School Of The Prophets 18th Oct-1st Nov 2010
SCHOOL OF THE PROPHETS 2010 SESSION 37 to 38
Hearing the voice of God
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Session 37-30th Oct. Hearing the voice of God. Joh 10:4 "And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. (NKJV) My sheep hears My voice. The sheep will not follow the voice of strangers. There are 7 different voices:1. There voice of the human body including pain, thirst, hunger, cravings 2. The voice of the human mind, human reasoning, fears, cares, anxieties, worries 3. The voice of other men, counsel, opinions, thoughts, philosophies, doctrines, theories, politics, writings and books 4. The voice of demonic spirits- they communicate to your spirit through your mind. 5. The voice of your recreated spirit.- The voice of Jesus in you. There are different levels of maturity in this and you have to discern between good and evil. 6. The voice of the inner witness-the Holy Spirit teaches our spirit. 7. The inner voice of the Holy Spirit.- The inner voice is the very high level of communication.
10 identification marks of the inner voice of the Holy Spirit. Isa 30:21 Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it," Whenever you turn to the right hand Or whenever you turn to the left. (NKJV)
The Inner Voice of the Holy Spirit. a. It is the clear oracles of God. •
They are statements without elaboration or introduction and suggestions. He commands us. There are simple statements or commands.
b. It provides directions and instructions. Compiled by Roy Lim
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When you hear Him you know what to do and how to do it. When you do it all things will fall into place.
c. It is authoritative. •
It is not authoritarian but it is spoken from a position of authority. It is not vulgar or rude. It does not threaten.
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It does not crush you but liberates you and does not crush you.
d. It is audible within your spirit. •
It is a voice and you heard it in your mind. It is a voice which you can hear. It is not sensing but it is so loud in you that you can hear it.
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We must think of good thinks. Php 4:7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Php 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy--meditate on these things. Php 4:9 The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you. (NKJV)
e. It is louder than your thoughts. •
When you are thinking it overrides your thinking and speaks to you.
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If you keep thinking of your fear, it will only give strength to it. You are not supposed to think your own thoughts but set your mind on things that are above.
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It speaks to us to arrest us from decline. Many of us just think of everything around us. Only take in things that you need to think of. You need to engage your mind to read certain things and not think of it. Do not store everything.
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It will always be in line with God’s word already learnt.
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Whatever you learnt will not change. Example:- Marriage and divorce. If stealing is wrong at the age of 2 it is still wrong at the age of 20.
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Truth is truth and it will not change. God may change in direction but not in principles.
g. It is always progressive revelation. •
He will restart the conversation He left off. He picks up the last statement and you come back to the very spot of the last conversation or revelation.
h. It is a firm but loving voice. •
His love does not over shadow the demand of that word. God’s love does not interfere with the requirements of His word and demands. His love will find a way to help us but His demand will push us.
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It is a constant yet familiar voice.
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You feel that you have heard it before. You can identify it.
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It is a masculine voice.
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It is a male voice. Women can hear it well because they can identify it clearly and they respond very quickly.
Session 38-30th Oct Inner Witness of the Holy Spirit. He leads us into all truth and be our personal teacher so that we can sit for the exam. The Holy Spirit is mature and so it is our spirit that needs to mature so that more of Christ is formed. Ro 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. Ro 8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father." Ro 8:16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, Ro 8:17 and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. (NKJV) a. The inner witness is the activity of the Holy Spirit that teaches our spirit to respond to the Holy Spirit messages and impression. •
He leaves an impression, pressing upon us to respond.
b. The inner witness teaches us to function the way He wants so that we can do what is pleasing to His sight. Compiled by Roy Lim
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c. He leads us by activating impressions, sensations and feelings in our spirit realm giving us indications of His likes and dislikes. d. The inner witness of the Holy Spirit confirms we are sons and that God is relating to us as sons and we are relating to Him as a Father. e. The inner witness of the Holy Spirit is to train us to be led by the Spirit of God and not the spirit of slavery to fear again. •
He will lead us to cry ‘Abba’ Father.
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The inner witness assures and testifies with our spirit that we have great inheritance that we are heirs and joint heirs with Christ.
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He will impress and put hope in our hearts.
g. The inner witness judges our action and reaction to see if they be from God. •
Teach us to discern good and evil.
h. The inner witness of our spirit is to train us until Christ likeness is formed. •
There is travailing until we become Christ like.
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The inner witness of our spirit is to train our spirit to pray according to the will of God. Ro 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Ro 8:27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. (NKJV)
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The inner witness helps us to identify that the presence of God is with us and He is for us.
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It will assure us of the presence of God.
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School Of The Prophets 18th Oct-1st Nov 2010 The Holy Spirit Trains Our Spirit to Function in 3 Dimensions. a. Intuition•
The ability to learn the pathway of the spirit to receive a message of the Spirit. He is training us for life and Godliness.
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Sometimes they call it premonition or sixsence. Revelations and inside comes from obedience to the inner witness. Without intuition we do not know the insight to obey. The things of the Spirit become clearer. You cannot see the ways of the Spirit but you can feel.
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Those not born again do not have the Holy Spirit to train them in this area though they sense things but sometimes with inaccuracy. Human spirits are designed to pick up spirits.
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Learn directly from the Holy Spirit because He is the best teacher. He can communicate what God is saying to us.
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The Holy Spirit trains us to respond to God’s presence. He teaches you the protocols. He trains our spirit to relate to Him as a Father when He comes as a Father with adoration. He teaches us the accurate respond.
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In the area of communion and worship. We will know how close He is or how far is He. We will be able to measure the presence.
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He trains our spirit to be sensitive to His presence
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He places within our spirit the desired response to please Him
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He helps us identify the manifested presence of God is increasing or decreasing
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The Holy Spirit will cause our spirit to employ, inspire and lead our body and emotions to respond to God. •
The whole body is charged up with excitement. We need to be motivated by what is inside and not outside. Our respond must be from inside.
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The holy Spirit teaches us creatively to be spontaneous in our respond to God.
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The Holy Spirit will help your spirit to discern other dimension of the spirit world so that you only worship One.
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We can discern when it is Jesus, the Holy Spirit or the Father so that we will offer the right type of worship
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When the Father arrives there will be such an adoration and friendship.
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When Jesus is there you find that you just want to magnify Him. You just want to exalt and lift Him up.
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When the Holy Spirit gets closer and closer you feel that you can do so many things. You just have a sense of confidence rising inside you.
You will know the level of maturity of a son and in which you are. •
You will know if you are a babe, a youth , a young men or an adult. You will not demand a higher of relationship more than your maturity. Even if you r mind wants it your maturity may not want it.
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He helps our spirit to become tune.
c. Conscience. •
Our conscience is the area where the approval or disapproval of our thoughts, actions, motives and relationships are given because this is the area where God’s light and truth abounds. The Holy Spirit trains this function of our spirit.
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All the information is going to our mind. In our spirit. The Spirit has a function to bring to light in our conscience. It has to do with the values that have been placed on us.
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A lot of things that people has said may not be quotations of the Bible but they are values that we can them in our conscience. We can gain wisdom and accuracy in our behavior and it change our posture. All these things become light for our journey.
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When there is not enough light in our conscience to teach us then we will need others on the outside to teach us and to correct us. We need to be governed internally and not externally.
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Session 40-1st Nov. Voice of the Recreated Spirit. Ro 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. (NKJV) We have two dimensions of the Spirit; one is the Spirit of Christ and the other is the Holy Spirit. If we do not have His Spirit we do not belong to Him. When we are in the Holy Spirit, we are in Him in person. Both are real; one in our level in person and the other is in Him. The Spirit of Christ is the person of Christ. When we are born again our spirit is recreated in the image and His likeness. Eze 36:26 "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. Eze 36:27 "I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. (NKJV) The temple of Ezekiel was never built because it was a dimension in heaven. Jesus breathed upon His disciples His Spirit. Joh 20:20 When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Joh 20:21 So Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you." Joh 20:22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. (NKJV) You need to receive this to receive that. You receive the Spirit of Christ to receive the Holy Spirit. They were receiving the Spirit of Christ. Ge 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. (NKJV) 1Co 15:45 And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. (NKJV)
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School Of The Prophets 18th Oct-1st Nov 2010 We are life giving Spirit but many place their importance on their emotions and soul. They love their emotions. They are emotional Soul- emotions, feelings and the will. We after the ministry of Christ and we are the life giving spirit and we are taking upon His image and likeness and inside of we are not looking for just signs on the outside. Christ is in us and we carry His nature and we belong to Him. The nature of Christ is in us but we still have sin habits that we need to deal with. We must get our minds renewed or else we will still remain the same. Ro 8:10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. (NKJV) Anything produced without Christ is dead. You need to give life back. You have to use this dimension of the Spirit to give life back and quicken your body to life. You need to let your body get use to the Spirit instead of death. Our spirit is alive because of the Spirit of Christ. Ro 8:3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, Ro 8:4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. (NKJV) The spirit of man must be born again so that the Son can live inside because the Son cannot see corruption. Ro 8:10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. Ro 8:11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. (NKJV) The holy charged your body with life and there is life. Your body, mind and soul will come alive. They come alive not because the messenger says so but we are doing it. Ro 8:13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. (NKJV) The outcome of your deeds but if you continue to put to death the flesh then life will come. Resurrection power will be in you. Ro 8:23 Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. (NKJV) The adoption of son in when we live no longer to the spirit of slavery. When we shut down death, we give life to our body. We cannot come into the adoption of sons until we take this body back. There was nothing in the body that could hold Jesus down. Compiled by Roy Lim
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School Of The Prophets 18th Oct-1st Nov 2010 Ro 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. (NKJV) People are born again but they have not come into adoption. We cannot enter into our inheritance if we are still struggling with our emotions; with our flesh. Ro 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. (NKJV) The whole process of coming into sonship is necessary because creation is longing for us to come into the adoption of sons. Sin nature has corrupted us to pollute the environment so that creation is groaning for us to manifest the Son. We have been recreated in the Spirit of Jesus and we have the potential of the nature of Christ and so we have the voice of that Spirit in us. Adam could not sense the spirit of the devil because the devil came in the form of a serpent. If the devil came as the spirit Adam would have sensed him because He could sense God coming to him. Your spirit has a voice. It is not the voice of the Holy Spirit but your spirit recreated. The voice of the recreated spirit:a. The voice of the recreated spirit is innocent. •
You do not have to ask what to wear or eat. That is not innocent but stupid.
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It must be train to discern between good and evil and the trainer is the Holy Spirit.
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You have to guide your desire.
b. The voice of the recreated spirit is heard in the mind. 2Cor 2. •
The thoughts of man come from the Holy Spirit.
c. The voice of the recreated spirit can be divinely energized by the empowering of the Holy Spirit. Heb 13:5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." (NKJV) •
When you speak the Holy Spirit is speaking. You become the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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d. The voice of the Spirit can carry the revelation of the Holy Spirit with insight and understanding. •
It can bring understand to man. It can be profound but you can make truth simple and plain.
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There comes a time when your voice and the voice of the Holy Spirit becomes one.
e. The spirit of man has capacity to walk with God and fellowship with Him. •
His voice can draw the presence of God. When you call it will be like the Son calling.
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The voice of the recreated spirit expresses the nature within.
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Your voice will translate the inner nature.
g. It can be influenced by random thoughts thereby manifesting a different nature. •
One is God and the other is confusion. In your spirit is God and in your mind is concern. You love your brother but your mind can be corrupted by negative thoughts and your voice can carry both in your voice.
Session 41-1st Nov. How to differentiate God’s though and human thoughts. We always make decision by what we receive rather than what we know. What we know has been tailored by our own lifestyle. What we know has become too familiar and we do not value it to change with it. When we hear a message afresh we take it out to polish it. We need to go for the heart wit every message. Today when we hear His voice we must not harden our hearts or be tickled but we need to be challenged even if it is words that we have heard before. We need to cut out sometime to work into the 8 aspects of our lives. a. Inspired thoughts are fresh and often effortless. •
It just comes to you.
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School Of The Prophets 18th Oct-1st Nov 2010 b. This spontaneous thoughts flow into our mind when our spirit is highly activated. •
These are God’s thoughts coming in.
c. Spontaneous thoughts are received but not because of conclusions or reasoning or thinking processes or meditation. •
It must coming into conclusion. It is worked upon.
d. All inspired thoughts are God ward and they desire to please God and fulfill His plan. •
They look and direct you towards God. It will move you closer to Christ. Anything that tales you away are not from God.
e. Inspired thoughts are not inward looking because they speak to our spirit potential. •
They are always uplifting. They inspired our faith.
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Inspired becomes clearer as you meditate on it.
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The more you think of it God gives you better clarity and understanding.
g. Inspired thought often carry the revelation future things to come. •
They tell you of the better future and potential.
Reasons Why God Will Speak To Us Further. Lu 8:18 "Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him." (NKJV) a. How you listen will be the prerequisite for Him to speak to you further. •
Your respond will determine it.
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b. He will speak further to you because you activate what you already hear. • •
Whoever has more will be given. The more you obey the more He will speak. When you act on God’s word it will be like a jigsaw puzzle that will come into place. If we do not act it, the rest of the pieces is useless. It cannot complete the picture. It is either we fix everything by obedience to what He had spoken or we will never complete it.
c. He speaks to us because He choose to speak to us. •
It is His mercy. Isa 50:4 "The Lord GOD has given Me The tongue of the learned, That I should know how to speak A word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear To hear as the learned. Isa 50:5 The Lord GOD has opened My ear; And I was not rebellious, Nor did I turn away. (NKJV) He trains our ears to hear so that we will become obedient.
d. He speaks to us because He wants us to speak of His behalf. Isa 50:4 "The Lord GOD has given Me The tongue of the learned, That I should know how to speak A word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear To hear as the learned. Isa 50:5 The Lord GOD has opened My ear; And I was not rebellious, Nor did I turn away. (NKJV) He wants us to bring to alignment all things. We speak to clear the way. •
When we speak the ancient boundaries will be set. If we do not speak people will have no boundary. When you do not speak then the people will be lawless.
e. God will speak to you when you set up the portal of obedience. 1Sa 3:7 (Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, nor was the word of the LORD yet revealed to him.) 1Sa 3:8 And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. Then he arose and went to Eli, and said, "Here I am, for you did call me." Then Eli perceived that the LORD had called the boy. 1Sa 3:9 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, "Go, lie down; and it shall be, if He calls you, that you must say, 'Speak, LORD, for Your servant hears.'" So Samuel went and lay down in his place. Compiled by Roy Lim
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School Of The Prophets 18th Oct-1st Nov 2010 1Sa 3:10 Now the LORD came and stood and called as at other times, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel answered, "Speak, for Your servant hears." 1Sa 3:11 Then the LORD said to Samuel: "Behold, I will do something in Israel at which both ears of everyone who hears it will tingle. (NKJV) •
Eli gave Samuel the access for God to speak.
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God will speak because He wants to reveal His nature and Himself to us. 1Sa 3:7 (Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, nor was the word of the LORD yet revealed to him.) (NKJV) 1Sa 3:21 Then the LORD appeared again in Shiloh. For the LORD revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD. (NKJV)
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By conversation we know Him.
g. God speaks to us because He wants to establish us as His mouth piece and be His voice in the land. •
Samuel became the voice in the land. Elijah was the voice of God in the land.
7 ways how God’s prophetic word and prophecy can come to you. a. God will give you the full oracle to speak. •
All you need to say is given to like a dictation. Every word is give.
b. When God gives you the first sentence of the message and when you speak it all other s will follow. •
When you start, it will all begin to flow. Many people want to do and not to say what God wants to say.
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The first 3 gifts are the oracle gifts; the last 3 are doing gifts.
c. Prophecy can through a sensing in the spirit. •
You put all the sensing into words and that becomes prophecies.
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If you sense the negative do not say it but bring it out in a positive way. When you feed the negatives the negatives will be stronger. Feed the positive and starve the negative. Lift up the positive as a standard.
d. He gives to us through a vision. •
When you verbalized your vision it becomes a prophecy. When you have a vision and interpretation you give an understanding to it, it becomes a message.
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There are many interpretations to a vision but you must choose the right one.
e. Prophecy can come through a song. •
The song can be a message to you. The postman comes with a letter with an envelope but you need to find the phrase, line or word that is the message. Find out when your spirit is activated, that is the word.
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Prophecies can through the scripture.
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You can read the word until His voice is heard. Sometimes through the remembrance of the word. Work on these.
g. Prophecies can come through the activation of another’s man spirit. •
When Papa speaks our spirit is activated and something of the message will touch us and stir something in us.
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Iron sharpens iron and sparks will come. Keep hearing messages from men of the spirit. We need sparks to ignite fire.
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When the work is done it becomes easier and easier. When we become competent the work will be done faster.
There are many ways how God can speak to us. There many avenues so we cannot say that we do not hear from God. When you hear God’s word and declare it, it will put a limit to the works of the enemy. The famine of God’s word is over in your life. Your ears and heart is going to be open so that everything the Father wants to say will be heard. Use the portal of obedience to operate in this area.
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