WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Activating The Prophetic Publishing Date: 2019-01-06T05:00:44-08:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/activating-the-prophetic/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 that give you an idea of what the year should look like. 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:07.000 You may have had God directly speak to you over the last couple of weeks 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:11.000 to give you an idea what the year should look like or would look like. 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:18.000 So I just want to give you these five quick points to help you now deal with the words that have been spoken over you, 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:22.000 be it by someone, be it directly or be it through the word. 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:27.000 The first one is, if you have received words over your life, then break. 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:32.000 You can only break silence. You have to break silence before you can break the curse. 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:39.000 Meaning that if your condition last year was a certain kind and it wasn't what you wanted it to be, 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:45.000 then if you have received a word from God, from the Bible, from somebody, from God directly speaking into your heart, 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:50.000 then you must break silence before you can break the curse, because God's words alter the future. 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:55.000 If God has spoken words over you, you must word them. You must word them. 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:58.000 You cannot break a curse until you break the silence. 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:04.000 We receive prophetic words and we even put them up on our wall, but we don't break silence. 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:07.000 We've got to break the silence. 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:15.000 Because God's words alter the future. It has always altered the future. 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:20.000 And so there is a necessity not to look at it, but to speak it. 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:27.000 Secondly, your voice is a forerunner. It goes ahead of you to prepare the path that the Spirit of God wants. 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:30.000 Your voice is a forerunner, as in it runs ahead of you. 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:35.000 It's like the small tugboat that pulls in the large ocean liner. 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:38.000 And so your voice is like a forerunner. It goes ahead of you. 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:45.000 If you think that what God has said over your life in the last couple of weeks that points to the future is from God, 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:51.000 then use your voice as a forerunner to begin to speak so that it clears a path. 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:58.000 It's like if you want to look at the word as a person with a machete going, clearing the bush so that you can walk through. 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:03.000 That is what your voice does. So use it. It's a forerunner. It goes ahead. 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:07.000 This is why God, before he does anything, sent someone. 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:10.000 Before Jesus came, he sent John the Baptist. 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:15.000 Before he wanted to turn Israel from its apostasy to God, he sent Elijah. 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:19.000 Before the rains came and he wanted the world to repent, he sent Noah. 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:22.000 He always sends someone. And why does he send someone? 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:25.000 Because it's a klaxon call saying, hey guys, can you hear? 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:29.000 Because if you can hear, then things can be avoided and things can be prepared. 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:34.000 In our case, it's our voice because God speaks directly to us now. 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:39.000 Thirdly, silence allows conditions that exist to prevail. 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:42.000 Silence allows conditions that exist to prevail. 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:47.000 Has God said something about your future, about your marriage, about your finances, about your work? 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:55.000 Then, well, silence will continue to, silence will allow conditions that exist to prevail. 00:02:55.000 --> 00:03:00.000 And silence in the face of what others say also will allow conditions that exist to prevail. 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:05.000 As in, you will have someone come and say something to you that contradicts what God is saying. 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:11.000 And they are saying it based on sympathy, compassion, and what they have seen of your life over the last one year. 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:17.000 And they come and say it. Your job is to not let it go that way. 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:25.000 You have to speak. Not in argument, not in rebuking them, but saying, yeah, but. Yeah, but. 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:35.000 Fourth, voice the prophetic and you voice God's desire over you. 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:39.000 Voice the prophetic and you voice God's desire over you. 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:43.000 And what's wrong with that, man? He speaks, things grow. 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:46.000 He speaks, things are fruitful. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:52.000 Voice the prophetic and you voice God's desire over you. 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:57.000 I want God's desire to be wrapped around me like Joseph's robe. 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:04.000 And finally, realize that the spirit world is listening. 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:11.000 And any command that I utter that relates to their activity is actually heard. 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:16.000 And if it is spoken with faith, it is also heeded. 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:21.000 The spirit world is always listening. You think right now that the spirit world, 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:24.000 I'm not talking about angels, angels stoop to listen anyways, 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:27.000 but you think the demonic realm is not listening right now? 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:40.000 And whenever, because they're always listening, any command that I utter that relates to their activities first heard, 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:43.000 and then it is heeded if it is spoken in faith. 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:49.000 I said this some time ago. All demonic enterprise is only by permission. 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:53.000 All demonic enterprise is only by permission. 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:58.000 Meaning, any demonic activity has to be permitted. 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:01.000 And it has to be permitted either by God or by man. 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:07.000 All demonic enterprise is by permission. 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:12.000 And so it's with our words that we give permission. 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:17.000 Capiche? Cool. 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:23.000 Of which one? 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:29.000 Realize that the spirit world is listening to any command I utter that relates to their activity. 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:36.000 I'm looking in the Bible for stuff. 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:42.000 The fifth one, to come up with examples. I can give anecdotal evidence, but I'm thinking of... 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:45.000 No, yeah, the fifth one. 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:50.000 Stories from the Bible that would give evidence of that. 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:53.000 Pardon? 00:05:57.000 --> 00:05:59.000 Yeah, but that was a command. 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:03.000 I'm saying when we speak, the spirit world is listening. 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:05.000 I want an example from the Bible of that. 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:19.000 Yeah, Acts 16, where Paul is walking around and he's saying things, 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:25.000 and there is this woman who pretends to be a person who's announcing the things of God, 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:28.000 but she's actually a woman who's announcing the things of God. 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:32.000 She pretends to be a person who's announcing the things of God, 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:36.000 but she's actually a woman who's been captured by a demon of divination, 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:41.000 and she begins to operate as one who's saying these are the servants of the most high God. 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:45.000 And it turns annoying because Paul knows that this is not from God, this is from the demonic. 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:48.000 The demonic realm is always listening. 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:50.000 They have no idea of anything of the future. 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:53.000 They only know patterns in your life and the words you speak. 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:59.000 So whenever they do anything in the future, it's based on patterns that they've seen in your life. 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:05.000 Whenever they predict anything in the future, it's first always by telling you about your past. 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:09.000 Any demonic divination is only by telling you about the past first, 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:14.000 because they know what your father did, they know what your grandfather did, your sister did, your mother did. 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:17.000 They've been watching, but they cannot predict the future. 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:20.000 So they'll always tell you the past, and now that they're hooked, 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:23.000 you or a person, now they can tell you the future. 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:25.000 It's an old trick. 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:33.000 Yeah, Paul I know, Jesus I know, but I don't think they said who the heck are you, 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:36.000 but if they said that it would be right up the alley. 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:47.000 Cool. So just remember this, and then once you begin to voice it because you know it is God, 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:52.000 then comes the part where action needs to be taken, and we'll deal with that another day. 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:57.000 Just hang around for five minutes, do what you want to, and then we'll go into the teaching. 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:59.000 Meanwhile,