this because he did some amazing things. | |
| He set the structure of our church services 500 years ago. | |
| And that was opening prayer, some worship, a Bible reading, teaching, some more worship and communion. | |
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Disrupting Church Rhythms
00:00:31
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| And we have had that structure of a church service for 500 years. | |
| And we never once thought to question it. | |
| And we never once thought that actually that was a tradition rather than something of the kingdom of God. | |
| And so God says, when I'm disrupting your structure, I'm even disrupting some of the rhythms and the flows of how you meet together. | |