"Encounter" | Power Hour | Ep.58

[Music] hey good afternoon power hour family it's so good to have you i know that a couple of our channels are just taking a little while to connect uh but as you join you are all so welcome uh please do comment let us know where you're joining from if it's your first time then an extra special welcome to you you'll notice it's just the two of us nate and nate i was able to say sarah james not here weird nate and sam it's because i was thinking in my head i hope that emma and sarah jane are not watching from the sun but it's not funny here in scotland yet and so at least i can rest assured that they're not experiencing the sun while we are experiencing this and but it's a joy to be with you nate how you doing yeah good good yeah it's not real sunny here either it's been kind of um just cloudy at least it didn't really rain yesterday so the kids got to go out a bit and then today it's kind of nice to be a little chilly because i can wear you know layers in the loft because i i prefer layers but you know it's that uh wonderful english um british weather i guess really is the way i should say it huh oh for sure sure i know i and i i did laugh when we both logged on just before we went live we've done a sarah jane and then emma how sad is this we have both turned up wearing the same color and we need a bit of prayer i think that that might be why we're connecting in the spirit though because we are praying we're not wearing the same jacket but we are wearing the exact same color no we did not plan it uh it's just it's just a coincidence but maybe it's gonna end up a regularity like it does with emma and sarah jane honestly i that happens all the time with them and who knows if it's going to happen with us and we just won't do a pastor john and a david who turn up who used to turn up on uh on the same day with the exact same outfit on by accident it will aim not to do that i still can't believe last week because it was it was not just the exact same color but it was the same same jacket from the same shop like what crazy likeliness of that to happen you know as with that yes i've not even worn it yet if it's a disaster how was your weekend anyway what did you get up to yeah i know it's been good we you know get to hang out kids got a celebrated party birthday can't well birthday should i say because we were finally allowed in england to gather um with a few people in your house so we had a couple round for her birthday amazing um night on healing unleash actually with training seen some healings which was amazing some kind of comical ones within that but god healed um it's those times when you're kind of like laugh when somebody says hey i feel like somebody has an issue with a big toe and then somebody actually did have an issue and you try not to laugh but you know they're they're all practicing and we seen him healed and then actually there was like seven other prophetic you know words of knowledge that went along with that which was quite funny um i should say funny but it was just amazing to see you know what god is doing and really the the the amazing um being able to just tune in to more of hearing from god in this season really so when you can't be you can't say funny like some things but if you don't know and those of you that are watching and megan and nate they run their own healing class called healing unleashed you've been doing it during lockdown how many weeks have you been going with that now um we just celebrated ten weeks so this next sunday or next this next sunday is our last one ten weeks of teaching people how to heal the sick and you're in for a treat we're hoping uh that at some point during the next three days and whether that be today or thursday in particular to go after your sickness those of you that are watching your pain and release healing and we have some words of knowledge and that we want to release as well and just content for your healing particularly because nate carry such a strong healing anointing we want to make sure that you all get to uh jump into that flow and enjoy what god is doing through the the particular call on next life to heal the sick we've also uh just so you know we have pastor john joining us tomorrow emma's dad i know you all love when he joins uh so he's joining us to talk wisdom around joy tomorrow and because we believe that god wants to release that to you there do you know i'm feeling uh ever so slightly shake it just as i come on today because my family have realized the joy they get and jumping and giving me a fright and those of you who work for glasgow prophetic center global prophetic alliance now those of you that have worked with me you know how easily i jump and get freights and so my weekend has maybe not been as uh joy-filled as yours mate because families came from every doorway behind every wall to try and make me jump so that has been my weekend and i need a little bit of a sleeper to lie down i think because because of that it's been as it's been tough so pray for me those of you that are watching uh yes alison allison your head of freight giving do you know when i work or when i'm sermon prepping particularly when we had a an office when i type i get so in the zone that i just block everything else out so people can be talking to me they can walk in the door out the door and i won't even notice i can't tell you the amount of times i've looked up and got a fright because you know someone that's sharing an office with me is standing in front of me it's uh i know some of you are asking where are the ladies as well just as we said emma and sarah jane are on vacation and we're going i'm actually nated myself we finish at the end of this week um and we've recorded two weeks of special power hours for you and just of exclusive content answering loads of questions talking about family salvation encountering god the prophetic leadership everything in between as well and so you will get to see our faces for the next two weeks after this and but really yeah you have nate and myself for the week so if you look at it we are on episode 58 and today the theme because we love a theme as encounter encounter and we want to talk uh today and just release some prophetic words around encountering god because really i don't know if you have felt it but even over the the last few days the nearness of god has been so close you know and i'm standing here or i'm sitting on my bed and i feel like you're right next to me god and there is an ease of dialogue there's an ease of communication there is an ease of being together of of conversation of encounter of chat back and forward and god is saying look i'm making it easy for you to meet with me i'm making it easy for you to meet with me and where meeting with me has been a struggle and a battle and has been a difficulty the spirit of the lord is saying i'm making it easy for you to meet with me and we've just had really nate and i were talking about this before we came on this sovereign season of god where he is saying that where you have felt like effort was required an extreme exertion was required to dwell with god and thy shifting that the lord is saying into this place where being with me meeting with me will be an ease and will be something that regularly and consistently marks your life and so i want you to just decree out loud with me and type it in the comments it's going to be easy for me to meet with god it is going to be easy for me to meet with god and why am i getting you to say that so often the blockages are in our mind because our expectation is that it's going to be a hard work that the blockage comes in our mind because we think those that encounter god that we hear about they know some sort of mystical secret they've understood something that none of us have understood you know we look at those who have encounters and share them and we think they have the monopoly on encounter they have the five step plan and i me over here i'm never going to be able to get there and the blockage is the thought it's going to be hard for me to meet with god now there is some other stuff around there and we will hopefully hit some of that and today there are some other blockages but i do think the majority of the time the blockage is as simple as thinking it's going to be hard for me to meet with god and what happens in that situation we we think that thought we see that thought we have that thought and then we just bow out actually if it's gonna be so hard i'm not gonna try i'm not gonna put an effort i'm not gonna you know jump into i'm gonna step back or i'm gonna do something else that i'm more comfortable with and we have to eliminate the lie that it's going to be hard for you to meet with god and replace it with the truth that it is going to be easy for you to meet with god why because it's in his name yeah he's emanuel god with us he is present present present nate do you want to just prophesy and share with us what you're heeding the spirit of the lord say at the moment yeah i think i think you're so spot on with the you know um even for myself is it there is that ease of just hanging out with the king and and sometimes i think we um you won't see me say this too often but you know we almost over spiritualize like we have to have this um goosebump feeling or we have to have this there that and i love those encounters where you feel you know your your body reacts but then there's sometimes that you're just hanging out with god and you know he's speaking but it's not because you feel your room has changed which it really has but you don't necessarily sense it in your physical body but there's just this ease and once you can push past you know the distractions and the frustrations you know and and really like you're saying we have to latch on to that truth because it is easy to say well i've not had ease with this i've not done this before i've not hung out you know i'm not heard from him and for me you know i you know i was hearing from the lord or even um yesterday laying in the floor and i cover myself up and my son you know kept coming in because he needed help with the xbox and you know gracefully he kind of knew not to bother me but finally he just stood there and i could just tell his presence they're like elias please i need you to go downstairs because i need to focus you know but getting past that because there is such an ease with that development and yeah and so really i heard the spirit of lord saying i am calling you forth back to the front come on out of hiding out to the open i am calling you giants in the faith as you are not as you have seen yourself some already have seen themselves as giants but the people that have listened to the lie i am releasing my grace to take the self-perception of i'm not good enough i can't be anything more i am raising up an army that doesn't just sit around and wait for the enemy to attack but an army that is strategic and taking back what the enemy has stolen and it's that place of you know sometimes we just get in this place well yes we're strong we're hanging out with god but actually what are we doing to take back bring heaven to earth as he has command us to do and then you know the very things that you have said they are beyond gone you know like so many times we've cursed things and said you know they're way way too far gone i've had friends say well there's no way they're going to get saved they're not going to do this and we've said it's way too gone of territory or health or finances or the economy it's too far gone or the government or the leadership and really the church sometimes we're so guilty of this but i as i call you forth as god calls you forth he is aligning you with a gift of faith that will give you the very courage and strength to run without losing momentum there is a spiritual grace of loot of not losing momentum and people say well you got to take this you got to do that and i'm saying i know in the physical body sometimes your body loses it but i believe that there is a spiritual supernatural grace in the holy spirit that actually your physical body that there's something that happens in that in that momentum that the holy spirit will pour into you when you're when when when normally in the season before you felt like your physical body was about to die or that you were about to fall away but because of you because you're letting him align this gift of faith in you he's raising up a momentum that in previous seasons that you have actually lacked or that you've not been able to run this race or you you you've said well i just need a break or i just need this but god says in this season i am giving you momentum i am giving you energy i am giving you courage to run this out i call you to more stand up for who i have destined you in the church to be a church full of joy a church full of strength of victory where no demon in hell will be able to stand against you receive this courage today in the strength of the fullness of his glory you know in in in this word that i i felt so strongly from the lord it reminds me of exodus um in and how moses you know he he's he's in he's in egypt he's hanging out and he sees the egyptian beat a um you know um an israelite you know and and moses goes up and literally just kills this egyptian well he runs for his life and he goes out in the middle of desert and the next thing you know someone that is is a part of the royalty of egypt is now living out in the desert in fear in a place that that he's hanging out and he's just shepherding he's just watching these sheep for his his his father-in-law and he's just hanging out but all of a sudden all of a sudden by an encounter by the lord it shifts every perspective in his mind every perspective every every doubt every fear and if you look at it if you read in it you know he says and it's it's exodus 3 um and 11. i'm reading now the nlt if you can pull it up and he starts here and you know obviously right before this you know the the burning bush is happening but in verse 11 it picks up and it says but moses protested to god who am i to appear before pharaoh because obviously god's like look you're going to appear before pharaoh and he he in itself you know his his physical form he's like who am i to do this this is not me you know who am i to lead the people of you know israel out of egypt and how many times have we been guilty to say how am i gonna hear from you god how can i hear because i've done this or how can and we have to push past that as you even pointed out is we have to grasp the truth of jesus that he is here with us in this season to reap more than we ever have and then he goes in and he keeps going and then god answered him in verse 12 he says i will be with you and this is the sign that i am with you the one the one who has sent you and then he says when you have brought the people out of egypt you will worship god at the very at this very mountain but moses again how many times do we do this as humans like we protest god again and say if i go to the people visual tell them this the god of your ancestors has sent me to they will ask me what is your name who are you and how many times are we denying the destiny and the anointing that god has placed upon our lives that in this season right now this week i feel like there is just such a stir that he's saying there is a ease of encounter and it is time and i am calling you forth in this and then then he goes on in verse 14 he says god replied i am who i am yeah say this to the people of israel i have sent i have i i am has sent me to you and and and that is a truth that i think we need to hang on to and maybe you just need to say that is i am is the one that has sent me i am is the one that sent me jesus has sent me i have his power i have his authority he's his blood is running through my veins his his his anointing his courage his strength and if we find that encounter if we find that encounter it will bring us out of that hiding it's not just that encounter of with him it's not just like oh this is great to be able to hang out with jesus which don't be wrong like honestly i love that but what it does is it develops and it pushes us forth out of hiding out into the open and and it's it's an encounter to reveal an encounter to reveal the fullness of his glory through us come on so good i hope you're experiencing what mate is saying there oh yeah i can hear your voice am i going oh no it's but it's gone it's gone there i thought i could hear myself twice i hope you're hearing what nate is saying there that moses was a fear-bound kind of washed up ex-royal shepherd and yet one encounter with god pulled him from the hidden place pulled him from the neglected place pulled him from the forgotten place into the revealed place and moses went from being in limbo to functioning in his call because of one encounter and that is so important i hope you start to hear that someone commented earlier on and i just want to address the question and you said you know that you'd spend some time in prayer and that you didn't get into encounter what if i am too broken and we've got to understand this god is near to the brokenhearted he is near to the brokenhearted and your brokenness is not a repellent to god can we just say that right now and say a hallelujah to that your brokenness is not a repellent to god it does not ever repel god actually when you are honest with your brokenness god draws near to end it becomes a magnet it becomes a magnet and we see that through scripture you know saul was a christian killer yet god encountered him and took him in a moment from christian killing saul and to nation-changing church birthing you know epistle writing a miracle stewarding paul in a moment but he was broken and his brokenness led him into killing christians john the disciple john the apostle john he was a liar he denied god and you remember it talks about him smelling coals burning and that the smell of coals burning would have been to to to him to peter sorry would have been to peter and that the smell of denial and the smell of lying and yet by the shores of galilee god jesus lights a coal fire and reinstates peter as a disciple and uses the thing that broke peter and that discarded him and made him feel disqualified to become the thing that reinstates him getting in a wine press i'm just thinking of all these people that were broken he was hating he was afraid he was full of fear you know he was he felt washed up he felt like i'm just a mess i'm gonna be killed i i'm gonna be mocked i have nothing to bring and yet in a wine press he had an encounter and he went from broken getting to warrior getting and he went from insecure getting to mighty warrior then he went from you know timid getting to leadership gideon i hope you're hearing what we're saying here your brokenness is not a repellent to god let me tell you what becomes a repellent and the bible is super clear on it pride and when you start to say oh i'm not broken i'm sorted i'm i've got no issues i'm started i am all together you know i'm sorry i've i've got nothing wrong with me because i prayed that becomes a repellent but when you start to go god i'm so broken i feel like i've got nothing left to bring god i'm a mess i'm tired i'm lonely i feel disqualified here it is here i am god says i'm near to the broken hearted i am near to the broken-hearted i am near to the brokenhearted and i just think some of you maybe all of you you've got to say and type my brokenness is not a repellent to god because we can get so stuck in that false mindset that i am so broken that god doesn't want to come near me that i'm so a mess that god doesn't want to come near me that i'm so disconnected i'm so grief striking i'm so sad that god you don't want to come there i mean you know nate i don't know about you but i know for myself some of the most extraordinary encounters or special encounters that i have had have been in the middle of feeling very very broken i've been in the middle of feeling like i don't know which way is up and so it is with these people and with countless people in the bible their brokenness isn't just not a repellent it's a magnet it's just not a repellent it's a magnet and it's something that invites god to come and meet and to wash and to restore and to heal nate you had an amazing encounter yesterday um about three types of people that you saw uh in a particular room in the heavenly realms and i think it illustrates even this because of who in the the encounter who was weak and who who was you know old in the encounter that they were those who'd grown stale but why don't you just prophesy and share that encounter with us and and take your time and it's so that we can pray around it because it really illustrates what god is saying just now yeah yeah absolutely i think as well uh sam what you're saying is is we have to i really feel like that right now we need to pray into the fact that we need to break um the the relationship or the connection with the lie that the enemy has been trying to speak in our ear and that we've been listening to and so right now father we just we just uh renounce we disconnect this lie of this from the enemy and we we didn't denounce the relationship that we have connected with this lie from the enemy that has said that we're not this that we're broken or because of our dad um because the way our dad treated us or our parents treated us or because um this happened to me when i was a child or or you know the heritages of our family that has been broken-hearted because of of drinking or or drugs or i carry this and because i'm broken because my family's broken i don't have i can't run with this so god right now we just speak your your power right now to touch every person that is watching that will break the very lie from the enemy that will release them in the and going forth as you have have as you have even proclaimed today in this place of ease that we're all feeling in this place of encounter with you so father we just release right now really we release the very power that will just flow through people god that they can go past the lies of the enemy because they are laying down the very lies that they have become in relationship with and we break these relationships right now i divorce this relationship with the lies of the enemy and so i just just say that i divorce the relationship with the lie from the enemy and we go forth with this father yeah you know i love that i love that and and with this you know you know i was just hanging out with the lord as i kind of said even earlier is as i i it took me a minute to really just get in the place of the ease with the lord and honestly i'll tell i'll just be very transparent with you guys and there's two things that really i had to do is is i'm laying in my floor and you know i'm i'm a blanket cover person and so i like it to be chilly in the room if it can be and so i normally cover my body and my head and i know that sounds quite funny but there's just something about the glory of god like i just i feel this covering of god upon me and in that moment in my mind if you're like me definitely i feel like the enemy has been attacking in ways that you know because we're not so as busy as normal you know i think a lot of us can relate to the fact that even though we're not quite as busy as we were sometimes we feel like our mind is busier than it ever has been because you have your mind is flooded with like all of these things of what should you be doing or what shouldn't you be doing or should i be spending more time with the family or the kids or should i be doing this or should i be doing that and it's this this continual thing that i'm like i'm laying before the lord and i'm like god i give you all my thoughts right now i just lay these down they're not responsibility you know even some of the just a uh kind of a um a tip for you guys is is i love this book by um bob sorgy as i believe you pronounce his name he used to be out of ihop his book's called the secrets of the secret place and talking about finding a place of of the of a prayer place of a love for god in a place of it takes um what is it matthew 6 and 18 talking about going in the secret place and you shut the door but he gives even tidbits of tips on how to when you go into prayer you know what it is and i feel in this season right now it's been more than ever you know you know distraction and stuff but what you do is you know as soon as you go to pray as soon as you go to hang out with the lord it's those moments that all of a sudden oh i need to do the laundry you know it's all this stupid like oh i need to go to the toilet or oh i need to do this or i need to do that but what he says is take a notebook and i'm a bit of a nerd so i always have i i i my ipad and i set do not disturb on so i'm not seeing notifications but what i do is i sit there and as soon as it comes up or i'll just be like well i can't say it because i say my speaker will go off but normally i'll say hey siri you know set you know sent me a reminder at a dot and now siri's going so um but you know with that you set a reminder so you just throw it out the window because otherwise it's always flooding your mind and so i was laying before the lord but as i said earlier my son was coming in and i'm like trying to stay focused but i was like if i just lay here i can push through this and so within that i asked the lord um if i could go in the heavenly realm and so he took me into a room and there were screens there were screens everywhere but then some of the screens had these like treadmills like you know kind of like at you know if you go to a gym and you see the treadmills but normally they have these little screens but i mean they're like big screens so they're like 75 inch screens in front of these treadmills and i asked the lord what is this room and he said it is the journey room the journey room and i asked god i was like what what do you want me to know about this room like it's cold like really cool screens you know and all of this but what what what do you want me to know and he said everyone is on a journey and i know that sounds cliche but that's what that's what the lord told me everyone is on a journey and we have to remember that but then he says some of the people are you know when i'm looking around this room you know some of the people were really small and on these like you know i imagine you know when you think about like tom and jerry and jerry's this little tiny mouse and you know i imagine i i for some reason i feel like i've seen him on a little treadmill but it was like you look around this room and people were tiny like i mean tiny on these little treadmills and within that you know i said um but then you know then then you've seen these tiny people on these little treadmills and then you've seen over here you know amidst all of this you've seen giants i mean giants really tall you know built buff you know um guys on these huge treadmills and with that god said that the small ones are the represent the new christians and the ones that are big is the one that has been exercising and has been with me for a long time but they have grown but they were growing because they have been consistent with their encounter with me then then i'm looking around the room so you have the new christians that are that are babies that are tiny and then you see around the room and you see these huge giants on these treadmills and and just when you look at them you're like they couldn't they can't they can do anything because of who they what they are and their structure and who they are but then you then i looked and then i started beginning to see these old people and i don't mean like old as in age but it was like these straggly old people and and they were on the treadmills in in but they were like barely moving just just there and i asked who are these people and god said that these are the people that have been with me for a long time but they have lost the focus and purpose of me even though they are on a journey they grew old and weak and you know i have a few other things that go along with that but did you want to add into that before i get moving forward i think so powerful me let me just uh kind of go over those three groups of people again so that you get this concept that everybody's on a journey so no one is exempt i love that no one is exempt from journeying with god but there are three attitudes three postures within that realm within that journey that will define who you are the first is really reserved for those who have just come to know jesus which is a glorious thing and small doesn't mean insignificant small doesn't mean you know that that they don't have power it's just an image to represent they're new they're fresh and actually they come with something uh that that is vibrant because of their newness of salvation the second group which really is is who we desire to be those who are giants in the faith not because of works but because of consistent encounter and intimacy that god values your ability to be with him he values your desire to be with him your consistency to be with him above everything else and you know him and he says i know you that that is what grows your muscles that's what makes you begging strong not going to the gym i mean as good as it is and i enjoy that not lots and lots of works or or or extreme study although all these things are values but it is the hard work or not the hard work but the consistent work the intentional work of being with god within that third group of people and really i would like us to repent and just pray around this those who are weak who are older and not that's not an age that's more a sign of being stale of being in limbo and that is the group of people who have not yet built that consistency of belonging and of devotion with god and i just want to say this liberating truth to you if you feel like i have been stale and right now i feel like i am in that weak category of people it is not a final title it is not a statement of finality the spirit of the lord is saying i'm pressing this on you now so that i can worry you into a depth of relationship and encounter that will turn you in an instant into being a giant in my kingdom and i want you to hear that that is not a slap in the back of the hand it's not a judgment it's not a curse it's not something you can't shift he's revealing it to you so that you can say god i want to encounter god i want to belong with you god i want to be intimate with you god i want to know you so deeply and i'm going to shift out of this stale place and i'm going to shift into a place of being fully alive and have been consistent with you so i want us to just pray and if you would just repeat after me then that would be amazing and then me i want you to release that that that call that strength to be consistently with god and before i prophesy some more about what god is saying in this season but let me just repent and i want you to say this out loud so you don't need to type it you just need to say it out loud as we do that with us father god i am so sorry father god i am so sorry for where i have allowed my relationship with you to grow stale for where i've allowed my relationship to grow studio for where i have welcomed inconsistencies instead of welcoming consistency god i want to know you every day not just on sundays or at midweek prayer meetings god i want to know you every day and right now father i commit to a life of consistency i let you were me but i respond to your willing and run into your arms so that i can belong with you jesus name amen nate release that giant call to be someone who's consistently with god yeah yeah absolutely absolutely amazing thank you for pointing out just so such a focus on this thing and you know i the last two things that i felt like when even went along with that is i heard those spirit of lord say i want everyone to be a giant of faith and full of energy that only comes by focusing in on me and i heard the last thing that he said is i exercise your faith to draw you closer to me i exercise your faith to draw you closer to me yes yes yes and so father we just released that right now we release the giants today father the giants in hiding the giants that that that have been distracted that the god of a place of maybe there there's people all over that are watching that that are represent the new christians that are on this new journey and they're developing in their building and that's an amazing place to be because that you are using them right where they're at father but then you have then you have the people that represent the old straggly and i don't mean this by age in any form guys this is a place of just of assembling or a place of recognition of understanding somebody is weak and they're falling apart and so there there's some of you that are in this place of feeling weak a feeling of feeling broken and then you have the giants and god is saying i am raising you up to be a giant i am raising you from from a very new to to a to a place of being a giant i am raising you from a place that you thought that you were weak that you feel that you are weak that you've not you've been distracted with religious um activities and you've been distracted with just just doing the status quo or just going to church or just watching online but i'm calling you forth in a place of consistency of encounter with me and so father we just release this word right now father of the giant killers the ones that will raise up and run this race father and as we've already repented for for this father and just not being able to go ahead with this god we say we lay down our old self we lay down the the perceptions of being young or or old and god we just say breathe life into us so that these old straggly muscles and this old straggly body will be activated and equipped with your glory and your fullness of life god there's no place in in the christian realm to not be walking in your fullness of you jesus and there's a fullness of your joy and power that shapes us into a place of being giants and the giants of faith the giants of of knowing your fullness of being the hands and feet of you but it's only in that place of that encounter that will force this place to to the fullness of being these giants that you have activated and that you will equip us and so father we just speak that right now right now we just activate us father we just say activate us right now god impart to us the fullness of life that we can run with the fullness of your joy and victory and power and your anointing that father that we begin or that we're going to see even starting this week people healed that we never thought we were going to get healed before that people were going to be set free that never thought set free before people that you you even think about your neighbors that you said well they'll never believe in god but god is opening a door right now because of your consistency of saying god i want this with you i want this with you god and because of your hunger of wanting that encounter and receiving that encounter he is breaking the very foundations that has been blocking your friends from receiving the fullness of his glory the fullness of his power and so there is walls just breaking down in relationships that right now that is bringing fresh relationships that the relationships that that family members are being healed right now they're being healed right now relationships are being healed right now salvation and family members of the prodigals that of of children that have not known god they're being they're being activated they're becoming and encountering god and because of what you're doing father we just activate we just move forward god we say more of you father that we can shake the foundations of the earth because there's more people all across the earth being activated as an army of god father running and being strategic of not just setting aside of not just being an army but actually being activated in motion and movement and power and glory and not just knowing that you have it but actively walking that out actively running that out what is it god that you're speaking in this moment what are you saying father and so father we just say we want and this is it we are let's say this we are giants in the faith we are giants in the faith we are giants in the amen thank you powerful powerful i want to prophesy it and really kind of land in our final 15 minutes and why encounter why encounter why today why this theme i've had one phrase bubble inside of me for a few days and i love that when it's like you know you get your hair cut and there's extra hair and you can't you know you can't get it out you can't get it away or or you're in an uncomfortable garment or you're in an uncomfortable position and begging you just can't shift you know what you're feeling and really a good restlessness because of what the spirit of god is bubbling uh and it is this and it's simple but let us dive into the concept of it john the revelator was john the beloved first john the revelator was john the beloved first that he was known for intimacy and devotion before revelation and transformation because extravagant revelation comes from extravagant intimacy extravagant revelation comes from extravagant intimacy and your devotion drives your revelation your devotion drives your ability to steward transformation your devotion drives your ability to burn your devotion drives your ability to steward power your devotion drives your ability to welcome the center your devotion drives your ability to release reformation and it kept on going your devotion drives your ability to release healing your devotion drives the ability to steward solutions and it kept going your devotion drives your ability to understand scripture your devotion drives your ability to steward all that i am and god is speaking this word people of devotion arise people of devotion arise for i am marking a generation a people a new breed as a people of devotion who are entirely fully devoted to me who live lifes of devotion who live lives of ministering to me who live lives of extravagant intimacy and god is saying i'm marking you with devotion i am marking you with devotion you see god is looking for those like exodus 33 11 like was described of moses that he can speak to face to face as a man speaks with his friend and so he did that with john when he caught him up when he wrote the book of revelation that there was a face to face that john saw the eyes that were burning with fire he saw the eyes of jesus that were ablaze he saw his hair as white as will he saw his feet that were glowing as though they were in a furnace he saw the sharp double-edged sword that came out of his mouth he saw the golden sash that was on him he saw the streams of living water that flowed from him and god is saying i want you to be like john who was beloved who was intimate who was known for devotion before he was known for revelation and signs and wonders and so i want to prophesy to you that as this happens and i can feel it brewing across the face of the earth god is saying this i'm raising up a new jesus people movement but i'm not calling it jesus people and it's because of the connotations i'm calling this new movement a movement of those who are jesus obsessed who are jesus obsessed who are jesus obsessed and these are the days of jesus obsession of jesus obsession where my people will be marked with obsession and captivated by who i am are you captivated my family are you obsessed with jesus and jesus is the desire of all nations which means in the fabric of nations in the fabric of nations and we know that nations are people first as a desire an obsession for who jesus is and jesus is saying this new jesus people that are the jesus obsessed a movement of jesus obsession they will flood the earth and the lord says as their devotion to jesus as their devotion to me as sturdied and increased saw their power saw their solutions so their signs wonders and miracles so they will be and so god is bringing us on a journey and i've had three steps now this is not a formula i'm not a formula person but i think they will be aids in your prayer and i hope they really uh they they merge well with lots of what nate is saying i and there are three words three words that sound the same but are different that god wants you to pray through and meditate through and really um bring before the lord as a definitive words that will define who you are and the first word that he wants you to cultivate the first attribute that he wants you to pray through is fascination fascination and fascination is strong attraction strong interest where you're highly intrigued god i want to be fascinated by you god i'm highly intrigued jesus i'm highly intrigued by you i'm going to investigate i'm going to go deep in prayer i'm going to find out who this book says you are i'm going to worship you i'm gonna worship you and see the beauty of your holiness jesus cultivate in me a fascination for you and fascination ultimately is about discovery and wonder that's what fascination is about so if you want two words to submit fascination it is discovery and wonder god i want to discover more of you why don't we just pray that now nate can you just pray god i want to discover more of you and and and just pray around wonder as well before i i share the next one just release that we just release a place god of your fascination father of of your wonder father of of receiving god of more of you of that fresh revelation father just of a place of knowing more god of a place of being able to be obsessed with you god a place of just that wonder of your glory the wonder of your fullness of you father god and we just lay aside anything that would keep us from that but god right now we just say we want to be in a place of your wonder we want to be able to see newness of life right now we want to see new things fresh revelation god anything that god that that we may have not have seen before god we just ask you to bring to light right now bring to light in our family bring to light and just how we act how we fall more in love with you how we find a place of being fascinated of you god above a place of devotion and obsession of you god let us fall in that place god we come humbly before you because we want to glorify you jesus today we glorify you father today father fresh revelation right now jesus so i want you to pray that as your first place and dwell and fascination with jesus and then the second infatuation infatuation i'm in fact to be infatuated or to have infatuation it means to be smitten you know like no fresh love it is being smitten it means i love this definition that i read it means to be carried away by unreasoned passion how good is that to be carried away by unreasoned passion that you come from fascination and it's not that you leave it behind but you then come into infatuation where you're smitten you're carried away by unreasoned passion where you look and you're infatuated by jesus you can't take your eyes off him an infatuation really it's about adoration it's about passion and love all that i am and all that's within me adores you god i'm so infatuated with you i've discovered you i've been fascinated by you i've read about you in this book and i can't help but be infatuated now to adore to be passionate to love you to pour myself out at your feet as a drink offering and it's that song of solomon infatuation as someone is commenting that song of solomon infatuation of god i'm coming away with you and all my attention is fixed on you so in jesus name i list to you that call into infatuation that you will be one who is carried away by unreasoned passion for god by unreason passion for jesus that you will adore him that you will love him and that you will pour yourself out at his feet because he's worth that then finally so we started with fascination then second infatuation and third obsession obsession and that's the mark of the people that are starting to stand up across the face of the earth that's the giants that nate was talking about that's the tall people the mature people the giants you see to be obsessed means to be emotionally preoccupied by jesus it means for jesus to fill your mind and for every thought that is inside of you to begin with jesus to continue with jesus and to end with jesus to be obsessed means that everything you do has connection to jesus that it flows from him it flows through him and it flows to him that to be obsessed is ultimately then the mark of radical devotion of extreme surrender and then of abundant life for when you lay your life down as the this generation of jesus obsessed people will be you shall find your life for it is in laying it down that it shall be resurrected there isn't laying it down that life shall be truly found that it is in being obsessed with jesus that so your life will come alive and so radical devotion so surrender and obedience shall flow from you and this is why god is saying there is a sovereign encounter a sovereign season of encounter because he's leading you from fascination into infatuation into obsession so that he can make you and he can he can bring you into graft you into this new breed of people that is like the jesus people but it is new wine is not like it in many regards as well as more sustainable let me just say it's more sustainable because it's all about jesus he can graft you into this emerging army emerging breed of those who are jesus obsessed see this is what it means to be a burning one this is what it means to be a burning one to have encountered jesus to see him but not just i've encountered him over there or i encountered him last week but this is where you're coming to where your whole life becomes an encounter where your whole life becomes an encounter so jesus i want to encounter you because i want to know you i want to encounter you because i want to be fascinated by you i want to encounter you so that i can be infatuated by you i want to encounter you because i want to be obsessed by you god when you look at me i want you to see wonder i want you to see adoration i want you to see passion and untamed love god when you look at me i want you to see radical devotion i want you to see radical surrender i want you to see life that only comes from finding you when i lay my own life down god i want my whole life to become an encounter so just as we finish let me just give you some top tips for this because some of you are thinking how did i how do i get into how did i get into encounter and some of you i can feel it as well are feeling just that that kind of come here of god right now of him when you and to encounter create space a space that isn't occupied with other activities don't sit at your desk where you do work don't you know set on a chair where you read a book or watch tv don't go somewhere that you feel like is associated with an activity or a distracting thing create a space a physical space that can be your encounter space and start to wait and i know that sounds really simple but the prayer of god i'm waiting on you and don't rush away do not rush because in waiting particularly when you feel like you don't have you've not had an encounter yet desperation kind of like blind bartimaeus or the woman with the issue of blood that starts to rise in you and god follows desperation so in your waiting hunger starts to rise hunger starts to emerge and so encounter comes worship him and what i mean by that and this is really the final point i think and then then we'll bless you to go i would encourage you this when you worship god in in the context of encounter choose songs that have a lot of space don't choose songs that have millions and millions of words to sing now there is a place for them absolutely right and you need them when you're worshiping and your purpose is to praise and your purpose is to just sing a song to the lord but when you want to meet with him choose songs that are simple but have lots of melodic space and lots of lyrical space because that gives you time to enter into what you're singing amen well thanks nate for sharing we'll be back with you tomorrow uh we have pastor john as i said we're talking about explosive joy we're prophets so we like big words it wasn't just joy yeah we decided to title it explosive joy because uh of uh because we're profits we like big words so uh we will see you tomorrow nate myself will be joining you again with pastor john top tips for stewarding joy why joy is important warning over the things that are stealing your joy etc etc etc and and for another great hour of power for power hour have a great day and please do let us know tomorrow if you have an encounter with god messages comment on tomorrow's power hour and we will see you 12 midday tomorrow 15th of july for episode 59 for explosive joy see you then [Music] do [Music] you

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