I wanna take just a few minutes before we kind of jump into that into prophetic presbytery. And that's how you pronounce it by the way. It's presbytery. Everybody practice that with me. Say presbytery, presbytery. Some people say presbytery. Some people just don't say it. But the way you probably should pronounce it is presbytery. And the word presbytery means council of elders or of leaders. So it doesn't mean that radiance becoming a presbyterian church. It just means that we are honoring the biblical concept in the biblical principle of bringing in trusted prophetic eldership and prophetic elderly voices into our church to speak from the outside in both over the church in general and over specific individuals. And so what I wanna do is invite you, open your Bibles to Acts chapter 10 this morning. They've given me 15 minutes to kind of help everybody understand what's going on. And when I say they, I mean me. I'm just blaming myself. I gave myself 15 minutes. But it's because I believe in miracles. Do you guys believe in miracles? All right, then we're in the right place this morning. Acts chapter 10, and as everybody knows, we're in the middle of a series through the book of Acts called Wind and Fire. Acts chapter 10 verse number one. It says at Caesarea, there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian cohort. A devout man who feared God with his household gave alms generously to the people and he prayed continually to God. And about the ninth hour of the day, he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, Cornelius. And he stared at him in terror and said, what is it Lord? And he said to him, your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God and now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. He is lodging with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea. And when the angel who spoke to him had departed, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among those who attended him. Having related everything to them, he sent them to Joppa. Now the rest of the chapter will lay out what takes place from here and it's more than just an event in the book of Acts. It actually is a turning point in the mission of the church and the advancement of the gospel. Because what happens is this individual named Cornelius, who's a Gentile, he's Roman, but he's called a God fear, which means he has come to a point of believing in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and loves the Jewish people. This would have been a conversion that takes place in his heart because Romans are not Jewish, but he's found himself stationed in Israel and Palestine and he's come to believe in this God and he's become generous. And because of that, God answers him. What we know is that he's probably crying out to God out of spiritual hunger, saying, God speak to me. So what God does next is at almost the exact same time, the next day, while this man sends emissaries to go find Simon Peter, God is speaking to Simon Peter at the exact same time. The Bible says Simon goes up on the roof to pray and the Lord gives him a vision and in that vision, he sees unclean animals and the Lord says to him, rise, kill and eat. This is how we know that God is not a vegan because he's calling him to slay the animals and to eat it, but it's more than actually just a dietary comment. That's a joke, so don't send me emails. What God is saying to Simon Peter is that these things that you've previously as a kosher Jew saw as unclean.  And it's not just animals, it's actually people. Those that you have previously considered unclean who were Gentiles that you would have previously described as people you should have nothing to do with, I want you to know that my heart is now open and reaching out towards those people and you're about to receive a visitor. And so while this is happening and God is speaking to Simon, there's a knock at the door and it's the people from Cornelius saying, our master sent us to find you for you to come and to tell him about the way of salvation. And Simon would have never gone under any other circumstances except God had just spoken to him. Simon says, okay, I'll go with you. They go to Cornelius's house. Cornelius has a home group of people who are spiritual, spiritually hungry and seekers of the one true God. They sit down and Peter begins to preach to them and tell them about who Jesus is, how he's the Messiah and how they need to be saved. And Simon doesn't even get to the altar call before God pours His Holy Spirit out on them in that room. They all get filled with the Holy Spirit, begin to speak in tongues, prophesy, and Simon's standing back looking at those that he had previously seen as unclean and seeing God move in their life. Now you say, how is that a turning point? Because from this point on, the gospel begins to make inroads into areas of the world that the gospel had never gone to and would never have gone unless God had spoken. So here's the point, all throughout the book of Acts and in this particular story, there's one reality that we need to grab ahold of and it's this, that God still speaks. God still speaks. God is not a God who is on mute.  And when He speaks, those become turning points in our lives and in His church and what He is doing in the earth. And one of the ways that He speaks is through the gift of prophecy. Lots of ways that God speaks. God speaks number one through creation. Romans chapter one, verse 20 says that God is evident in His creation and He speaks to us through that. He speaks to us through His word. And so we know that God speaks to us through His word. This is the word of God. It is the standard for us. It is the inspired, infallible, authoritative word of God. It is the foundation and it is the plumb line. God speaks to us through His word but He doesn't just speak to us through His word. He also speaks to us through a still small voice which we know in the story of Elijah in 1 Kings 19. He wasn't in the whirlwind. He wasn't in the earthquake. He was in the still small voice and you might say, what's the still small voice that God speaks to me? It's through that nudge.  He speaks to us through that. He speaks to us like this story in dreams and in visions and in angelic visitations. Dreams and visions. I mean, you read through the whole book of Acts and you see God does this over and over and over. Sometimes you dream dreams and it's because you had too much pizza the night before. And that's not a God dream. But there are times where God will speak to you in a dream and in a vision. Joel too says that in the last days, God's gonna pour out His Spirit on all flesh and He's going to give visions and dreams to old men and young men, men and women, free and slave. He's gonna pour His Spirit out on everybody. In other words, God's going to speak to us. And the other way that God speaks to us is through the gift of prophecy. Through the 1 Corinthians 12 gift of prophecy. Now you might say, well, what is prophecy? 1 Corinthians chapter 14 verse three says that when someone prophesies, when somebody is prophesying that they are doing it for one of three reasons. They're doing it either number one for upbuilding to encourage somebody. Number two, they're doing it for encouragement or number three, they're doing it for consolation, for comfort. If somebody prophesies, that's what they're doing. Sometimes if you've maybe grown up in the church and you've seen quote prophetic ministry take place, you have more of a John the Baptist idea of what prophecy is.  That is not New Testament prophecy. Everybody go, whew, thank the Lord. New Testament prophecy is God speaking through individuals, two other members of the body of Christ for three reasons. To build them up, to encourage them and to comfort them. To build them up in your present, to encourage you in your future and to comfort you in the things of your past. This is the voice of our Father. When we talk about the prophetic voice, the gift of prophecy, this is the Father speaking. This is the Son speaking to his bride and it's the Holy Spirit encouraging his people. And it's a beautiful thing. And so today, that's what we are gonna do in just few moments. We're going to continue on with what God started long ago by speaking to his people.  The bride and the spirit say, come. He speaks from beginning to end. God is a God who is not on mute. God has never been on mute. Sometimes we think it's God the Father, the Son and the Holy Bible. I'm grateful for the Holy Bible, but I'm also cognizant of the fact that God's also given us his Holy Spirit to speak and to encourage us. It reminds me of a couple of years ago I was with this guy, I was at a church. I won't name the church, but I was at a church and the pastor had finally gotten a iPhone. And he had also gotten an Instagram account. So he had like moved up in the world. And you know, prior to that, I think he was one of the last holdouts of flip phones. And so now he got a smartphone and he got an Instagram account. And so he was showing me his Instagram account and he said, the only problem is I'm scrolling through and I see all these videos, but I can't hear what they're saying. Says, I wish they, you know, Instagram would like add like a voice thing to it so that you can actually hear the songs they're singing and what they're saying. I'm like, well, you know, you have your phone on mute, right? And he said, what? And I said, I took it. And I said, you have to tap the screen in order to hear what they're saying. And as soon as we did that, he had like volume up to 10.  I'm like, yeah, the whole time you had the ability to hear it, you just had to tap it. And what he didn't know was that he had the sound on mute. You know, there are a lot of us because of what we don't know. We've thought that God is on mute. We've thought that the only way that we can find out what God is saying is by seeing it, that you can see it and you can also hear it, but you have to tap into it. And today, that's what prophetic presbytery is about. We're gonna tap into what God is saying. We're going to invite in a few moments, we're gonna invite candidates that are some of our leaders and people that as we've prayed over the last several months, it's like, God, who do you want to put up on the stage as candidates to speak over? And we've prayed and we've selected some of our leaders and new staff people and individuals who we're gonna call up. We also have invited to both of our campuses individuals who we know that we have relationship with who have proven track records and are very gifted in the prophetic. And we've invited them to come. And weeks ago, we gave them a list of just candidate number one, candidate number two. We didn't give them their names. We didn't tell them what they do. We just asked them to pray and to hear what the Lord would say over them.  And so today, when they see them up on stage, it'll be the first time that they see them and it will be today's the first day that they've known their name.  And it's gonna be powerful. And I promise you, here's the thing is it's not gonna be weird because God's not weird. God's beautiful, God's powerful and God still speaks. What we're gonna be doing by doing that is tapping the screen and letting the volume rise to affirm what God's already said over their lives. And then we're gonna pray over them. And then at the end, we have one couple in each of our services at both of our campuses. Then we're gonna release them into the room to walk around and to give what are called words in due season. So those are spontaneous words. You may have noticed some people walking around during worship, it's two of our presbyters and they were scouting you out. And they were asking, Lord, who do you wanna highlight? Who do you want to speak?   They're not gonna embarrass you. They're going to encourage you and strengthen you from the heart of God as the Lord speaks. And it's gonna be powerful.  It's like, you've been driving around in a Subaru and you just got into a Porsche. So just buckle up, baby. But it's gonna be powerful and for a lot of us it's gonna be life-changing. And at the same time, you may not have been around healthy prophetic ministry before. I want you to know, we know these individuals when they have a proven track record. And I want to say this also, that is some of the most significant turning points in my life and Jane's life. And in our ministry, some of these presbyters have spoken into our lives. And it has been a turning point. Even last night, we were with Pastor Les, or no, Les wasn't here, but we were with Lisa Corley and John Perminsky and Wayne Drain. We were at dinner with them and as many of you know, Jane and I have been going through, along with our family, Ashley and Zach, a very difficult time, the loss of a granddaughter who was born premature and still a battle where we're praying for our other granddaughter who was born premature, Celia. And as we sat at the dinner table, Wayne had a word that he had prayed into and received from the Lord that he wrote out and he gave to us at dinner privately. And I want you to know that it so strengthened us and is still encouraging us in the middle of some of the most difficult seasons of our life, whether it was this one or other times, or even at significant turning points where we've been asking, God, Lord, what do you want us to do? Where do you want radiant to go? What do you want us to do? When do you want us to do it? Those words have come and they have built us up and they have strengthened us and they've become breakthrough moments for us to go from where we are to where we're going. And so it's not just us bringing voices in for you all, we want you to know, I told them last night, I said, actually, we fooled you, we actually canceled Presbytery, we just brought you in to give Jane and I a word today. And of course we were kidding, but in some ways really not, we were very encouraged and strengthened. And it's amazing what can happen when the Holy Spirit speaks. And so that's what we're gonna do today. So wherever you're at, let's just take a moment and can we just pray and invite the Holy Spirit before we invite our Presbyters up. Holy Spirit, we welcome you. Come Holy Spirit, come with revelation, come with wisdom, come with counsel, come with encouragement and comfort and speak to us. And we pray that today you would give us ears to hear what you're saying, not only to these candidates, but to us as well in Jesus' name. Amen, amen. Okay, so here's what we're gonna do. They're gonna bring out some chairs here. And first thing I wanna do is I wanna introduce to you who our Presbyters are this morning. The first one that I will introduce to you is brand new to Radiant. Well, he's been here, but he's never been a Presbyter. I have had the privilege of being a Presbyter many times at his church. His name is Pastor Les Beacham. He pastors an amazing church in Omaha, Nebraska called Lifegate. It's a lot like Radiant. And I think I've been there six or seven or eight different Presbyteries. And I absolutely love this man. He is a statesman in the body of Christ, very prophetically gifted. One of the most encouraging people I've ever met. And he's got a, he's 60 something and he's got a whole sleeve of tattoos of his arm. I'm like, how cool is this guy? So welcome to the stage for the very first time, Pastor Les Beacham. Would you come on up, Pastor Les? And our other Presbyter needs no introduction around here. He is a prophet in the body of Christ. Here at Radiant, we recognize him, both as a friend and a prophetic voice to this church and this movement. He is the Yoda of prophetic Presbyteries. He is the Jedi Knight. No pressure. Everybody welcome Wayne Drain as he comes. And we want to invite our first candidate couple. Would you welcome to the platform Josh and Laura Anderson. Come on up. I have this, I have the same problem. I need a stool for most chairs. Couple number one until a few minutes ago and then I learned you were Josh and Laura. I heard one word for you. The first word I heard really for the first little bit is I was looking at couple number one. It was a word protectors. I saw strength in both that has been forged in battle. You're acquainted with the reality of spiritual warfare and you know that the battle is relentless. But you've also seen that our God is mighty in battle showing his right arm strong on behalf of his people. And I saw you two equipping others, especially families, to be overcomers in spiritual battles. Ephesians 6, 10 through 20 will be your equipping manual and I saw that your love and care for God's people is real. I saw that your modern day Levites at home in God's presence. And that's where most battles are won in his presence. Josh, I heard Matthew 1427 as a life verse for you. Jesus told them, take courage at his eye do not be afraid. Take courage translates to make bold in Greek. God would use you to speak courage into his people and to call them to be emboldened in this hour.  You do this as you speak encouragement, teach, prophesy and exhort people to fully follow Jesus with passion every day to everyone, everywhere that you walk. People of God aren't confined to a building. We carry God's presence wherever we go. Your primary weapons are the sword of the spirit, the word of God and the shield of faith, a man of the word and the man of exceptional faith. And I heard songs of hope and joy coming to strengthen God's people. I hear new melodies bringing attention to Jesus, our protector, our provider, the promised one. Now I heard an exhortation, make it your aim to protect God's presence as precious and enterable. Help people see it's bigger than entertainment or performance. God's presence is central for our life. Be bold. Laura, I saw you with a shepherd's staff alongside your husband's sword and shield. Together you walk in a pastor teach your gift whether you realize it or not. A shepherd's staff or a crook is used to manage, protect and sometimes to catch stray sheep.  It's also an offensive weapon to come against those who would attack God's people. You are, you're fierce in battle. If people got you fighting for them, they got the one they needed. That staff represents spiritual authority and understand you do have spiritual authority. It's not reflected from someone else. It's in you. It's authority to lead, to protect and to catch sheep, God's people when they stray from God's path. A staff is also used to steady a shepherd or on rocky or uneven ground. I saw that you are a mama sheep that wolves should not mess with. Gift of discernment and compassion mingle into the mix of who you are. And I heard the song of the Lord is in you like David's saying as he watched the sheep out by himself at night. What you have sung in private is coming into the public place now. It's time to lift your voice without worry or intimidation or the stupidity of comparison. You carry the sound of heaven in your voice. Spoken, sung, written, your voice has many expressions. Be free to express what you hear to encourage and strengthen and comfort God's people and prophesy a woman, prophesy. I wanna encourage everybody, if you know them and you know the things that are said are really who they are, don't hesitate to cheer them on. And it confirms to us as presbyters. And so this is a participation sport, okay?  So I wanna invite you to step in and not hesitate. You can woohoo, you can hallelujah, you can do all of those things. It's really kinda a heady thing, Josh and Laura, to spend time with you in the spirit before we get to see you. It's really something. And it's a fearful thing in some ways. Lord show us. And here's what he showed me, Josh, about you. That you are a miracle man and that you are back from the dead. And this is like scary to me because he said it could have gone one way or the other way, it was life and death, it was dire. And you're sitting here today as a living miracle. Many had lost hope, but a few people wouldn't give up. And I don't know if it was COVID. I don't know if it was a season of your life where it was like, we don't know what the verdict's gonna be. And whether it was physical or spiritual, a miracle of life back from the dead. I do know that.  This same spirit rose you up and you're living that life right now. You are raised for a reason. You are resurrected for a purpose. You carry hope. You release joy everywhere you go.  And this results in a gift of faith and miracles. And I encourage you, if you're not asking for them, ask more because you have moral authority to ask God for miracles in people's lives. And as you led worship, I thought he's doing it, he's doing it, he's speaking in the spirit what you are having him say that will result in the miracle of transformation. You know God can and wants to do the impossible. You have the gift of persevering prayer. You have clear assignments. One that is especially discouraging to you right now and you're saying, Lord, when? When is this gonna happen? And in the same way Daniel was told by the angel, since the first day you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself, which you have done, your words were heard. And you're carrying something that's very heavy and God says your words have been heard. They have been strongly resisted. Keep asking the answers have already been sent and will not be stopped. He's gonna use you to increase faith for this church, to increase faith for cities, to increase faith for nations. My sense is you have a heart for those and you have faith for them and you convey it. You'll go to many nations, you haven't even visited yet, and you'll tell your story of history and you, the miracle.  Your faith tips the scales to God's side.  As things get darker, you're gonna get brighter. And without even trying, you will rescue many from darkness to light, from death to life. You're one of God's trophies. You need to know this, Josh. One of his victories of grace. You're important in this house. You're beyond important. Keep praying, keep trusting. Share your story, miracle man, life from death. It's Laura. Can you reach over and hold his hand? Cause that seems like a huge chasm there between you. Yeah, we'll talk to the camera guys and we wanna touch them. Okay, here's the scripture for you. It's in Psalm 12, verse six. The promises of God are pure, like silver refined in a furnace and purified seven times.   And you are purified, even beautiful in this purification. What came to mind was the song crown him with many crowns, crown him with many crowns, crown the Lord of love. Behold his hands and side, rich wounds yet visible above in beauty glorified. His wounds glorified. No angels in the sky can fully bear that sight, but downward bends their burning eye at mystery so bright. You walk in the confidence of one who has suffered. You exude peace. You know what it means to follow in Christ's sufferings. You radiate a contagious, consistent peace to people. I'm feeling it right now. An inspiration to many when you pray. Others take note when you pray. Such faith, such resolve. People who encounter you have the same observation the religious rulers had when they encountered Peter and John. They were astonished. And they took note that these men had been with Jesus. You exude a person who's been with Jesus. Your highest priority, your greatest joy to be with Jesus.  There's no religious show standards.  You all love God, people and life. You and your husband will tell your story more and more. Especially to the rising generation.  The church has presented an imbalanced theology of life and suffering which says good followers won't suffer. And you know the opposite of that. So when they do start believing this, then they start to deconstruct their faith.  This works even when you suffer, even when there's mystery. Yours is a compelling love story. Releasing renewal, faith, hope to everyone who suffers. Tell your story. What we experience impacts. Do you have children? How many do you have? Three. It impacts your children with his focus and he'll bring, he said this, tell them I'm gonna bring each one of them through healed, devoted, whole, especially your firstborn. Especially, what's your firstborn's name? Sayla, okay. Especially your firstborn. Be encouraged, both of you. God is using you to tell a story that will transform lives. God bless you. We'll grab that one. I wanna invite Caleb and Rachel to pray over them. And that's pretty good, right? Yeah. That's good. All right. And so we're just grateful for this couple. And they moved here during COVID. Interesting you mentioned Hardings because he didn't even know that radiant existed, but his job had him traveling to this area. They had kept getting the word radiant in multiple different words and formats. And while he was in Hardings and Richland on a job trip, he just Googled radiant, found out we were less than a half mile away, came over here and showed up to a prayer meeting and they moved their whole family down here. And now he's our campus worship pastor here at Richland. So go ahead. We love this couple. We just receive these words. Lord, we thank you for the sword and the staff, Lord, the gift of faith that they operate in, persevering faith and prayer. Lord, the message of beauty in the midst of suffering, Lord, we thank you. We receive these messages like scrolls on the inside. And just as their family here, we say we love them, we celebrate them, Lord, let these words go deep into the soil of their hearts, Lord. We ask from this day forth, Lord, there'd be an increase in the gift of faith, Lord, the pastoral leadership, the shepherding leadership, the worship leadership, the songs. And Lord, we just affirm that word about Laura's voice and her singing and her writing, Lord, that you have put that in her and it will come alive and then Josh, the new songs and new melodies. We call them forth. Yes, God, we just say yes and amen to your word, Father. We thank you for this beautiful couple, God. We thank you for Josh and Laura Anderson and bringing them to this house. We honor them today and we bless them. In Jesus' name, we thank you for your word over their life. Father, we just thank you for this couple. Thank you that you've planted them in the house of the Lord. And we pray that as their roots go deeper, the fruit grows larger. And Father, and the branches expand to the left, to the right, to the north and the south.  We pray your blessing over them and their household in Jesus' name. Amen, amen. Mullets, celebrate that. Guys, we love you. Okay, now what we're gonna do, two things while they're finding their way off. Number one, tonight, what time's tonight? At 6 p.m., we're gonna have a special prophetic service, a unified service, both Richland and Portage are gonna be here. So get here early and get a good seat because we're gonna do some more candidates tonight and have a lot more opportunity for spontaneous words and seasons. So make sure you join us. And then tomorrow night, everybody say tomorrow night, at Portage, at 6.30 p.m. tomorrow night, at Portage, same thing. So make sure that you join us. Here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna release Les and Wayne to move about the room. And if they call you out, just stand up, tell them your name, and they're gonna share a word. When they share a word over somebody, let's clap, let's celebrate it.  We call that a ricochet word. It just bounces off somebody. It's like, bam, I'm taking that because the Lord is speaking, amen? So Holy Spirit, just thank you for your presence. Thank you for your word to us. Pray that we would have good soil hearts ready to receive in Jesus' name. You all look different during worship. I just want you to know this. Okay, I got you, I got you.  Would you stand please and your family here? Do you all know who Jason is, Statham? Okay, all right. As I'm looking at you, as you worship, the Lord says this that, I'm gonna find me here, that your being here is my idea, not yours. And that I have divinely appointed you. Your name isn't Jason, but what is it? Frank, okay, Frank, and with your family. And he says this, this is a place where you can grow very, very mighty in the Lord. And I saw your children actually that here is a place where they can grow into their full adulthood. This isn't to tell your future. And it's a good idea that you've come today and he says you're home if you're willing to be and you're wanted here. God bless you all. You're welcome. Okay, this, are you a family? What's your name? Dan. Sarah. Roman. Can y'all stand up? I didn't write something down for you. I'm on my way to this lady over here. When I came by, I just, I thought they're sitting in the right place. And I heard the Lord say you weren't in the best place. You're on the back row, but God's calling you up to the front row and you're halfway there. But you're in the right place at the right time with the right people for the right reasons. And I think this is gonna be a place that a lot of your dreams come true. Amen. It's been a tough time. It's a new day. Be encouraged. This lady right here in the floral dress, is this your husband here? What's your name? Ashley. Ashley, you wanna stand up with him in case she needs to fall or something. Ashley, a simple word for you. It's just, it's time to move on. Grieving comes for an evening, but joy comes in the morning. It's a new morning breaking forth in your life right now. Old things have passed. You need to let them go. Nostalgia is not your friend. Embrace the new morning God is giving. New opportunities, new vistas to see. You'll see familiar people now with new eyes. God's brought healing. Eyes of hope, eyes of forgiveness, eyes of love. It's time to move on. It's a new morning breaking forth like the dawn. Be encouraged. So just so you all know this, we don't know who the other is gonna talk to. So, but the Lord does. And sometimes he says something twice or three times so that we get it. So would you two stand please? As I watched you worship, the sense was that you have a heart like Hannah that is agonizing for the birth of something, agonizing. And the Lord says that your request is granted. And from now on everything's gonna change. So can you receive that? Okay, receive it from the Lord. Amen. One other here. Would you all stand please? Here's what the Lord has said to you. Tell me your names again. Sarah. Sarah and? Dan. He said, you've shown up in spite of the discouragement. You've shown up. And he said this, it's not your dream job, but God is gonna bring breakthrough into what is your dream in the days ahead, specifically to you. He says, trust me. In spite of your discouragement, trust me. I'm gonna break through. And what you've dreamed is gonna come to fruition. Amen. Amen. All right, receive that. All right, I'd like this gentleman to stand up. And so I get to do this. I travel around to other churches and do this. I wasn't planning on doing it this morning, but when Wayne tells you, hey, you're supposed to do this too, so I'm just out of obedience this morning. But what's your name? Corey. Corey. The Lord showed me that you're a man. I saw you carrying like a military backpack and in a military backpack, there were all the equipment of a special forces officer. And I don't know if you have any type of a military background, but there's a skill set and there's a way that God has wired you that causes you to be a man who understands authority, but also has a really unique perspective and a unique skill set and experience that you've been carrying around in your backpack. But it's the things that God has given to you to advance the kingdom. There's been a season of your life where it's actually been a spiral down and you found yourself at a place where it's like, I don't have anything to offer. But I saw that the Lord has recently set before you a ladder and he says, you're not gonna have to get your way out of this on your own. I'm showing you the way out. And he's inviting you to climb the ladder and to climb the ladder out of where the spiral took you. And he's taking you to a place where you can take the backpack off again. He's going to reactivate the things and the tools and the weapons that he's given to you in a backpack because there's a new season of advancement and there's a new season where you're going to be surrounded by other men that are just like you to help other men. I think there's an anointing on your life to help other men become disciples of Jesus. So God bless you. This guy right here with an Alaska t-shirt. I'm Luke. You stand up Luke. Is this your wife here? Yes. You stand up with him case he starts to fall or something. Luke, I just heard this. It's time to explore again. It's been a challenging couple of years. It was tempting to go inside and shut the door and wait for hope and peace to return. I come to announce the Prince of Peace has been restoring hope. And I see him leading you back outside where many are cowering in a valley of decision. You will go from person to person and place to place like a town crier announcing come out. Stand up for the Prince of Peace is here. It's time to run with him on fresh trails to see things you haven't seen and to do new things you haven't only dreamed of. And I saw you going and finding your buddies and getting them moving outside again to explore to express your love for Jesus in fresh and down to earth ways. What color is your dress? Pinkish, okay, would you stand please? Are you two together? Like for all of your life? Which is okay, would you stand up? Tell me your name. Mac, like mac and cheese. Okay, Mac, like mac and cheese, okay. Here's what the Lord expressed while you were worshiping. He said, this is too heavy for you. And he's sent me to declare peace, daughter. And he says this, I've got this. I'm gonna work it out. Let me carry the burden. You have permission to shift it. He wants to change you from carrying a huge backpack to dancing in your dress, okay, twirling before the Lord. And my sense is, it's a family member or family situation. And God says, I've got this, peace to you. Can you receive it? Jude, Jude Stan, what's your name? Olivia. Olivia.  But I saw you journaling in a journal, drawing and like almost some coloring and some pictures while you were journaling and writing some things. And I sensed the Lord wanted you to know that he knows the pain that you've experienced, that you've processed with him in those journals. And he just today wanted to come to you because I think there's been a part of your heart that's been like, Lord, are you even listening as I'm pouring this, is this more therapy than it is prayer? And the Lord says, no, Olivia, this is the way I've created you. This is the way I've wired you. You're a deep well.  And as you process that in your journal, the Lord sees that and he's preserved that. It's almost like he has a wall of your art that says, have you seen the life and the expression of my servant Olivia? And he just wanted to affirm that as your heavenly father today to let you know you're not an orphan, he loves you. He's got purposes for you and just lean into him, continue to lean into him and fill those journals.  This young lady right here, what's your name? You stand up, Emma? I'll try not to embarrass you, okay? Can't promise, but I'll try not to. Emma, you're more mature in your relationship with Jesus than you think.   How old are you? 13. Yep, that happens a lot, 12 and 13s. A fresh hunger and thirst for God is surfacing in many of your friends. Go to those God shows you to go to and encourage them to dive into faith and to live for Jesus and they'll walk away from hurts and pains that they're going through.  Do you all know each other in this row?  Pretty much, okay. Would you all stand this row? Do you know them also? Nope, would you like to? Okay. One of the most powerful things is agreement. And when forces of darkness agree, they can be almost impossible to break. And we call those unholy alliances. So when we're coming against darkness, we'll often say, Lord, would you confuse the enemy and break off unholy alliances? Because the scripture said when the Tower of Babylon, see, it's the spirit of Babylon that when they put their hearts to agreement, there's nothing they can't accomplish. And the Lord said, you represent in this house holy alliances and that your friendships are more important than you think they are and that they're actually seeds of your future. Many of those who you're friends with, you're going to be in relationship with, in ministry with together doing impossible things because of your agreement. Does this make sense to you? Okay. And so that means it's worth working things out. It's worth loving each other. It's worth being together consistently and calling each other up to righteousness. Now you're representative because there are three girls way over on the other side and there are other groups of you in this room. And if you know, we are a holy alliance and God, if you would have us know each other our whole lives, we're in all the way.   There's sets of two and three and four and eight. Some of you are in ministry school together. All right, father, I pray in the name of Jesus that you give them the ability to see in the spirit and see how important what seems to be simple friendships are and that you give them a view for what you're gonna do in them and through them in the days ahead. Lord, all over this room, I ask this in Jesus' name, amen. Can you receive that, you all? All right, God bless you. There's a man over here that I'm having a hard time getting to he's got a green shirt and a black cap and you stand up and shout out your name. Zach Zachary. Zach Zachary. Is that one name or is that both Zach Zachary? Whichever you prefer. Okay, Zach. I've come to tell you that God does see you. You're not invisible. He does hear your prayers and you can hear his voice.  It's been hard for you to discern his voice.  Go ahead and talk to trusted, mature believers to confirm or to help clarify what you hear and be teachable. You're gonna be a man of vision with a prophetic gift to bring timely words in season through conversational language. To men that just get out and work for a living. You're gonna be a voice of the Lord for them.  Give the Lord your yes to his call and you will win many souls to salvation and be used to rescue many from dark places and destructive lifestyles. You'll help many who feel invisible come forward to dance in the light of God's love. It seems like it's all about the boomers or the millennials and your generation sometimes feels invisible.  It's really important what God's done in your life and you're gonna do some great things for Jesus. Wayne, did you wanna share that word over the church? Let's all stand up this morning. Wayne told me beforehand that he had a word for radiant. He wanted to know if I wanted to read it first. I said, nope, I trust you. We trust you, Wayne, and we really do look to you as a voice over this house, so please share. I heard, I said this early this morning, I heard Isaiah 54-2 through 4a for you. Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back. Lengthen your cord, strengthen your stakes for you will be spread out to the right and to the left. Your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities. Do not be afraid, you will not suffer shame. Do not fear disgrace, you will not be humiliated. I felt to underline key verbs from that passage that the Lord is asking of you in this moment, in this moment that you're mobilizing for a movement of his spirit. One was enlarge, enlarge your capacity to feel spaces he's leading you into from neighborhoods to nations. Stretch your tent curtains wide, stretch your faith. Stretching sounds good until you get stretched and you guys have been stretched a lot. Get out on the forward edge of your faith and take another step and another. Jesus will be there waiting on you. Do not hold back is the other phrase, let the Holy Spirit determine your boundaries. Don't let those dark voices determine your boundaries. Let God determine your boundaries. And then the last was do not be afraid, do not fear. Think generously, heaven has more than enough. Don't think sparingly. Don't be oppressed by what you don't have. Be impressed by what you do have. It's a time to mobilize for a movement. The stretch of your experiencing will result in enlargement of your influence in churches, cities, culture and nations. It's not a time to hold back. It's not a time to let your fear arrest you. But with rested eyes and refreshed spirits and renewed minds, it's time for forward movement as the Holy Spirit empowers you to be witnesses at home in cities and in nations. After a summer of recovery and refreshing, I saw a harvest in the autumn. Prepare the way of the Lord, amen. We love getting those yellow pieces of paper from Wayne. Well, that's encouraging, isn't it, church? That's really encouraging. So was this encouraging? Was this strengthening? Was this powerful? Okay, so we want to do two things this morning. Number one, invite you back tonight at 6 p.m. here in Richland. I believe that with presbytery, my experience is that from the morning to the night to the third day, there's a building up of faith and also of the clarity of words and just the energy and expectation in the room. So I really believe that these are significant moments and seasons in the life of a church. And I want you guys to be here. And I say that not just because we want you present, but we want you fully present and we want us together to hear what the Lord is saying. And the second thing is this, I want to invite our prayer and ministry team to move into place. It's this, is you may not have gotten a word and you may not get a word over the next couple of days, but here's what I know is that God always is speaking to us. And whether it's what God says to someone else, just being in an environment where the prophetic is welcomed and embraced will oftentimes open your heart for God to just speak to you right where you're at.  This is the environment you want to plant your life in.  Our prayer team would love to pray with you and agree with you over whatever that situation is. God might even give them a word for you. So please come and receive prayer this morning. Lord, thank you for speaking to us. Thank you for being a good father. Thank you that you're trustworthy and that your word is true. We receive this and we anticipate what you have for us tonight in Jesus' name. Amen, amen. Church, you're dismissed. Come forward if you'd like to receive prayer this morning. See you tonight.