Dr Sharon Stone | Seeing with Clarity

preach the word and share your experience don't preach your experience and then share the word and you know that may sound like a play on words but what I really mean by that is not all of our experiences have the ability to benefit others around about us and not all of our experiences have the ability to open a door of Hope or a hunger for others around about us and so there's some things that people teach and train on that we have never been fully promised and so it often brings a frustration in people like the Bible never does promise all of us are going to the third heaven did you know that and yet there are seminars that teach people how to go to the third heaven there are conferences that say we're going to see your eyes open so that you might be able to see the angelic and these are not hokey people these are these are these are people that love the Spirit of God they've had an experience and they want somebody else to have the same experience because it's so blessed them and gave them an encounter with the supernatural but can I tell you this that I believe God wants all the supernatural realms open to you but he doesn't promise each and every one of us that we're going to see angels does that not not so but then there are spiritual experiences that we are called to share and yes they have to be founded on the Word of God but it's those things that have the ability to show God's character it's those things that have ability to show God's principles his laws godly perception it's those things that that cause us to amplify amplify biblical truths and what we're supposed to do when we share those things we're actually giving you a picture and we're creating a hunger on the inside of you to desire to apprehend something similar because you know that God is no respecter of persons and I know that some of you received knowledge and wisdom and biblical truth and then you pursue experience and that's wonderful other ones of you have an experience and then you search out and validate it in the Word of God with wisdom and biblical truth there is not a correct way which one comes first but we need to know in those environments we're all moving ahead is that correct I happen to be one of those people that Paul talks about when Paul says teach and train others that also have the ability to teach and train I am one of those that God no matter where I've been at my life my my lowest and my highest he always teaches me in such a way that it something can be reproduced in the lives of others and I think that's probably more common than it's not but I'm also one of those kind of prophets and not all prophets are this kind often what I go through in personal experience is really what God is saying to the wider body of Christ the church and so as I share some things tonight I'm not just sharing about my personal experience I really believe I'm sharing a prophetic message to you tonight but I would like to share a scripture that the Lord gave me and that he had me start praying from this scripture and I'll be honest with you it changed my life and so my prayer for you tonight is not that you're gonna get a few tingles of the Holy Spirit or you're not gonna just be touched my prayer for you tonight is the same anointing that had the ability to change my life is the same anointing that will even be on this story as I share it with you tonight so can you lift your hands all over the room father I just pray for all of these we thank you that your words are life father we thank you Father that they do cause us to be transformed into your image father I thank you father right now that you are no respecter of persons and father we thank you that you are causing your word to build create and breakthrough on the inside of us in Jesus's name I meant so do you want to know the scripture that God gave me to start pray it is it is it was exciting to me I must have read the scripture for every day for several days because I just couldn't get away from it and I thought oh God must want me to meditate on this particular scripture but then as I did and I started praying out the scripture I realized that this was a direction of my life for a season and so let me read it to you revelations 3:18 and I believe they have that oh they do have it it says I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire that you may be rich and white garments that you may be clothed and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed and anoint your eyes with eyesalve that you may see now I want you to as I read this God different points had different things stand out to me but if you could just imagine having a little bit of a one-to-one with Jesus and Jesus says you want counsel I'm gonna give you some counsel he says you want wisdom I'm gonna give you a piece of wisdom he says you want to know what it is you need to do next let me tell you and he starts out and he says buy from me gold refined by fire that you may be rich and white garments that you may be clothed and the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed and anoint your eyes with eyesalve that you may see all of those things that would not be what I was hoping for or expecting you know I the gold sounds good I just don't like the refined with fowl at fire the rich sounds good but again I don't like the fire I like the white pure garment but I don't like shame and nakedness you know but then he says anoint your eyes with eyesalve that you may see and that's where I begin to pray so I begin to pray this I don't know for how many weeks that I prayed it lord give me I salve that I might see can you lay your hands on your eyes tonight father we just all pray that together lord give me a salve that I might see amen now I dwelt on that verse and I prayed that verse for weeks and then the Lord took me to the verse above it and so evidently I was taking this scripture out of context because the verse above it says revelations 3:17 says you say I am rich have become full and have need of nothing and do not know that you were wretched miserable poor blind and naked now I really don't like that scripture I don't know about you but he says listen something's wrong with your perspective something's wrong with the way that you see things and he says so this is what follows so I'm counseling you how to make this right I'm counseling you and have to buy from me the gold refined by fire and and to receive the eye salve so I begin to pray every day God I want to see God I want to see more clearly God I want a clarity to know what it is you're telling me to be able to do and I want to be able to see I want that eye salve it doesn't mean that I didn't see but let me tell you a secret we're so many prophetic people in this room because this is very much a prophetic tribe you all see you all here you all perceiving sense of the Spirit but no matter how clear you operate in you know you were made for something more than what you're currently operating everyone in this room when you get done prophesying because Bible says we prophesy in part there is always a part there's always a portion of us that thinks that wasn't adequate enough that wasn't powerful enough or that wasn't detailed as much because there is a cry on the inside of each one of us I know I'm supposed to see better than this I know I'm supposed to hear better than this I know I'm supposed to perceive better than this and God says come and buy gold refined by fire come and get the eye salve that you have need of and I believe that's what we're praying tonight so as I was praying that God began to open up my eyes with a greater clarity because that's what he does but I have to say this I was very surprised by what he wanted to show me because it wasn't what I wanted to see okay so this is what he began to show me he began allowed me to see the depth of my own need I was talking to someone this week about a situation that's going on with a child that's getting into trouble and we need to talk to the parents but the parents really don't want to hear about it and I thought oh I can't understand that at all and then I realized I wasn't so thrilled to have God show me the depth of my own need either so maybe there's a little bit of that in all of us that in some places we would rather scoop off of the top rather than to buy the ice app rather than to be refined by the fire rather than to be able to come forth with our nakedness and our shame take it away and clothe them white and so he began to show me the depth of my own soul but he also showed me some glorious things that he has done for every one of us and one of those things that he showed me was the banqueting table that he already had laid out for us in the presence of our enemies and he showed me how the Holy Spirit has already been poured out to comfort us in all of our places of trouble and that he is a ever-present help in time of need but this is where the Spirit of the Lord began to dig a little deeper that was uncomfortable on the inside of me because the reality is many of us are not aware of our level of need and without understanding the depth of your need you could never fully enjoy all that God has for you so turn to your neighbor and say if you don't know that you need help you won't make space to receive it okay now all of us in this room know that the resurrection of Jesus came to make us free all of us in this room know that he came to give us life and life more abundantly but what some of us don't know is that the heart of God is so jealous to be able to provide for you and to be able to bless you the heart of God is so jealous to be able to help you and the heart of God is so jealous to be able to comfort you to encourage you and give you everything that you have need of you know when Jesus won the cross he says I did it it's finished it's all done and there's something that we know that that's true but we feel like somehow it's got to work its way forward in our lives in some way so God says he's given us everything that pertains to life and to godliness and that excites me I don't know if excites you excites me but again unless you fully recognize it and you know that you have a day-to-day need for that then we're in danger of spending our time spending our desires and spending our money on things that do not ever have the ability to satisfy you can I tell you what are the definitions of entertainment one of the definitions of entertainment is to enesta size you so that you rest by not having to think pursue or be focused I believe that there is so much of the life that we live in today that has enesta sized us so that we don't recognize the fullness of our need and so we spend our time we spend our money we spend our desires upon things that never can really satisfy now they don't have to be evil things say most people think oh she's talking about said now they don't have to be evil things but if they don't satisfy it's like what my husband goes to the Chinese takeaway for me I like I happen to like those what do you call the crackers prawn crackers and Greg calls them styrofoam but I mean dip those things in a little curry sauce and you know I like the crunch and and you know I I get a lot of chew for for for not so much calories you know at least that's what I tell myself and so I really like it but sometimes that's what we're doing we think that I've got to unwind to watch too before I go to bed so let me get in a couple hours of TV I've had a hard day and I'm stressed let me let me do fast let me just do fast food I'm not against any one of those things I have some of that every week just not every day and so I'm not against any of those things or we just say you know I just don't have any strength for the day so just let me sleep let me let me do something you notice any of the things I spoke right now they're not sin or someone to say you know I just feel like I'm pouring out and I'm not doing anything for yourself let me go shopping let me do something none of those things are wrong in their own but I believe that there's something that is happening when Jesus says buy from me i salve that he is so wanting our eyes to be open to things that have ability to satisfy what is on the inside of you but again if you don't know the depth of that need that you have you won't ask him for that and we end up being anesthetized by life and you know what that means you can wake up next year in the same place that you're in today look at your neighbors say that's not me that's not me no it's not but I want to give you I want to give you a little bit of share with you some of the revelation that I that that it's going on in my own life I was as I was praying these scriptures one morning when I was in my worship time and if people wonder why they usually can't get a hold of me before one o'clock during the day my husband Claudia and Sterling actually helped me guard my time very well because in the mornings that's my worship and that's my study and that's my prayer time and at you know and then and then I start my day with everybody else as well but I have learned over the years if I don't take it in the first part of the day it gets robbed for me before the day is over and so it is not about a religious tradition or so many hours that I have to do this it's not about that at all it's fresh and it's new every day but it is about the fact that that if I don't give it that time it gets robbed so so one morning when I was in worship it was just such a fabulous moment I entered into a really heavy presence of the Lord it was rich it was beautiful I can hear his voice with a crystal clarity but he was speaking to me about promises that he had put in my heart and his presence was there in such a way that it was anointing me with a tangible faith to actually agree with him and those promises that he had put on the inside of me and so I found myself here I've been praying God you know give me a salve and I found myself at this point where was hearing his voice and I and his presence was so strong upon me and he was showing me the depth of my own need and I found myself saying God I believe help my unbelief and when we are moving forward in the things of the Spirit whether God is wooing you in the spiritual realm or he's bringing you through his his word I believe you always come to a place because it's untried area that you can say God I believe but God I don't know what tomorrow holds so help my unbelief and the disciple sprayed that and it didn't bother Jesus at all so repeat after me say I believe help my unbelief that's a good way to pray it always keeps us moving on now in this time with the Lord in my worship time God actually sent an angel with an invitation note to me in this invitation note he it was a dinner invitation where he was asking me to join him for dinner but you know how when you get an invitation it are asked for RSVP it didn't ask that instead it says do you really want to come and so I held this invitation it wasn't the angel that was astounding to me it was those words on the page do you really want to come and so I answered very quickly and said yes I really want to come but even as I responded like that can I tell you I knew I was responding from the spirit not my own understanding I knew his response umthe ngey / out of me and I wasn't responding just with my my my own wisdom or my experience or even my intellect at that moment and so I said yes I really want to come but when I arrived at the appointed place and remember I'm sharing with you right now an encounter I had with the Lord that I believe that is meant for the wider body of Christ so when I got to the appointed place where we were supposed to have dinner there was a lot of lights on there was a lot of dancing there was music there were there was a lot of people noise chattering going on and in this vision I was very disappointed you know it would be like if Greg asked me to go out for a romantic night and then you know he brought five other couples you know it would not quite be that that kind of time and so you know I felt this and you know that I was disappointed but then through this crowd of people I saw Jesus and he locked his gaze on me and I saw the look in his eyes and it matched the anticipation and the delight that I was filling at seeing him and I didn't care who else was there I didn't want to meet anybody else that was there everything within me was propelling me forward to go where he was at and he had come down off the platform and he was maneuvering his way as quickly around the people to be able to get to me and I was just so excited because he was coming toward me and it was so evident he was happy to see me isn't that good I it was it was this precious time and you said Sharon that doesn't sound so deep at all you know uh you know it sounds like a good experience but what did that do for you when he got next to my side this is what he said for me he says he said to me he's a Sharron this is what your spirit longs for remember what I said God give me eyesalve so I can see and he said I'm gonna show you the depth of your need and now he's saying Sharon this is what your spirit longs for let me go on and he went on to tell me he says you judge yourself wrongly he says you sing it but you don't actually believe that you want me above all else he says you think your desires are not fully for me he says you judge yourself that you're not passionate enough you're not focused enough you're not on fire enough you're not diligent enough you're not hungry enough you're not single-minded enough he says you judge me is that way but see what God was doing was he was revealing to me was that my spirit was absolutely longing for nothing more than him for fellowship and intimacy with him there was nothing wrong with my spirit it absolutely desired him with everything that I had you know when you became born-again you know there was that crave you know on the inside of you that craves Intimus see with God you long for him more than you could possibly know and that's such a glorious thought and this is a simple truth I'm sharing with you tonight and then we're gonna minister but we get deceived in this world and the easiest deception that we take on is self-deception and in the area of self-deception we don't always see what our real need is some of us think our need is for a bigger house a bigger car a better job I think it's God likes for you to have a bigger house a better car and a better job I don't think there's anything wrong with that but I'll tell you what you can live in that bigger house and the soul not be satisfied at all some of you think it's the spouse that you've been waiting for for so long I can tell you that you know I have an amazing wonderful husband anybody that doesn't know Greg you know you're missing out because he is an amazing wonderful husband but can I tell you that oh I don't remember how long we were married but you know you wake up one day and reality dawns on you you know it's not that you quit loving them or something but you think oh I thought they were gonna meet all my needs you know I thought they were gonna you know that everything that was crooked was gonna be made straight everything that was empty was going to be made full I thought it you know everything that was less than was going to be filled up I thought everything that had need was no longer gonna have need everything that needed needed needed it wasn't gonna be there something must be wrong with Greg did you know any one of you that's married could have got up and said that story because when he says buy from me eyesalve he's saying listen I made you in my image and I know what is gonna sad spy you and I have put a spirit in you that is so passionate for me that you don't even have full revelation of and you have this wild passionate fiery hungry focused diligent faith filled spirit on the inside of you that you have tried to tame and rain down he says and this isn't even how I made you let me show you the depth of your need let me show you where you're blind and where your wretched let me show you how you're doing it in your own strength let me get soul's armor off of you and release you to be exactly who you really are and let's see how you change the world and how the situations in your life come into another level of change and faith and manifestation say I actually believe there's a cry in your heart and you are crying out to be intertwined with him you're crying out to walk with him you're crying out to talk with him you're crying out to see accurately and precisely but that self-deception not that's not how we see ourselves we see I could do better oh I just heard Sharon she prays and worships in the morning and studies see that's that's that that's why I don't get to see as well as she does no that's not what the word says he says bye for me I'm the source here and the first one you're gonna see is the depth of your need you're gonna see all that I've provided for you and you're gonna begin to see that you are already that passionate one you are already that hungry one you are already that one that I believe is gonna change the world you are already that one you know the Word of God says this he says if you pursue the things of the Spirit you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh I believe that it is a camouflage that it is a hijacking that the enemy keeps bringing obstacles and lust and different things in front of you that makes you feel like oh I've got all these things that I've got to deal with and Jesus is saying no let me cause the real Bobby to go free let me cause the real Katie to be loose let me cause the real Vanessa to run forth right now he says drop those things off he says those that pursue the things of the Spirit none of these other things could even attach themselves to you the eye salve I want to give you not only causes you to see me it causes you to see yourself and it causes jokes of condemnation to be broken off of your life it causes the inadequacy that you feel it causes the rejection the betrayal that you know it causes the expectation that you wanted somebody else to meet in your life that didn't get met it causes you to realize I might not get it there but I get it here and when I get it here it is not secondary it's the highest and the best that my soul was made for and everything else is a plus that's a hard thing you know I recognize I'm a strong woman I didn't say I was a controlling moment I said I'm a strong woman but I'll tell you what I think III think I had made Greg's life miserable for awhile please don't Amen I'm sure he felt so inadequate to the task of being someone Savior Redeemer life giver need provider intimacy person to be all of that and you know it it comes from God and everything else is just bonus I lived my life as a single woman single mom for years and I knew Jesus was my husband man and I'll tell you what he was so good at it I didn't want to be married because I thought it was either/or see I thought if I got a husband then all of a sudden Jesus was not going to be my husband men and so really I Greg knows what a battle I had with wanting to be because Jesus was absolutely so incredible he loved me in ways I had never been loved the I didn't want anything less than that and I thought to have someone else would be less know to have someone else in your life doesn't take away what you have to do with Jesus it's just the plus added to that so when they can give you something great when they can't give you something it's still great of course you pray for it to change but you're not without because he wants you to know the depth of your need and that he has created a table before you in the presence of your enemy it's already all laid out and he says I've given you everything that pertains to life and to godliness there is nothing there that he hasn't provided I know this is a simple truth but I believe that the Holy Spirit is crying out just ask me for eyesalve he says because I want you to see your needs so that I can come and be your comfort so I can come and provide you with grace so I can come and provide all that you have need of so I can come and provide you know all those things that pertain to life and godliness when I was having this encounter with the Lord this probably was the first time I really recognized how jealous Jesus was forming there was such a jealousy he was so jealous over the fact that I thought a new pair of shoes could satisfy me he was so jealous over the fact that that I thought recognition and a bigger platform could satisfy me he was so jealous over the fact that I thought I could substitute pride in my humility for true humility I'm not unlike you but he was so jealous over me because he's the one that made the table he's the one that laid it all out and said there is nothing here that you that they won't satisfy you the rest of your life you're not going without I was talking to someone in Slovenia when I was their last we could we both have a common friend I just forgot his name pastor from China yep um how do you say his name pet no pastor um right no pastor how do you say no pastor um uh I think is his name but anyway if I said it wrong forgive me you'll catch up he's been in prison had his bones broken God brought him out of prison everything yeah that guy the heavenly man I think they call him the heavenly man there you go anyway we were getting ready to a conference together in st. Albans and we he asked to have someone translate for him and so they had three translators I think it went into someone could translate into German and then they translated back into English as it was a long time brother young that there we go and so it's a long time before we could hear what he had to say so so I wanted to pray together and I thought how are we gonna do this so we took hands and the translator took hands with us we began to pray and he began to pray Oh God give us the privilege of being martyred for you Oh God you know don't let us die any other way than to be killed for your name's sake Oh God you know God let our lives and our deaths be a testimony to your goodness and your faithfulness God honor us to be killed for you and I'm over there going no God no God [Applause] nope see it's not the fact that I wouldn't die for him I'm just not volunteering to be next in line I don't mind laying down my life but I'm not gonna draw a target on myself and hand somebody a gun you know there's a difference in this so he had just a different concept than I had but I realized what had happened and they're not asking any of us to be martyrs not even asking you to sacrifice he wasn't sacrificing he had gained something that he saw us in the West ignorant of he had gained something that he saw that we didn't have and that it satisfy his soul and his cravings and the desires of his life and he realized that we were going about life and we were going about spiritual things and that we were missing out on something amazing we're not quite done but lift your hands father I just pray for each of us here father this message is an experience that you want to bring us to a place father that we quit fighting the skirmishes and we start winning the war father this is a encounter father that causes us to have condemnation fall off of us father that this is an encounter that so shows forth father who you are and that when we pray for eyesalve the problem is is we can't see you when we're looking at us father we pray right now in the name of Jesus as we ask for ice AB again father we're asking you to change our perception change the way we see change the way we respond change the way we act but God the self-deception where somehow it is connected together with this ugly highest humility that makes us small when we're supposed to turn the world upside down God forgive us right now in the name of Jesus forgive us caused us to stand up and be who we are and to be able to see who we are in the name of Jesus you know we got asks us to ask for eye salve it's because he wants to be able to satisfy you but he wants you to be able to see the depth of your need and to see the depth of his solutions that he has for you and most of us don't realize this we say Christ is drawn to faith and the Bible says he does nothing except by faith but I'll tell you what he is also drawn to need and we say oh no he isn't drawn to need I've even preached messages that I think that's what I said but it says that he was slain for the sins of the world that's a pretty big need there but it's only those that recognize the need for a savior they get opportunity to have the benefits from that the same is true with what I'm sharing with you concerning who he is but also who you are and he says listen I got all laid out for you there's my banqueting table but unless she recognized that I've got daily bread you're not gonna sit down and eat daily and be satisfied you'll be enesta sized by other things you'll be entertained by other things but you will all you'll need want to do is medicate yourself so that you don't feel the greatness of your need let me let me turn on another television show I like TV so that's not a problem you know let me eat another slice of pizza whoops that was one too many I feel a little sick because we think more months must be better but it's it's not better it enesta sizes us when you and I are made in the image of God and there something so powerful that is already in your spirit not that you're attaining to that is already in your spirit that he's saying yeah get some ice AB I want you to see who you really are but I also want you to see who I really am and I want you to see this table that everything you have need of everything that pertains to life and godliness it is already here not only that you get to eat in the presence of your enemy and there's nothing they can do about it so we've got to be careful not to feed on stuff that enesta sizes us and forget what we really have need of I want to share another vision I had during this time it's kind of personal but I believe in being open and vulnerable you know I was married before and I was married to a man that was not very nice he liked lots of women and he also beat me a lot you know so up and then he you know I didn't even divorce him he divorced me and left me yeah so it was a rule it was not an easy it was not an easy life but only say that because I had a vision in the myths of all of this where God is saying you know get the eye salve and and see differently you know and I had already forgiven this man you know we were divorced you know I had was busy raising three kids and ministry and that wasn't an issue but in this vision I had I was standing with Jesus on top of a hill and he's got his arm around me and he would squeeze my shoulder look into my eyes and smile and my bones would just melt you know it just oh you know and I would smile back at him you know with this big silly grin that you just thought uh you need feel like the very Sun as Xuan is shining on you and you know and then he would look to the horizon and and and and I'd look to see what he was looking at but he had such excitement such a joy upon his face I wanted to see what he'd see and then you know he I couldn't see anything and he'd look down at me again with that smile and that joy and he would hug my shoulder and and I would look up in his eyes and he would giggle and I would laugh and then we would both look at the horizon again and I was waiting to see what he was so excited about and I could see this movement in the horizon on these little Hills and it looked like something was coming toward us but I couldn't see what it was it was kind of low to the ground and so I couldn't see it but he was so excited I was so excited you know I was pressing in and we're excited together and we're looking and all of a sudden I recognize this was a human being they were on their hands and knees and and the knees were bleeding and the hands were all scratched and we're rocks had dug into them and all that in this person with great effort was making their way to Jesus and Jesus was just so thoroughly excited and joyous and so I was there excited and joyous and then the person lifted his head and it was my ex-husband I had bought I staff so that I could see the way that he sees and not be limited to the way that I saw we're gonna kind of end there tonight if you're one of those that you have never had an encounter with the Lord if we're salvation actually just stand to your feet and Lexi could you just come and join us on the keyboard but stand to your feet all over the room some of you are here tonight and you have never been freed to be the real person that you are you have never been loosed to know that mighty passion and desire and hunger that God has put on the inside of you and to realize that you are already singularly focused on him that he's your desire and that he's created that table with everything that you have need of that will satisfy you he's told you to come eat and he says you can even do it in the presence of your enemies I know most of you but if there's anyone here that is not already prayed the prayer Jesus I want you to come I have need of you I have a need in my life and I have a need for a savior of a need for a deliverer I have need for a healer I have need of the identity that you have for me that I've never had for myself if that's you tonight could you just slip your hand up right where you are thank you I see that hand thank you thank you three four five hands thank you you know don't you love it when you have to beg people six hands thank you seven father we're in a place we just gonna give you another second another second [Music] sometimes always share things that we've experienced you know what we're doing we're sharing the goodness of God amen thank you I see that hand hallelujah amen we're all going to pray this prayer together those that lifted their hands and and those of us that have already received Christ are gonna pray together with them father I recognize my need of you and I ask you to come and live in my life be the one that brings me comfort that brings me forgiveness that gives me a fresh start I believe you already did all these things for me and then you raised from the dead I receive you in my life tonight in the name of Jesus and the spirit of god says sons and daughters he says there is an awakening going on in the earth and many people thought the wakening is a revival but the Spirit of God says I am bringing people to awaken to what men are a woman that they are says the Lord I am bringing forth an awakening and the earth says the Lord he said it's gonna bring he says an understanding says the Lord he says that you are my heirs that you are my ruling heirs and that you are my hands that you are my mouth that you are my heart and you are my feet outreach to the earth and you are now the light of the the earth says the Lord and I am going to bring forth an awakening where you have been asleep that you cannot sleep and ignore the greatness that I have put within you any longer says the Lord so I am bringing an awakening since God

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