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God's Prophetic Word
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| Prophecies are still being fulfilled. | |
| And God gave you a prophetic word for 2022 that I believe, as I shared it with our dad yesterday, he said, let him share it because the church in this hour, we cannot be entertained by just one event after another. | |
| We have to pay attention to the signs that the king is coming back. | |
| Yet prophecy is still being fulfilled. | |
| What did God give you? | |
| A word for the church for 2022. | |
| Wow. | |
| So as a dreamer, I'm always dreaming. | |
| But on January 1st, God came and met me. | |
| And in this particular dream, I began to visit certain atmospheres and places. | |
| I would walk into one meeting and everyone was white. | |
| I would walk into another meeting and everyone was black. | |
| I would walk into one meeting and I knew everyone was Republican. | |
| I'd walk into another meeting. | |
| I knew everyone was Democratic. | |
| I'd begin to walk into meetings where I knew everyone was word of faith or assemblies of God, church of God. | |
| So I went to meetings where the common denominator was everybody look like, acted like, and talk like the same. | |
| It was what I would call an echo chamber. | |
| And suddenly in this dream, a curtain was ripped back. | |
| In the Greek, the word revelation can mean a pulling back of the curtain. | |
| So I believe God was giving me a revelation and I saw written in this dream the disease of spiritual nepotism. | |
| At the time, I really didn't understand fully what the word nepotism is, but oftentimes it refers to the giving of favors, the giving of influence to family or friends, but it really has to do, it's like the good old boys club kind of thing. | |
| Because we're friends, because we look like, act like, and talk like one another, I'm going to share my platform with me, with you. | |
| So I see this in the dream. | |
| I'm heartbroken. | |
| Suddenly, the final scene in the dream, a woman comes into the dream who I didn't recognize. | |
| I just knew that she was from ancient times by the way that she dressed and looked. | |
| She was carrying a vase, a large vase full of spices. | |
| And immediately I knew she was the queen of Sheba. | |
| And the Lord spoke to me and said, 1 Kings 10, the queen of Sheba comes and visits Solomon and brings him more spices than at any other time in history. | |
| God said to me, I'm about to release the queens of Sheba to the body of Christ. | |
| I'm going to send men and women who are going to spice it up. | |
| They're going to bring a flavor. | |
| You know, when you, my dad's church growing up, they used to have what's called the hot parties, where you would make the spiciest dish that you could. | |
| And then everybody, and trust me, the bathroom was filled up the next day. | |
| But spices come to cleanse us. | |
| They come to purify us. | |
| And so my prophecy in part for what I believe the Lord is going to do in 2022 is we are about to see an invasion of movements, churches, television, politics. | |
| I don't even want to limit what the Lord is going to do in the arenas, but we have got to get ready to invite individuals who do not look like, act like, and talk like us. | |
| I think it's going to take a realm of humility. | |
| I can honestly tell you what happened to me through my transition in the last 12 months. | |
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Admitting Mistakes
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| I would have never even realized that I was involved in spiritual nepotism until the Lord dealt with me so severely. | |
| So, part of it is me recognizing on a personal level of some of the mistakes that I've made in the past and my great need. | |
| We know that Jesus is coming back, Revelation 7, for every tongue, tribe, and nation. | |
| And we need a tongue, tribe, and nation representation at tables, at conferences, at individuals. | |
| We've got to be humble. | |
| We've got to be willing to admit we don't know it all. | |
| We've got to understand. | |
| Again, even for me as a white guy, the Lord dealt with me so strongly. | |
| Jeremiah, you are trapped in white evangelicalism. | |
| There's no global perspective here. | |
| There's no African-American, Spanish representation in what you're doing. | |
| It has to change. | |