Shawn Bolz: Who Does God Speak To? | Translating God

prophecy is like the technology of love and the kingdom it helps us to connect to god's original intention his plan and his love we get to see through prophecy what he sees what he hears and how he feels and when you know what god's original intention is when you can tell the god who created us outside of time and spent the equivalent of billions of years on each one of us when you can see his original plan for somebody when you could hear his original thoughts for somebody it's a conversation changer it changes everything there's nothing like being someone who gives good news to others news that not only encourages but also transforms god loves to reveal his heart to us and for us and one way he does this is through the prophetic now there's a lot of stigma attached to that i do the prophetic words but today i want to show you when we operate the prophetic the way god designed it we can help reveal his heart to others in really life-changing ways you can prophesy so let's get into this exciting topic it's not as complicated as you might think [Music] i was on a plane headed to another country and there was a man sitting next to me and he started to engage a conversation that was way deeper than you normally go with you know person who's a stranger and it was awesome to hear his background his life his family and then i shared a little bit about what i was working with anti-human trafficking being a christian working on transformation these kinds of things he said i'm a christian too and we had this deep conversation it was so good and then he got up to walk away and i had this spiritual impression from god for him and i just felt i knew a little bit about his family and his wife and it was so profound that god would show me these things and he sat down next to me again and he said hey i'm really processing through my retirement and what i'm going to be doing and i sure can use some prayer and as he said that i said actually i was praying for you when you left and i had some spiritual thoughts for you can i share him with you he said well what does that mean i said you know i believe when we pray that god answers us so i want to share some of the answers that i had from him for you that might be helpful might be indicators or clues for you he said sure and i said do you have a wife named patricia is that her name and he said how do you know my wife's name i said god knows everything about you he created you and he shared a little bit with me and i felt like she wanted to go with you on a epic trip your whole life but you couldn't do it until retirement to italy is that true and i told him the town in italy he was shocked he was amazed i was amazed he was amazed and we began to just you know talk for a little while we talked about his daughter and his daughter was currently pregnant he had told me that so i said is your daughter having complications with this pregnancy and he got tears in his eyes he said yes i said let's pray for her because god has shown me that she's not going to have extreme complications the baby's going to be okay and she's going to be okay he's answering your prayers and he just said this is amazing i can't believe that god's showing you this like this is wild and and i said well he showed me one more thing he showed me that you're the air marshal and he said i'm not there marshall and they got really intense about it you know like like everything else he was like yes yes yes that one it wasn't just i'm not it was like oh i'm not the air marshal and so we flew out the rest of the trip and he was a little uncomfortable from that point on and when we got down we exchanged contact information i left him and i went to baggage claim and he put his hand on my shoulder at baggage claim he found me and he said i had to do a little background check on you because i am there marshall and i wasn't supposed to tell you that or you weren't supposed to know that on the plane and i can't believe you knew that and everything you said was so encouraging and i said well god wants to talk to you this way as well as a christian he lives inside of you he wants to do this with you as well and i believe it changed both of our lives in that moment now let's talk about prophecy because prophecy is like technology technology right now in our generation we have smart devices we have computers and laptops and ipads and virtual reality and we have facetime or skype and zoom and all these ways to talk to each other and to connect to each other and technology has created a place of connection that we've never had before i can instantaneously talk to my teams in in ecuador or in africa right now in this moment real time i can process things with people around the world and i love what technology has done in our generation because it's given us an instant jump off point to deeper conversations and relationship well prophecy is like the technology of love and the kingdom it helps us to connect to god's original intention his plan and his love we get to see through prophecy what he sees what he hears and how he feels and when you know what god's original intention is when you can tell the god who created us outside of time and spent the equivalent of billions of years on each one of us when you can see his original plan for somebody when you could hear his original thoughts for somebody it's a conversation changer it changes everything i love what paul says in first corinthians 14 1 where he says go after love like your life depends on it and eagerly desire that you might prophesy why would he say this what we see in first corinthians 2 what the prophetic is all about we see what no i have seen no ears heard god has in store for those who love him but we have perceived it by his spirit what this means is that the spirit according to first corinthians 2 searches the deepest parts of the father and the deepest parts of us and relates them to each other so we start to perceive what's in his heart what's in his mind what's in his his spirit over humanity over this world he loves this world so much he sent us son and we get to start to see why he loves the world and we get to start to call out and people around us what god loves about them and who they are to god and we get to treasure the seven point whatever billion people on the earth as though they're a part of his heart already now jesus hung out with very strange people we wouldn't have seen them the way that jesus saw them as a matter of fact we probably wouldn't have picked jesus's inner circle of friendship for him we would have picked people who were much more relevant to society or much greater in their leadership stature but jesus saw corey the father's original plan so he saw the fisherman and he saw you know the tax collectors and the prostitutes and he saw something in them that wasn't like a coach who just saw if i spend time with them i can invest my heart into them and they'll become a better version of themselves he saw them according to god's original plan he fellowshipped with the father's thoughts and the father's wisdom over their lives and he saw that these rowdy group of men and women could actually change all of culture and history forever they could transform the earth because of what was inside of them the dna that god had put inside of it was spiritual and he called that out he didn't just call out their gifts and their talents but he called out the very substance of the father's plan and heart now jesus paid such a high price on the cross it wasn't just a a getting better price it wasn't just like a little bit better you know like we get saved and we have a little bit of redemption it was a full redemption to what the father had originally planned in the first place and when he paid that price we've now entered into the cost of that price with him and sacrificing our lives so we could actually start to see what was in his original plan and call it forth in the world around us in our industries and our families and our churches and our lives that's that's what god's called us to do i love how jesus says in john 10 10 the enemy comes to devour and kill and destroy but i've come to give you life and life abundantly and when we understand prophecy it helps us to connect to what he's thinking and feeling and put action to that so we can translate what's in his heart and translate not only for ourselves but to the world around us and i've had some great translators in my life when you have a great translator you feel like you're talking through them and god wants you to be a translator for yourself but also for this world around us who's so broken and needs his voice and needs his heart so much you are called to prophesy you are called to hear from god in amazing ways and i want to prove it to you through this series

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Id: 391-ncWqBko

Length: 7min 18sec (438 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 18 2021