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Creating Prophetic Atmospheres
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| You have a devotional in here titled, Bring Me a Minstrel. | |
| You write about leveraging music to shift demonic atmospheres and create prophetic atmospheres. | |
| Can you enlarge on that a little bit? | |
| Yes, I love this because it comes in the context of Elisha and King Ahab and Jeroboam came to him wanting a word. | |
| You know, they're going to go to war. | |
| We're looking for a word from the prophet. | |
| And Elisha was really irritated. | |
| He's like, I don't want anything to do with this Ahab guy. | |
| I mean, he gave my spiritual father, Elijah, a hard time. | |
| You know, he's putting up with Jezebel. | |
| He's like, he didn't want to deal with it. | |
| And he knew that. | |
| Now, this is really critical for those prophets and prophetic people. | |
| You have to understand that when your soul is in a place of irritation, grief, sorrow, anger, depression, you're in some kind of mood. | |
| You don't want to prophesy out of your mood. | |
| You don't want to prophesy out of your soul, your mind, your will, your emotions. | |
| You want to prophesy out of the Spirit of God. | |
| So Elisha knew he needed to shift that atmosphere. | |
| And so he called in a minstrel. | |
| You know, before I came here, I was over in Kansas City at Mike Bickle's church, IHOP, and I love Mike. | |
| And he's tremendous. | |
| And I'm sitting there in the prayer room, just, you know, waiting on the Lord. | |
| And there's just something about, you know, creating a culture of worship in your own life that opens your ears in a way that most other things won't. | |
| We can enter through the gate of the word. | |
| But worship is so critical because it focuses us so clearly on Jesus. | |
| And prophets and prophetic people, you know, Pastor Jim's telling you over and over by the Spirit of the Lord how critical it is to hear the voice of God. | |
| Put some music on in your home. | |
| Shift the atmosphere. | |
| The devil hates to hear the worship. | |
| He'll flee. | |