7 Keys to Understanding the Prophetic — Shane Idleman

Seven Keys to Understanding the Prophetic

1st Corinthians chapter 12 verse 8. I'm going through the whole book of 1st Corinthians and the title this morning. Are you ready for it? Seven keys to understanding the prophetic. Seven keys to understanding the prophetic.

Why the Prophetic Ministry Matters

And Why is this so important. Because the prophetic type of ministry is either? scorned and ridiculed or it's abused or it's Non-existent. And what do I mean about the prophetic? Well, God has given the church gifts gifts of the Holy Spirit and if you've been coming a while It's no secret to you that we believe that the Holy Spirit is still actively moving and giving gifts to the church based on 1st Corinthians 12 1st Corinthians 13 1st Corinthians 14 read all three of those chapters this week.

We believe that the Holy Spirit is still working. But what do I mean about the prophetic? Well, this is probably one of the most Misused or abused types of the gifts of Holy Spirit that there is of course.

There's tongues and that gets sometimes carried away. But overall this this moving of the Holy Spirit in the prophetic is where a lot of people have questions. So I'm hoping to answer those questions this morning.

Defining Prophecy as Edification and Admonition

But let me let me define what prophecy is based on the Strong's exhaustive concordance of the Bible. It's this Declaring the purposes of God whether by reproofing or admonishing the wicked or comforting the afflicted.

That's what the prophetic would do, especially in the Old Testament. It would either confront and convict the wicked or it would encourage and admonish those who are living for God. So what God does we believe is he gives gifts of the Holy Spirit to edify and build up the church.

But because there's a lot of confusion in this area, I'm just gonna stick with the scriptures. Is that okay? Okay, good. And I've been praying for the last half hour that God would have me Would help me remember all the examples I gave at the first service so if I don't think of all of them you might want to watch the first service because I gave some examples of The prophetic operating in the life of the church and my own personal life and things I've seen over the years but I want to read 1st Corinthians chapter 12 verse 8 and the context is you'll remember from last week if you're here last week is That God gave different ministries to the church.

The Holy Spirit gives different ministry different callings. Different functions in the church all that we can operate as one body. United in the cause of for Christ. So what he's called you to do is different than what he's called me to do is what's different than he's called someone on this Side of the room to do and definitely something different in the balcony, right?

We all have different callings and God uses all of those for the furtherance of the kingdom for the furtherance of the message of the gospel. So here's how he does that for to one person He has given the word of wisdom through the Spirit to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit to another faith by the same Spirit to another gifts of healings.

By the same Spirit to another the working of miracles to another prophecy to another discerning of spirits to another different kinds of tongues to another the Interpretation of tongues, but one in the same Spirit works all these things why?

Distributing to each one of us individually as he wills. So in a healthy church, the Holy Spirit is working. Amen, but so is the demonic realm. And I've noticed that in dead churches. There's not much going on Demonic wise and in we're churches.

There's demonic stuff going on of course but when a Holy Spirit is powerfully moving in a church the demonic realm is awakened as well a Person goes home excited about church. They've been filled with the Spirit of God.

Guess what the spouse might not agree. The family might disagree the co-workers. Have you ever had co-workers get upset at you because you're love Jesus you you upset the demonic realm when you're filled with the Spirit so here's what's happening in this church a person would be given a word of wisdom or a word of knowledge or prophetic word or gifts of healings or faith.

So the whole church is built up and we're gonna be working through some of these in the next week or two but I want to focus primarily on Prophecy and prophecy is in a nutshell when God Spontaneously brings something to mind that we are often to share with other people or it might be.

So he brings something spontaneously to your mind to give you wisdom or counsel or insight on a certain situation. Now, why would we think that's weird when God can create the universe? People think well, that's just kind of weird, you know, why would God do this and we have God's Word.

That's what they say and as a big proponent of God's Word. Thank God for God's Word, but often Sometimes God will use the Holy Spirit will use things that I call supplemental in other words if the Holy Spirit Put something on somebody's mind and they share that with the person and that person is set free or that person is encouraged they didn't they didn't really find that in Matthew chapter 1 or John chapter 4 or because some things God needs to speak to us Prophetically in order to help and encourage let me give you a few examples.

A Prophetic Word That Brings Healing

Oh, they're coming to mind now. Praise God Prophetically now just kind of I'm kind of joking on that one. I think these are just things I'm remembering from the first service, but there was a man David Ravenhill I've shared this example before and some of you remember it.

It's Leonard Ravenhill son David Ravenhill and he was telling of a story about a man that that God put something at his heart at a They're at a dinner and there was a missionary girl there. She was in her 20s I believe and God put something on his heart that's called a prophetic word to speak to this girl.

But what God put on his heart seemed weird. It seemed off and that was tell her that I hate mommies and daddies. And the guy was like I'm not gonna tell her that that doesn't seem to be of the Lord. That's more not of the Lord or it's my own personal thoughts.

I mean, I don't I don't know what to do with this. So he sit there but the pressure have you ever been pressured by the Holy Spirit? It's not it's like I got to get this out. That's how I feel every Sunday by the way, and then every Monday I gotta start over again.

And but people when the Holy Spirit is pressuring you to deliver a message or to tell somebody there's this. There's this pressure and it you have to go to them. So after about an hour, he finally said listen, I just need to share this with you so I can release this burden but I believe God put on my heart to share with you that he hates mommies and daddies, too and the girl started crying and she just kind of just went down in this convulsion and and and just and They didn't know what was going on.

But later she shared that she's been a prisoner of unforgiveness and different things because of an abuse by an uncle. Who used to say let's play mommies and daddies and so God used that prophetic word to tell her?

I hate mommies and daddies, too. I hate what they did to you and God used that prophetic word to break those chains of bondage and and that she was living In that that that prison so that's what the the prophetic is for it goes and it speaks into lives into situations by the power of God.

Testing Prophetic Experiences Against Scripture

But do we have to be careful? Yes, we wear a seat belt. We believe in in gifts of the Holy Spirit and I often say I'm conservative but I put a seat belt or charismatic. But I put a seat belt on. I believe in the power and the gifts of the Holy Spirit because largely I've experienced them.

I've experienced with Paul experience and it lines up with Scripture. Remember, we've taught this often that we don't judge Scripture based on our experience. We we judge our experience based on Scripture.

So if we see it in the Word of God if it's encouraged in the Word of God, it's something to be embraced. So let's look at number one seven keys to understanding the prophetic number one prophecy isn't Really about predicting the future a lot of people think that is what our prophets saying.

Key One: Prophecy Is Not Primarily Prediction

What are people saying about? Predicting the future but looking at the New Testament. I like what rain Wayne Grudem said. He's got a great book on systematic theology. He said although several definitions have been given for the gift of prophecy a fresh Examination of the New Testament teaching on this gift will show that it should be defined not as predicting the future.

Not as proclaiming a word from the Lord nor as powerful preaching. But rather as telling someone Something that God has spontaneously put on your mind it's prophetic and we'll get into this in a minute, but what he said here is absolutely right about Proclaiming from the Lord because we encourage people don't say thus sayeth the Lord.

We better make sure that God has put something on your heart. Usually we would we encourage hey, I feel impressed by God I feel led by the Holy Spirit to share this with you discern it test it do whatever you want with it.

But I want to share this with you, but to say thus sayeth the Lord. Who got to be careful? Because they would actually test prophets in the Old Testament by if it came to pass or not if it comes to pass.

They're legitimate if it doesn't they're stoned to death. So God took takes us very seriously and we don't see people in the New Testament saying thus Sayeth the Lord because what you're basically saying is this that has been downloaded in my mind is Absolutely of God thus sayeth the Lord meaning no human thoughts have came in there.

We didn't add any hamburger helper. We didn't you know, just want to encourage people that we're we have to be careful. We don't say thus sayeth the Lord and Jesus no longer calls for his followers prophet.

He calls them Apostles. Probably because the Greek word for prophet at the time of the New Testament had a very broad range of meaning. It basically meant one who speaks on the basis of some external influence.

That's why we have to be careful in this area. So number one prophecy is not really about predicting the future. Although that could happen. It's really about God Spontaneously bringing something to mind in order for you to share with someone else the edification.

To build them up to encourage to warn them and it is undergirded by Scripture. We'll get to that tune a minute. So number two Prophecy may not be a word of knowledge or a word of wisdom. Prophecy might not be a word of knowledge or a word of wisdom.

Key Two: Distinguishing Prophecy, Knowledge, and Wisdom

Now here's why I say that some people put prophecy a word of wisdom of word of knowledge all in the same Underneath the same umbrella and also they do I mean they do. There there are similarities there, but I believe because the Holy Spirit Gave them as gifts given by the Holy Spirit.

I would look at them differently word of wisdom word of knowledge. Prophetic type of word. I would look at them a little bit differently. However, Wayne Grudem back to him He sees them as non-miraculous or ordinary because the word wisdom Simply means the ability to speak a wise word in various situations and the word of knowledge is to have insight into a particular Situation so he would see that any mature Christian any mature Christian would have the word of wisdom of word of knowledge based on their maturity.

But I see them more as a gift that God gives at a certain period. I'm going to give you the item and paraphrase already. Prophecy is to rebuke or comfort. Whereas knowledge is supernatural knowledge about a situation and a word of wisdom is a supernatural Counsel on what direction is best what direction is wise?

Now, of course these could be mingled together whether they're all one whether they're separate really. It's not it's not an issue to divide over. It's it's more personal preference on what you read in the scripture.

But I believe again prophecy is to rebuke someone or it's to comfort someone or it's that to encourage someone. Where God gives somebody a prophetic a word of knowledge. Means, you know something that was unknown by a few seconds ago.

It might even be unknown for the for the person. But God gives you a word of knowledge about a certain situation. You can speak into that situation or a word of wisdom a word of wisdom is supernatural downloading of giving somebody wise advice so you see how they could all three be intermingled and it's it's it's no big deal if a person believes that they are but Because the Holy Spirit listed them as three different gifts one would think that they are three different gifts in that capacity.

Dreams, Visions, and Divine Guidance

But what about dreams and visions? Oh Shane's getting weird. But did God not lead people through dreams and visions? Jesus was spared. I mean, of course, you know God's sovereignty. Nothing could have killed Jesus.

I mean it was here's God's plan you Herod you can try to kill all the babies under two. It's not gonna work, but he was. Joseph was had a dream to leave to flee Bethlehem to get out or to flee where they were and to get into Bethlehem and then again dream again to get into Egypt.

The wise men had dreams not to go back to Herod. Daniel had dreams a king would warn or God would warn a king about a marrying Abrams wife. Because of a dream so I God can move in all these areas. We just have to be careful that we don't put too much emphasis into them.

So I believe God gives dreams. I begin Believe that he still gives visions today. I don't spend a lot of time on it. I don't think too much about it. We don't get carried away with it. But it is something that I don't think we can discredit because God spoke to people even in the New Testament with visions.

I'll give you an idea of something that happened to me a while back. I was going into Grace Fest and we had we had 1 ,500 books. I was gonna we're gonna give out or different books and I had this this impression of the sprinklers coming on.

On the grass and I'm like, oh that's that's crazy. Well, guess what happened? So I park I get there and I'm like these people come out Shane. We're so sorry. Everything's ruined the sprinklers came on automatically and but I was like, oh, that's so I mean I was prepared for that.

Now you can might say well that was coincidence. Well, okay, not me. You know, so God prepares us for things like that and you and you see certain things I remember a month ago. I shared this with some of you.

I had a dream very vivid dream. It woke me up. Do you ever have those dreams just wake you up and you're like, thank God, that's not true. And now it's God speaking to you sometimes and you know again being careful.

I'm open, but I'm cautious. I trust God, but I don't trust me. I trust God, but I don't trust the enemy. I trust God, but I don't trust human nature. So we have to sift and filter a lot of the stuff through God's Word discernment waiting on God.

A Dream About Spiritual Opposition

But it was about a month ago and there was this huge black jaguar. And it came it kept coming at me right to my face didn't bite me didn't attack me. And and I kept just moving and here it would come and somebody said Shane I remember it put put the put the light in front of them like the light of the gospel or the light of God's Word.

And that will that will that will change it. And so I tried that and guess what it just walks around the light right to my face. I'm like, whoa, and no matter what room I would go into it was just as jaguar.

I'm like Lord I don't know what to do with that. Well that week and I even text a few people I wonder if this has to do with this situation that's coming up. I I had a Jehovah Witness come over for two hours and I debated him with my kids sitting there.

Listening in and he was dressed in black and I can't every time I bring the word. Just right around it. You know, I mean they know their stuff. I mean, it's like they they know what they're supposed to like.

And just no matter what I said with the Word of God just always coming around it always in my. Always back into this and it was the most exhausting to our talk I've ever had. Bar none. I was exhausted mentally and in spirits like your mind is a mental gymnastics.

You're thinking of What he's not see here what we're reading the same scripture. But differently you're twisting it that Jesus is not God that he was an angel that there's no hell that we shouldn't even vote.

We shouldn't even sell holiday. We shouldn't celebrate holidays, too. We think that we don't actually it was the most alarming thing I've ever had. It's okay. Can I open in prayer and they said well, I don't know we don't pray to Jesus like Hmm, okay, and you can only say Jehovah.

You can't say Lord you say God you can't say it's only Jehovah. It's Jehovah and Shane the Bible you have is corrupted because it says Lord and God say I don't care if a deaf person Says the wrong word says the wrong word up at his heart.

You can cry out to God. You can say Lord God Almighty a creator of heaven and earth Elohim Yahweh Jehovah my God my provider see it's a condition of the heart. It's not your word your your lips saying just the right words.

Actually if you want to get tech, let's get technical. Let's get technical. It wasn't even Jehovah. It was Yahweh in the way in the Word of God was so sacred. They wouldn't even say Yahweh. They use four valves to say God's name.

But see how we get caught up on this legalism and I was exhausted. I remember that dream I and I was built up and Encouraged again. I'm like, okay that was supposed to happen because I thought he's gonna be converted and repent right there.

I was a little upset and frustrated. It's just they it's just so exhausting. He said Shane. There's nowhere in the Bible. Does it say the word Trinity? And I said nowhere in the Bible. Does it say the word Bible right?

We use we use terminology the triune nature of God. Take it up with him. I Just know doesn't say that Jesus was created. He's an archangel. We're not supposed to why do we worship Jesus? You can't worship an angel.

He said I and the Father am one. There is there is a hierarchy though that Jesus submits to the will of the Father. The group fathers greater than me. I don't understand. I don't try to understand God.

I just understand what God has presented in his Word. I'm not worried about what I don't understand in the Word. I'm worried about what I do understand in the Word. That God will be highly exalted that he has given Jesus the name above every name that every knee every knee will bow and every Tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

You either do it on this side of eternity or you wish to God that you had done it later. Yeah, every knee will bow. This is not an option. He's not a choice on a menu. He is the Lord Jesus Christ. That's why the demonic realm hates that name.

That's why the school districts hate that name. You can go watch any Disney movie and they'll talk about magic and this and that but you mentioned Jesus in the movie. You just upset the whole culture.

Connie West had went into prison and minister to prisoners now atheists are upset because he mentioned Jesus. Why why are people so upset at that name? There's power in the name. That's why it's the only name that breaks every chain.

It's the only name that that demons have to a person filled with God's Spirit who speaks the name of Jesus that the demonic Realm has no authority. Do you understand that they have no authority people have told me Shane.

There's witches cursing the church. There's people filled with the demons come and disrupt. I don't care. God sits on the throne. They work for him. He is sovereign. He is under your control. No demon in hell is going to scare me out of my destiny.

Christ as the Foundation Against Spiritual Attack

No weapon form will come against me or you as long as you stay on the rock of Jesus Christ and you build on that Solid foundation. What demon is going to destroy the plans of God? I love that song. We did Sunday.

I believe it was. Who is going to stop God Almighty? That's the title of Wednesday's message actually, so you might want to be here who is going to stop God Almighty. Can you tell me that can you answer that?

Nobody, no one is going to stop God. I Get going. I'm not going to make it. So number two, there's lots of rabbit trails. Number two Prophecy already explained this one prophecy may not be a word of knowledge or a word of wisdom.

They might be separate. This is kind of where I disagree with some people. But again, it's not a big deal whether they're all three labeled under prophecy or they're separate distinct moving to the Holy Spirit.

We know that they are all biblical. Number three. Number three, whoa, I wish I could get this out there in the charismatic community. Prophecy is not equal to Scripture. Amen. Prophecy is not equal to Scripture.

Key Three: Prophecy Is Not Equal to Scripture

I tell people all the time. They say Shane. I got a prophetic word. Don't put it above prop. Don't put it above Scripture. Don't don't live your life based on what others tell you don't live your life on what others say live it on what God says.

I love godly counsel, but over the years I've asked godly counsel and they've been opposed. Well, I think you should do this. I think you should. What am I supposed to trust God's Word and he him speaking to you?

I believe you don't need somebody else to speak into your life all the time. It's good. It's encouraging. But there was something many years ago called the shepherding movement. You ever heard of that you couldn't go bike buy a car unless you asked your spiritual covering if you could go buy a car.

That's dangerous. You couldn't marry someone unless you go to your spiritual covering and ask you should I marry this person shepherding its control now. There's some good aspects of that. There's always good mixed in with the air.

The good aspect is you have wise counsel above you you seek the advice of others but ultimately the responsibilities left up to you and to God because not everyone is Speaking on behalf of God into your life.

They have good opinions and many of us are biased, right? Aren't we bias if you come to me and you say Shane? I'm thinking I should move out of state. I'll tell you don't. Cuz I'm biased. I like you here.

See how might see how my my my emotions play into it. No, don't move just to hear God thus saith the Lord. Thus saith the Lord you are to stay in California contend with the rest of us. Amen. But you ask you ask you as soon as my dad and my daughters will say dad should I get married?

No, you're not gonna get ever get married. I'm gonna build. I'm gonna build five houses out back and we're all you're you're there's a vow. They're taking a vow of Virginia for the rest of your life. My wife says Shane you got to start praying for their.

No, I don't. I can't even have that's their little girls. They're just tiny little girls. Stop it. Stop it but see my my my my my Desire my my desires will come out in my advice and my counsel. But on the flip side, there's good advice and counsel.

I wouldn't encourage anyone if your parents are Christians ask them what they think of Dating such-and-such or marriage to ask them for their advice. Because often you're in lust not love. Oh I just love that.

No you lust after them. You're attracted and others can sometimes say hey, this is gonna be very dangerous. And but God can work through all that God can work through difficult situations. So if you're in a difficult situation look to God not others is my point.

So prophecy is not equal to scriptures. Prophets did not speak with the same authority. Equal to scriptures in the New Testament Old Testament. The scriptures were written by the prophets New Testament.

You have the gift of the prophetic but the canonization of scripture Paul's letters the Pauline epistles have already been done and completed. You don't somebody doesn't have to say thus sayeth the Lord.

Here's a new revelation if I ever say that there's the exit doors. If I ever say you know what? I know God's Word says this but he's revealing something different to me. That's that's different than the head head for the exits.

I've lost my mind and This is what happens if you go back and you watch the hour-long audio. We did at Fox News in New York with that pastor Who believes in gay marriage and would encourage people to embrace a gay lifestyle if they struggle with that.

He actually said in that that the Holy Spirit is doing something new today. That's false teaching that's blasphemous. That's heretical. That's a false prophet a false proclaimer of God's truth. Yeah, I'm just saying that love.

I'm not angry. I'm not me. I email him still I'm praying for you. Love to meet love to catch up, you know, because we're contending for truth. But that's what that's what happens when we begin to believe our own.

Well, Shane, I don't feel that way anymore. I don't care how you feel. What's the Bible say? This was a defining moment in Billy Graham's career there was somebody actually a more gifted preacher than Billy Graham by the name of Charles Templeton and He went on to reject the Bible.

Because he let liberal philosophy persuade him. And I believe he even died an atheist. They did it. They did a program on on him and People say well see you can drift away. I don't even know if he was saved.

Honestly, you can be gifted you can be charismatic. You can be doing things for the wrong reasons and I believe he drifted away because of that liberal mindset and Billy Graham said God. All I know he was a stump.

She said on a tree stump where he put the Bible on a tree stump up in the hills here Arrowhead Lake Arrowhead in that area or right mountain rock. Right wood or somewhere and he said God. I'm standing on the authority of your God's Word.

I'm building on your word. I'm building my ministry on your word and he from that point a moment on. He never rejected God's Word again as far as doubting I should say now if doubts come into your mind, that's okay.

What do you do with the doubts? Sometimes the enemy will hit me with with doubts to you know, like Shane do you really think this sermon is gonna be good today? It's not it's gonna stink. Do you really think geez, you know and these doubts because they're part of our sinful nature.

That's where the enemy fires fires darts at us. But we have to remember prophecy is not equal to Scripture. So if somebody gives you a prophetic word you say, okay. Thank you, and you move on. You don't let it you don't let it.

Change your course necessarily unless you know man God brought that it convicted me. That's exactly what I've been praying about it lines up with Scripture. I need to move on that that that's not it. Not a half had a half hazard decision or half hearted decision because you prayed about it you waited on God it lines up with the Scripture number four prophecy has boundaries.

Key Four: Prophecy Has Boundaries

Prophecy has boundaries if God brings something spontaneously to the mind of the person. Prophesying they would report it to in his or her own words. Paul would call this as we're reading here a revelation.

So when Paul God would give someone a revelation. Have you ever had that? Revelation God has brought something. I've he's helped me find my car keys. I'm convinced a couple times you might think that's you might think that's minimal.

But I've there's been times where there's no and I get this idea of where I oh, that's right. Just boom right to my right revelation right to the right to the heart of the matter. Paul calls this a revelation if a revelation is made to another sitting by let the first be silent.

That's what he said in church. So with prophecy there are boundaries. In other words, we don't disrupt services. Are the people giving or saying they want to share something. Are they proven is their character known to the church or they just coming in?

Nobody knows him and they're gonna speak on behalf of God. We don't even know who this person is. So prophecy has boundaries and be careful of those who don't want to sit underneath those boundaries. Modas will come out and we can tell when we start saying hey, here's here's how we do it.

Like I knew you weren't spirit-filled Church. You're not gonna let me give a word. I don't even know you what I knew you're quenching and grieving the spirit. No, I think you're quenching you the spirit by your arrogance.

I've had people come in and we were Lancaster you come and go. Hey, I've got this word that God's from my heart and I'm like, what is it like? Oh, I don't know. It doesn't see and I don't even know the person.

It's his first time there and then that was his last time there because he got upset that the church wouldn't let him give. Some word you see that work a true person called by God is humble. They understand.

They don't their whole character isn't based on your perception of them there. They know who they are in God. This is another beef I have about putting prophet or Apostle on your business card. Get that off.

We don't need to know that your prophet such-and-such or Apostle such-and-such. You should be Christian humble such-and-such. You don't need these these flyers that are out there prophets such-and-such coming to the store near you.

He's gonna have a great healing service. Look at this prophet. This is an Apostle such-and-such. No, just be broken before God say we're gonna contend for healing tonight. We invite all who are heavy laden to come and rest in who Christ is.

We're gonna pray for the miraculous, but I'm not gonna put my face on a big poster. I'm not gonna put prophet and Apostle and highlight me because all we do is we highlight Christ and you better get out of the Way, that's when the miracles flow the miracles flow when you humble yourself.

And you get out of the way and you exalt Christ and you say God work through this humble broken vessel. If you don't heal we can't do anything if you don't set free. We can't do anything. The power is in the power of the Holy Spirit working through a humble believer.

Oh My lord, I see him all over Facebook. Don't you? Healing service. Apostle such-and-such. Prophetess such-and-such. And When you challenge him on that the arrogance is so thick. Because they don't understand that you have to come under scripture you have boundaries.

And I'll drop a bombshell on some people right now. The more God grows your ministry, you don't exalt yourself. The more he more he grows you the more humble you should become. It's the opposite effect.

The more he grows us the more humble we should become. I pray them a lot more humble now than I was nine years ago. A lot of you guys don't know it, but we have the radio stations 30 40 50 radio stations across the United States.

I've picked up the messages 30 40 50 thousand people a week. Listen, it's it's and but see that that should cause more humility saying but wasn't for the grace of God there go I it's God's work. You think it's a stupid country boy from oak from Courts Hill is Going to do all this.

My lord, I've got some oceanfront property in Arizona, too. Just saw that old country song George Strait, right? I don't know who it is, but I don't know what that was it. That was not a prophetic my rabbit trail.

But see the more God raises you up the more humble you become the more God raises you up the more humble you become. If I could tell our president one thing that would be it Humble your humble yourself.

Tweet humility tweet grace talk talk highly of others. So prophecy has boundaries. Number five prophecy is not about powerful preaching because many times we'll say man. That was prophetic not necessarily.

Key Five: Prophecy Is Not Simply Powerful Preaching

Powerful preaching is just coming from someone filled with the Spirit of God. Proclaiming God's Word they could have been Saturating on it all week and and it's not necessarily something God is bringing spontaneously to mind now granted during preaching.

I believe often somebody who's filled God's Spirit. God will speak prophetically during a certain passage and they'll just take a rabbit trail or they'll they'll get right to the situation. They'll speak right to something somebody something someone somebody.

Something someone is dealing with and this happens more than any other thing that happens during sermons. We get emails from different people and people in the congregation. You see that part of the sermon man that really Resonated with where I'm at that and I'm like that wasn't even in the notes that I had no clue I was going to say that I just as a scripture comes out and God puts it now.

Maybe it's things he's put in my mind from years ago I don't know but something's come out and it speaks to people. Individually and what's what cracks me up more than anything else is every probably every other week.

Maybe maybe every three weeks somebody will say That was the best Sermon, I've heard all year that real and then somebody else will say well No, that was a bet and that well, which one is it? I mean what because it's hitting people at different spots in their life.

So somebody can leave and go. Oh, I'm just crying the prayer room. I needed that. Thank you so much. And somebody else can go. Oh, I don't know there goes Shane again. He's getting all loud. But then you speak in a different situation, that's a Holy Spirit movie what what Holy.

Only the Holy Spirit. This is what cracks me up to only the Holy Spirit can convict someone of their sin. They go to the prayer room and they repent. But at the same time it can encourage a single mom who's trying to raise their kids at the same time.