Conditions | Kris Vallotton | Jesus Culture Sacramento

listen i'm excited to have our guest with us he's a spiritual father in my life we've known each other for a long time uh there's a handful of people that have really shaped my life at a deep level he is one of them and jesus culture just as a whole we would not be here without his influence and his investment and his covering in our lives and so i actually called him i actually felt like we were to have uh him come in as just a prophetic father and and kick off the year for us i just felt like the lord wanted us to do that so we're excited to have chris valatin with us he came with his wife kathy who if you were all here in person we'd stand and clap and do all that type of stuff for them but we're excited to be able to have him come we're all professionals now speaking on camera so we're gonna see how this goes so uh listen i know you're just at home right now but uh chris they're going to stand up they're cheering for you they're shouting for you they're excited would you guys welcome chris valatin as he comes to share the word today chris thanks for coming we sure appreciate it and i'm sure now you've gotten you're a professional speaking to a camera i don't know about that part you're just gonna have to believe me there's a whole bunch of people watching right on the other side of that in pajamas with coffee cups in cars so we sure appreciate you taking the time to come down and just invest in our community and i'm turning over to you it's all you thank you well good morning and if you don't mind we'll just begin with prayer father we thank you for what you're doing all over the world and we thank you that you in the midst of all of this pandemic and everything that's happening that you are actually moving dynamically and dramatically all over the world and what we released today we prayed today for a new anointing for a new season well god bless you um actually banning invited me a couple of days ago to share was kind of a last-minute thing and we stayed in a hotel here in folsom and last night early this morning i had an encounter with the lord where i feel like the lord's given me kind of a word for this year at least it's the beginnings of it some kind of a metamorphosis of something new and i just want to begin by saying i want to call this message conditions conditions and i want us to realize that the pandemic has altered the conditions in which we are about to re-emerge isaiah 42 9 which we've shared about many many times says behold the former things have come to pass now i declare new things to you before they spring forth i proclaim them to you sing to the lord a new song i'd like to just begin with a kind of a message that i've been sharing for a year or so and then take us to a different place isaiah prophesied prophesied about a time where he said there's new things the old things the former things have come to pass behold i proclaim a new thing to you and then he says sing to the lord a new song i'd like to suggest that he's not talking about the next thing isaiah didn't say behold the former things have come to pass behold i proclaim the next thing to you he said a new thing and i would like to point out that if god first of all let me just say it this way i believe that we're in a season that is a new thing and and the difference between the next thing and the new thing is if it was the next thing the former thing would have something to do with the next thing but i believe that the lord is doing a whole new thing and i think that it's going to require a new song let me tell you that i believe first of all i believe that first of all if you've read isaiah you know that isaiah's messages often have two and three meetings like he speaks in metaphors and and i do believe there's something about a song and if i was preaching right now to our worship teams i would talk to them about coming up with a new song for a new season but i'd like to point out that isaiah here is actually talking about a new song in the sense that a new thing is going to require a new song a new way of thinking jesus put it this way he said john sang the dirge speaking of john the baptist john sang the dirge it's the funeral song he said i played the flute it's the it's the wedding song he said john sang the dirt and you did not mourn i played the flute and you did not dance and the point that he was making to the pharisees and the scribes is that you didn't know how to be congruent with the season that you were in and i'd like to suggest that we're in a new season that god's doing something that he literally has never done in the history of the world uh daniel pointed out that in the last days god was going to he that there was going to be a a a season of knowledge that knowledge would cover the earth and and it was hosea who prophesied that the knowledge of the glory of the lord would cover the earth as the waters cover the sea and i'd like to just talk for just a minute about the detriments of not actually viewing the new season with a new song in other words if we emerge as we came into this season if and i'm talking specifically about this last 12 months that literally that if we don't understand that in the last 12 months we were not in hibernation we were in gestation there was something in the ground that caused the seeds of this pandemic and social justice issues and all this thing we're going to talk about it in a minute but in the midst of this of this of this 12 months what looks like hibernation was actually gestation like like butterflies in a cocoon there was something taking place and there's a metamorphosis that we're about to exit this season with not as caterpillars but as butterflies and the pressure it takes to break out of the cocoon has actually developed something in us that i want to talk about in just a few minutes there is a there is a deep concern that i have in that we will not understand that the song has changed i'm concerned that we will exit the way we entered i was thinking about maybe because i'm a business guy i think of business examples and i think of sears and montgomery wards and amazon and i was thinking about how the internet changed the conditions and how i don't know if you've ever thought about this but montgomery wards and and sears have been around for over a hundred years they developed a very strategic and forethinking innovative way to do retail business for some of us that are older we'll remember that there was catalog stores all over in these little cities even our little town of weirville had two catalog stores a ward store and montgomery wards and a sears store and the the irony of that is that they developed um distribution centers this is this is all in this in this hundred year period they printed catalogs now you got to understand this is like this is years you know 30 years 40 years before there was the internet they put all their products in a catalog set up distribution centers had stores and then set up little catalog stores so that they could actually sell their products think about how innovative this was think about how powerfully innovative they developed relationships with all their vendors develop distribution centers in central places in the united states put everything in a catalog and you could order out of a catalog and then the internet let's say 25 years ago came on the scene what would it have taken for them to take all those all those catalogs digitize them put them on the internet already had the distribution already had all the all the discounts set up with all their suppliers and dominated the internet but instead they became sleeping giants amazon came in as a book distributor selling books you would think that amazon wouldn't even had a chance at sears and montgomery wards with all of your dis distribution a hundred years of relationship with suppliers all their distribution centers their catalog already printed all they had to do is digitize it but instead now just 20 years of that and amazon and i'm sorry yes amazon became the giant and sears and ward's wards has gone sears in bankruptcy and what's the point that i'm making what got sears and awards to this amazing place of distribution literally like changing the way people did retail for nearly 100 years they fell asleep at the wheel emerged in a new they emerged in new conditions with the same old way they did business and in short in a short 20 years went broke i know it's a silly illustration but i feel like if we don't realize that this shutdown was not a hibernation it was a gestation i'd like to point out that the prophetic words before there was a virus was that god was bringing us into a reset there was a reset and you'll remember the prophecy that i gave and many others were prophesying the same thing in december and november of 2019 it's just months before the pandemic i i prophesied this prophetic word that god was taking over history that literally there was this the season of providence when the lord would grab a whole of history and that he would hit and that he would shift history in a very short course of time you're saying god caused the virus no i'm not saying that i'm saying god knew there'd be a virus and god always uses what the enemy means for evil for good like joseph was in prison how many understand some people would read the story of joseph being in prison as something that altered the prophetic word that god gave him someday you'll rule but the truth is is that joseph was gestating in prison he was preparing for his ultimate destiny his prison actually became the road to the palace i want to tell you what you've been calling a prison god calls a palace yes i wrote a letter to our donors which hasn't been sent yet i want to read you just a portion of it this year just this year we have felt the effects of the political climate the social justice issues and the covet 19 virus added to the daily challenges we already faced in the 21st century life and leadership this is one of those seasons when you don't dare ask oh jesus what else could go wrong i have to admit when kel i have to admit when the virus struck and the schools were ordered to go online in california just six weeks before bssm graduation i was distraught for three days in a row i woke up and felt like i was in a bad dream yet in the middle of the fourth night i had a powerful encounter with god and he said to me you were born for this hour it so struck me i was probably five o'clock in the morning i leaned over and kathy was completely asleep i never wake her i woke cathy up and i whispered quietly in her ear the lord said i was born for this she lifted her head off the pillow turned towards me and whispered back yes you were mr bellator from that day on i felt like i like we were generals called to fight an epic battle for the hearts and minds of generation who have lost their way and have been captured by the dark prince of hopelessness and despair his strategy is to rip out their hearts and take control of their minds and like any war there are battles lost kathy and i both had covet i laid in bed for nine straight days sick and other battles and other battles are won as we press towards the ultimate victory on earth as it is in heaven in the seventh day of my struggle with covet 19 virus and fatigue so extreme i could hardly walk to the restroom the lord spoke to me so clearly you must get out of this bed and lead you must get out of this bed and lead for three straight mornings i awoke early in the morning and the lord said to me you must get out of this bed and lead this has led to a deep sense of urgency for all of us to arise and shine in this present darkness we become the light and salt to a desperate world i want to remind you as the lord did me you were born for this hour you must wake up and lead you must wake up and lead in first samuel chapter 13 there's a story about the philistines the arch enemy of the israelites and they had been fighting the israelites for years and they had actually taken their cities captive and it says this it says that there were no swords or spears in all of israel for the for the philistines had closed all the blacksmith shops in all of israel the philistines strategically closed all the blacksmith shops in all of israel so that israel could not forge a weapon of warfare they could not sharpen their swords history is repeating itself as satan has tactically closed the blacksmith shops and cut off the supply lines of the church yet in his haste he accidentally created the perfect conditions for the holy spirit to birth thousands of houses of acts all over homes where believers have built their own forges and have ready themselves to become cultural architects that take hold of history and make it his story make no mistake about it the season is about to shift and the battle is the lord's and the world is about to experience the benefits of what we believers have been forging in secret awakened the lord's pulled back the covers on corruption that's been taking place for generations in our country in our world this morning i woke to this this thought black people are sick of the injustice that has plagued them for centuries christians are done with the blatant bigotry that has made christianity nearly illegal the brash assault on christian values performed by the goliath of social media has purposely and strategically muzzling the voice and undermining our values nobility noble convictions are now listed as hate speech well the open hatred of christianity is called free speech the nearly two decades of censorship of moral values has led us to a full assault to deconstruct the family has led to the full assault to deconstruct the family make no mistake about it god has declared war on evil and we have awakened from our sleep to a cultural battle over who will shape history the stage is set the stage is set for the chokehold of the sinister plot to be unraveled for the righteous again to reign in our land we must be courageous and unrelenting and unmoved by the political and religious spirit that has pillaged have pillaged our countries there's a great uh commentary that jesus gave on john the baptist in matthew chapter 11 verse 7 he's talking about john who's now in prison and he said this jesus began to speak to the crowds about john what did you go out to see what did you go out to see a reed shaken by the wind but what did you go out to see a man dressed in soft clothing those who wear soft clothing are in king's palaces but what did you go out to see a prophet yes i tell you more than a prophet what did you go out to see a reed shaken by the wind what does he mean a reed shaken by the wind if you've for some of the the uh uh people the agricultural people or the farmers or some of the hunters you understand when jesus said what did you go out to see a reed shaken by the wind he's talking about you think about the reeds you think about those reeds that are next to the nile river and when the wind blows through the they make a distinct noise and the point that he's making is read shaken by by by the wind is what happens when the the the wind the crowds of people blow through your opinions in other words it means that you are that your voice is the ramifications of people's opinions he said what did you go out to see john as a man who was influenced by the political and religious spirit no john was a prophet he refused to be he refused to be a reed just blowing in the wind he refused to let the political and religious spirit dictate what he will share think about john john john was a pk he was a he was a pastor's kid his dad was the high priest but think about john john preached john wore camel's hair eight grasshoppers locus and honey and he preached in the wilderness some of you know if you eat locusts and honey and you wear a camel's hair you're not going to invite you to preach in the temple he preached in the wilderness now you understand that in those days that the israeli people the jewish people gathered in temples and synagogues and jesus literally preached in the synagogue probably beginning in his early 20s jesus was actually a famous rabbi before he was ever known to be the christ jesus preached if you will in the synagogues in the places that people went to hear people preach but john who was the preacher's kid who should have been in line to be a priest instead of being shaken if you will instead of being shaken by the wind like a reed shaken by the wind instead of taking on his religious duty as a son to a high priest he rejects the political spirit the religious spirit he goes out into the wilderness he wears clothes that have never come into style has a diet that nobody eats and preaches in a place where nobody preaches and you know what the result was it says that all of israel came out to hear him he's he doesn't have a building it's not even a pandemic he doesn't have a building he doesn't have a pa system he doesn't have a worship team he doesn't have a comfortable place where people can sit he's out in the weather he's preaching a message of repentance and when his father's friends the pharisees come to get baptized by john instead of going oh you finally catch it yeah come on in he goes you brought a vipers who told you to flee these days i'm like john isn't even friendly and yet it says that all of israel did you get this came out to hear him what's the point well one point i'd like to make is that even if you're not cool you're still relevant if you're anointed by the holy spirit we got a whole world of christianity that's trying to be relevant by being the same as the world we look like the world we got their music we got their hip jive we got all of that and we're like we will draw the world through our excellent worship our excellent preaching are excellent john's like he ain't got any of that but what he's got is an anointing that's so powerful that people go out to see someone who's not cool and totally relevant i'd like to propose that the lord is putting a john the baptist spirit on the church now i want to be clear i'm not saying the john the baptist spirit necessarily in the message john carried but the anointing that john had it said john was taking the cricket places and he's making them straight john was taking the crooked places and he was making them straight in fact isaiah went on to prophesy about a coming john he said he'll take the crooked places he'll make him straight he'll take the mountains and he'll lower the mountains and he'll raise the valleys and he'll make a smooth weight he'll prepare the way of the lord i'd like to point out that we have to be vigilant but the way forward is not through acts of violence or mean-spirited attacks on political people but humility bathed in prayer and love so that so that deep so that love i'm sorry humility bathed in prayer and love so deep that it demands change from the inside out ephesians chapter 5 paul writes this do not participate in the fruitless deeds of darkness but instead even expose them for it is disgraceful to even speak of the things they do in secret but all things become visible i love this part all things become visible when they are exposed by the light and everything that becomes becomes visible and everything that becomes visible is light for this reason it says awake sleeper and rise from the dead and christ will shine on you awake sleeper and rise from the dead he says don't participate in the evil deeds of darkness but expose them and he says when you expose them everything exposed becomes part of light and then he says awake sleeper he says for this reason awake sleeper i feel like this is a time when we are awakening we are awakening to a new era when our grandparents our great-great-grandparents and our great-grandparents they awaken to a new world like our grandparents who lived before us who endured two world wars and a depression when they left that season they were forever changed my grandfather spoke of the depression and of the world war as a man who still lived it from the standpoint of he didn't just remember it let me just say it this way it wasn't just a memory it shaped who he was forever it's like that condition those few years of depression actually shaped the way he did life the gratefulness that he had for the things around him the strategic way that he handled his affairs the way they the way they took care of their money everything changed the way they took care of each other he talked to me about the fact they even had the ration tires because the for the the the war effort there was not enough rubber to actually make what they needed to actually fight a world war so they talked to me about the way they ration the simplest of things i i i really believe that even though it's been a year and not a decade that we are emerging out of this covet virus of very different people and the most important part i hope you've caught this because this is really the key to my message we have emerged under different conditions if sears and as sears and montgomery wards would have understood that the internet created different conditions they could have been a multi-billion dollar maybe even trillion dollar business but they didn't understand the times and the seasons that the information age changed the way people played the game i'd like to point out that what we think was evil did you ever notice that malachi said in the last days i'm going to send you elijah the prophet what's he going to do he's going to turn the hearts of fathers back to sons and daughters in the hearts of sons and daughters back to fathers isn't it interesting that for at least one year now we haven't been able to leave our homes that the government often has paid us and all and corporations to stay home with our families isn't it seem odd to you or have you thought through this idea that when malachi prophesied father's going home we thought of just a spiritual thing where there'd be a condition but we didn't think about the fact that what caused us to be home also caused us to reconnect and reset i wonder how many men and women who had careers and their family was second and they didn't even know it who were sent home to either work from home or to be home and get paid by the government to stay home and i understand there was lots of other people in worse in different conditions than that and i'm not making light of the pandemic i'm simply saying could you see that what was gestating in our homes that we thought were a prison might have been a family movement remember that in our great grandfather's day we all worked in the fields alongside of our families our work and our family were one like we didn't do family and work and as a matter of fact our great great grandparents had large families because those large families were actually their workforce and while they worked side by side they taught their children the ways of the kingdom the ways of nobility and so on and so forth what do you think happened this year when everybody was forced to go home what do you think happened to workaholics when they're suddenly in a room full of their two or three or four children that were once babysat and now they're with them all day long i'd like to suggest that something is gestating in the hearts of people all over the world that literally there's a family move arising and that we are being awakened to the fact that culture is trying to deconstruct the family and the lord is using what was meant to kill us to actually build us to actually transform us we're going to emerge in 2021 but we're going to emerge into very different conditions the lord has pulled the veil off of evil and you're going to see over and over as we've been seen in the news over and over all the evil that has been taking place actually for decades if you're from america watching this for decades in our country there's been corruption there's been things that have been done under the surface there have been things that have been manipulating our religious system our political system and government itself we see that the huge social media companies that we thought was facilitating our are actually our voice we're actually manipulating our voice and creating only one voice and muslin the voice of righteousness and exalting the voice of immorality we're going to see those things uncovered because the lord is actually uncovering evil right now it's not so that we can talk about evil and put it on social media it's because the lord is unraveling evil and i'm telling you this is a john the baptist moment here's a prophetic declaration that there's a john the baptist spirit in the world right now that is making the crooked places straight is causing the god's people to stop being reeds blowing in the wind and start being people who are blown by the holy spirit wind to actually declare the word of the lord and we're going to see great shifts and righteousness is going to begin to lead again god has decreed that morality and righteousness will become actually the prominent voices in our land and i want to i want to just challenge you right now i don't know where you're at i understand that some of us have lost loved ones we we lost a very a person very close to us just last week to to covid i understand that this uh disease is not a joke it's it's not it's not just a you know some kind of a scheme um or or some you know you know people are exaggerating yes there are things going on that's been politicized all of that's true but we have to be careful that we don't react but respond it's important that we that we take things seriously that we do care about our neighbors and so on and so forth but it's really important to really realize that isaiah prophesied in this about the world he said arise and shine for your light has come for the glory of the lord has risen upon you behold deep darkness has covered the earth deep darkness the people but the lord will rise upon you his glory will be seen upon you get this part nations will come to your light kings to the brightness of your rising in this season that seems dark we were born to rise this is our time we were born to lead like the lord said to me in the middle of my worst season this year you must wake up you must get out of this bed and you must lead i want to challenge you it's time for you to get out of bed and lead it's time for you to leave your home and lead and not lead with a rebellious spirit or with hatred or with or with you know the weapons of our warfare they are not carnal but they are mighty for the pulling down of strongholds we must not war the way that the way the world wars we must bring love to this battle you know jesus uh paul wrote in first corinthians 13 love is patient love is kind love is not jealous love is never fails you know if you if you're struggling with patience don't pray for patience pray for love it's love that is patient it is love that is kind you can't have the attribute without love sometimes we're praying for the attribute and god's like no no just pray for more love for your neighbor i want us to love the hell out of our world i want us to love the hell out of our government i want us to love the hell out of our family and i pray right now that the lord would put a john the baptist anointed on you that you would take the crooked places that you would make them straight that you would take on this commission and realize the conditions have changed behold the former things that come to pass and now i proclaim a new thing to you it's time to sing a new song it is a love song but it's a song of courage it's a song of perseverance it's the song of nobility it's a song of moral uprightness it's a song that says history is becoming his story god bless you thank you so much for listening this is now when usually they'd be standing and they'd be clapping and there'd be things happening but we're in here right now uh can you just take a moment chris we're going to have the worship team come on out and they're going to uh set up we're going to go into worship right now i would love just for you to pray yeah i did feel just even the stuff that you're sharing i in fact one of the reasons why i got to hold you last minute was i just felt like we were supposed to uh just kind of really as we start the year off with that just that prophetic declaration that prophetic challenge and and i know even people that are watching right now that something's stirring inside of you and there's something being awakened inside of you and sometimes you know it is that prophetic call that just pushes us off the edge you know in a good way and uh so would you just um you know as a church we're we're believing god for things we're believing god for the things you're talking about and revival and outpouring and the harvest and transformation and all that type of stuff and um and and it has been a long yes you know it's just worn people down a lot yeah and i think that a lot of what you're bringing is just that prophetic courage as well that says this we're born for would you take a minute and just pray um over as we go into worship right now would you take them in just prophetically pray and i feel like stay with me here i feel like we are to pray for these houses of acts yeah yeah these forges danny did you hear that word like they're like our houses are becoming forges where we are making weapons of warfare that are not carnal yeah but they're mighty and we are sharpening the weapons the lord's given us and we pray right now that every house that's represented by the people who watch this this broadcast this video lord we pray that every house would become a forge that every house would become a forge that every child lord you said that children are arrows in the hands of warriors i pray that we that every house would become a a house of acts a place of miracles a place where our children our grandchildren our moms our dads are forged and ready for this new season like the sons of issachar we would understand the times and we would know what to do in the times lord i release the sons of issachar a son of issachar anointing on people who are watching that literally they would awaken that you would open their hearts and their spirits and their minds to the new thing and they would awaken with a new song for a new day lord that every single home would be a a place like like a holy spirit palace like a castle that is that is a place of refuge that is a a place of of of war that is a place of healing that is a place of restoration that is a place of restitution and law we pray as as banning uh opened today that there would be a great resurgence of prodigals coming home and that that word of reentry where the fathers are waiting for their sons their daughters to return lord we like fathers and and mothers we we we create a place of reentry lord for the prodigals to come home and for them to be forged also in jesus name

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