"Sharpening Your Spiritual Senses: Prophetic Hacks & Upgrades" S1 E5

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A.W. Tozier is quoted as saying, when the Spirit illuminates the heart, then a part of a man

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sees that which he never saw before.

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Religion has offered the world a historical God that seems absent from everyday life,

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so the question remains, is there a revelatory life hack that can upgrade the prophetic touch

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on you and scratch the itch of a spiritually starved generation?

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Stay tuned as we shift the satellite for you on sharpening your spiritual senses, along

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with 5 prophetic hacks to upgrade your spiritual sensitivity.

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Hey guys, my name is Emily Baca.

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I am from the Renton, Washington area and I am just so thankful for this podcast.

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I'm grateful for these two prophetic voices and I love how they tag team their topics

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and infuse solid theology with their message.

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Enjoy today on Keep It 100.

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Hey everybody, we are back with you.

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This is Keep It 100 with Sean and Christa Smith.

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Hey.

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And we just want to take a moment and thank all of you listeners.

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Because of you, we got put to the top 10% of all downloads for our new podcast.

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So that's to you guys.

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Thank you for putting us in the top 10%.

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We're super grateful for you guys getting the word out.

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Just keep doing that.

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It's so good that people have been listening in and we've got such great feedback.

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It's funny because Christa, we've been traveling so much.

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Last three weeks, we've been in Seattle, Dallas and we've been in Baltimore.

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So we've been traveling a little bit.

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We have and it's kind of interesting.

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Like you said, it gives us a bit of an aerial view of what's going on.

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And really we're seeing more and more people long for the spirit of God to move.

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And so we're seeing such a desire for the supernatural like never before.

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We're having so many questions.

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There's such a hunger for the supernatural in a time where we've been on a global pause

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and a time where people have been in isolation.

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They're like, okay, God, I want to encounter you.

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Along with that, I was thinking too, how much I feel challenged as a believer to want to

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step up my game, to walk in sensitivity, lockstep with the Holy Spirit.

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I love that AW told your quote that essentially when God comes on a person, he enables him

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to see what he didn't see.

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Because I feel like typically of left to ourselves, we sometimes walk in a spiritual doneness

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where we don't feel particularly clued into what the Holy Spirit is saying and doing.

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But like you said, there's a hunger in the house.

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And I remember years ago, I was just started traveling in itinerant ministry and it was

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like an Applebee's restaurant in the front.

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They had hired this kind of magician.

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As we walked in, the guy, I thought was going to do your basic card trick.

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And so he held the deck in front of me as he says, hey, pick a card.

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And I'm getting ready to pick a card.

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He says, no, I just want you to think about the card that you had picked.

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I don't want you to actually put your hands on it.

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The deck was face down.

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So I immediately stopped for a moment and had this thought come to me to a space.

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And the guy looked at me almost about the time I got the thought and he says, to a space

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too easy, pick another card.

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And so immediately in my head, I just kind of got this thought, Queen of Diamonds.

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So he shuffles the deck and then he reaches into the deck and pulls out a Queen of Diamonds.

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He says, is this your card?

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And I just walked away.

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I freaked out.

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And I believe some of those guys, it's just card tricks, but this dude was tapping into

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something demonic.

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For sure.

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And maybe some people listening, you're kind of like, I don't know if I believe that's

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out there.

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Well, the Bible says that the enemy can shoot thoughts.

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We call it temptation.

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When God speaks to us, it's called revelation.

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So I believe that guy was so demonically inspired.

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He heard what the enemy was shooting in terms of suggestions and he said it to me.

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So what I really walked away with was, hey, I'm challenged to step up my prophetic game.

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It's my Carmel time listeners.

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And we've got to understand our God is the God that answers by fire.

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We live in a world where there is so much supernatural activity and the film industry

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and the TV shows and the video games and so much of what we qualify as entertainment is

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supernatural based.

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And then we come into a church and we don't have the supernatural spirit of God moving.

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And people think that's going to freak people out.

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And you're like, okay, look at what people are feeding themselves on in their entertainment

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level.

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Clearly there's an appetite and a hunger for something bigger than you.

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They're looking for it elsewhere in the place they should be finding at the church.

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It's pretty absent in North American church.

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And I believe there is a invitation at this time, this hour in history, where we have

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had this kind of quietness.

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It has provoked a seeking in people.

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It has provoked a longing to go, okay, God, are you real?

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Number one.

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And then those that have just been curious spiritually and they've been seeking elsewhere

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through alternative, you know, non-Jesus methods of wanting to have an encounter with

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the spiritual realm.

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And I believe we have an assignment, but also a spiritual responsibility to bring a genuine

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encounter to a spiritually seeking world.

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And I see such a hunger, there's such a deficit of the true encounter with God.

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And I believe your example of the guy with the magician, he was absolutely tapping into

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something real, you know, so many times people are like, is that real?

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Is magic real?

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Absolutely.

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Like we have, we have a heavenly realm and we have a demonic realm.

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There is a heaven and there is a hell.

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There is light and there is darkness.

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And if we don't actually acknowledge the reality of darkness and light and there is

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a source, it's a counterfeit source, but it's a source and it does not have more power

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than God.

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God is the ultimate authority.

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So let's, let's not get that twisted.

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Let's not give the enemy more power than he has.

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God sent his only son to defeat the enemy.

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So what I love is the enemy is already conquered and as you and I in blood covenant with Jesus,

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we are enforcing that victory that Jesus has already established.

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So I bring that up simply that we have to walk out who we're called to be and we have

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a spiritual responsibility to upgrade our spiritual senses, which is what we're talking

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about today so that we can bring that encounter, not for just for us, but for those around us.

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We are around broken people all the time that are so longing to have an encounter with God.

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When we have walked in a deeper place of the prophetic in discernment and signs, wonders

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and miracles, you know, we're able to minister to people that are longing for something bigger

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than them.

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And his name is Jesus, we're the carriers of who he is.

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Your point is just so accurate because if we don't tap into what our birthright is,

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we stand the chance to lose the ear of a generation.

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Come on.

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And as we said and spoke about on our previous podcast, the Genesis of a Voice, one of the

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things we established, I believe it was two episodes ago, is that as we hear the voice

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of God, we can become his voice in the earth.

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Say that.

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And that's where we're at.

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And Jesus extended this invitation in John chapter 14 verse 12.

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He says, the works I've been doing, you will do and greater works in these shall you do.

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So what he's declaring is that the supernatural ministry would be the new normal for all believers.

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Well, God has us in a space where he wants us to come into a new normal and it's hearing

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his voice.

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Joel 2, another great passage, lets us know that God will part his spirit on all flesh,

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sons and daughters will prophesy.

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So he's letting us know that the last day's awakening will be a prophetic awakening.

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It will be a place where our senses will be sensitized, sharpened to hear the voice of

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God.

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And I've been saying this one time in a deli, the sign said, sharp is safe, dull is dangerous.

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And what he obviously meant was that the sharp knife, you don't have to push very hard.

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There's very little chance of the knife slipping and cutting you, but if it's dull, the knife

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could slip and cut you.

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And I feel like that is the statement for today.

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Sharp is safe, being spiritually dull in this hour is dangerous.

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So true because the ability to track with Holy Spirit will prove to be one of the most

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crucial skill sets that you and I are called to possess right now.

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And the reason why that's so crucial is because you and I are called to give an encounter

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to people.

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And if we have the ability to possess tracking with what Holy Spirit's doing and saying,

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God, I'm running some errands, but if you want to bring me some divine appointments,

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if you want to bring me some people in wheelchair so I can pray for them to get healed, if you

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bring me someone that needs a prophetic word because they are contemplating suicide right

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now, God, bring them into my path.

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And I have sharpened my spiritual senses to not just go about life, but to understand

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that I am bringing heaven wherever I go.

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I not only shift atmospheres, I release the kingdom of God.

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That is profound.

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I was about to shout you down, jump up and down, hop on other side of this podcast table,

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give you high five.

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The Lord is inviting us to sync with Him because Jesus said, I only do that which I see the

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Father do.

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And that which the Father does, the Son does likewise.

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So we're to sync with heaven, but you can't sync with what you don't sense.

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You don't sense where God is at.

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You can't sync with what you don't sense.

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So true.

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You can't partner with something you're not aware of, right?

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You can't own something that you don't know you can possess.

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And so there has to be this awareness.

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There has to be an agreement.

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There has to be this collaboration with what God and Holy Spirit are doing.

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This can we become aware of who dwells within us and who's around us.

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You know, they got like the Long Island psychic.

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They got, I think, the Hollywood medium.

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And I look at that and I just go, okay, church, come on.

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This is our time.

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So to all our Keeper 100 tribe, I want to get defined sensitive for you.

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But Webster is defined sensitive as the means to have the capacity and ability to receive

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and perceive impressions from both the internal and external influences.

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So you say, Sean, kind of, what does that mean?

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Well, to say that you're sensitive means that you're in position and attuned to hear the

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voice of God.

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One of my, I don't rank this movie in terms of top five, top 10, but a movie of mine that

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I've always enjoyed and been challenged by is the movie Minority Report.

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But it has these, they call them precogs, but they were able to kind of sense when violence

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and crimes are going to take place.

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And so they would kind of alert them before, and I thought, what could be the capacity

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if we truly walked in tune with the spirit?

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Is it to the place where maybe the body of Christ could avoid, help a nation, help a

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city avoid calamities?

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Maybe you as an individual listening, God could speak to you in a way that could help

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a relative, help a neighbor, help a coworker.

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There's so much on the line with us being sensitive that I think it's so important and

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so vital that we do so.

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First we're in this chapter two, verse 12 says, we have not received the spirit of

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the world, but the spirit whereby we may know these things given by God.

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The reason why that scripture is important, I quote and have memorized that scripture

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and stand on it multiple times, particularly before I go into meetings.

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That God, you've not given me the spirit of the world.

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Why did he say that?

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Because the spirit of the world, it's back to that sign that was in the deli, sharp as

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safe dull as dangerous.

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The spirit of the world makes you dull.

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If all you do is feed and drink, it dulls you to the spirit of God.

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But it says God has not given you the spirit of the world, but a spirit whereby you may

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know those things.

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So that encourages me that it has been given to me to know it.

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It's not guesswork.

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That God has put it in me, the spirit of God will show me and the more I know it, the more

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I can flow with it.

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In 1 Corinthians chapter two, verse 12 says that we may know that things freely given

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us by God, it is the Greek word, eta, which means to be aware, to see, to be sure, to

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perceive.

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It means spiritual senses allowing you to receive direct revelation from God.

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That's so exciting to know that God has hardwired us to be aware of his movement, to be sure.

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I love that's in the definition.

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It speaks of spiritual senses allowing you to receive direct revelation from God.

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Keep it 100 tribe.

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What's so important is we're going to give them some really practical things.

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I want to ask some questions to you about how do we develop this in our own lives and

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how have we walked this out?

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Because you and I were like a few decades deep.

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What are some of the primary ways that you've sensitized your spirit and how you've connected

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with God?

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I'm more of a Word person, but I would say the primary way, waiting.

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Bible says, them that wait upon the Lord, He will renew their strength.

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What matters with wings is egos.

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That thing about an ego.

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Ego has the most keen eyesight and perception of any bird.

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And I think that there are ego Christians and ostrich Christians.

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Ostrich have plain eyesight and what little eyesight they have.

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They forfeit by sticking their head in the ground.

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Nobody's ever seen an ostrich.

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We have too many ostrich Christians.

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We need some ego Christians, but that verse says, them that wait upon the Lord, they will

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renew their strength, mount up with wings as egos.

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So I think that ego sensitivity comes from waiting.

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I've got some worship music in the background, but I don't notice say that I'm at that point

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in time singing the songs and trying to concentrate on the lyrics.

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I just get still before the Lord and as I wait, I feel like there's a calibration.

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You know, I'm really similar.

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I think I have noticed when I really need to connect with Holy Spirit and I have felt

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like a distraction.

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A lot of things are pulling on our time, our attention, our affection even.

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And so for me, probably my primary way I connect with God is worshiping.

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But what I've noticed lately for me is I have to do instrumental worship because I'll start

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singing and I just get distracted and it's wonderful to sing and worship.

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But right now I feel like my heart needs to be studied in the Lord.

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My heart needs to be anchored in the Lord.

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There's something about the quietness, even though I'll have instrumental worship in

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the background.

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I'll put that on and then I'll just wait on God.

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But I listen for the response because I come expecting, knowing that God's going to speak

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to me.

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Sometimes I hear things.

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want to develop your spiritual senses, it's developing that connection and waiting on

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God.

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of waiting for that still small voice of God.

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So that leads me to another great question for you.

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congested?

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I'm a big declarations person.

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I actually have a book that I bought, a woman, Barbara Billet is her name.

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And she has all these scriptures that what the Lord speaks about a specific area and then

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you pray the scriptures.

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And it's just really simple, but it's so powerful because I'm praying the word.

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So if I am worried about something, I'll literally go to the topic of worry and I read what God

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says about worry and I declare who God is above what I'm worrying about.

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And whenever I'm done declaring and praying the word and just to give some explanation

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to our tribe of declarations, declarations is for me declaring what God's word says

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so that my heart and my spirit, my emotions and my mind come into alignment with God's

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rooted on the sand.

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I want to be rooted on the rock.

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So for me, when I feel dull, when I feel spiritually congested, I have to get realigned and repositioned

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in who I am in him.

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For me, what I often do is that I pray in a spirit.

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Yeah, that's it.

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Paul says that if you pray in a spirit, or you pray in a spirit, prays in tongues, they

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edify themselves.

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Yeah, come on.

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And the word literally is almost a picture of like you would take jumper cables out on

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a dead car battery.

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So sometimes when I feel dull, praying in a spirit jump starts my spirit.

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And that's so good.

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You're around me.

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I'll pray while I'm driving.

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I'll pray in a spirit.

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You pray in a spirit all the time.

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And that always seems to break open an atmosphere for me and causes me to feel more attuned.

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experienced the baptism in the Holy Spirit, but Paul says, I thank God that I speak in

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tongues more than you all.

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And I think no one that knows anything about the Bible or Christianity would say that Paul

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wasn't sensitive to God.

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And he's letting you know a secret that the way to sharpen your spiritual sense, according

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to Paul, was to pray with your understanding, but to pray in a spirit.

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And so that becomes something that I like to do.

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I love that.

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And I think for maybe some of our listeners today, they're like, I'm feeling really dull.

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And, you know, I really want to speak to that because I feel like that is very real.

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But the reality is, I just want to speak to some areas of things that can cause hindrances

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to our spiritual sensitivity.

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Because if we're talking about sharpening our spiritual senses, we also have to talk

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about the flip side, what hinders your spiritual sensitivity.

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You know, what I've noticed, and I'm going to call it getting on the party line, you

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have to really be wise about who you associate with.

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And Proverbs 14,7, so says this so well, it says, leave the presence of a fool or you

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will not discern the words of knowledge, which means if you're around foolish people and

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foolish conversation, foolish advice, you'll heed to that and not even recognize wisdom

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or truth when it's released.

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Come on, keep it 100 tribe, who you allow to speak into those places have to be people

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of faith, have to be people that are going to call you deeper to your walk with God and

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whom you're associating with, who has access to your life, who are you allowing to speak

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into your identity is so key for sharpening your spiritual senses.

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I know that if I want to connect with God at a deeper level, I'm going to listen to

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voices that help develop my walk with Jesus.

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And so if they're not pointing me toward the things of the Lord, then I'm going to really

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reevaluate their access into my life.

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I love your phrase, getting on the party line is a hindrance.

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Because I sense today that it's so easy for people to get in their political party lines.

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Say that.

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And all of a sudden you're hearing through the skew of the donkey or you're hearing

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through the skew of the elephant instead of hearing through the skew of the lion of the

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tribe of Judah.

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And so I feel like getting off the party line is so important.

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I love that point.

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That's so good.

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I think another hindrance to spiritual sensitivity is unbelief and double-mindedness.

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That's good.

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One of the things that I came to as I was developing my ability to hear from God is to be totally

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honest and maybe there's some listeners out there that share this.

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I got stuff, but I didn't feel like I could trust it.

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He says, you have this anointing in you.

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You can trust that anointing.

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So Lord had to deal with me about getting out of unbelief because I feel like if you're

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an unbelief, first of all, you're not connected because the Bible says we prophesy according

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to our faith.

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And that's going to require faith to establish that connection.

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Faith is the breaker on the wall that flips the power.

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You know, like some people you have light switches on your wall flips on the light.

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Others you have a switch on the wall that's your power.

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power to whatever electronic appliance you're trying to.

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I feel like faith is that switch that you flip that on.

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Now it empowers your ability to receive.

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But maybe something I think is something I've seen more in this generation and I'm not just

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talking about 30 and under is double mindedness.

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We'll believe we are sensitive and then we think we're dull.

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We believe, man, I can hear from God and I don't know if I can hear from God.

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And we just go back and forth and the Bible is clear, not a double minded man believe

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they'll receive anything from God.

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So I think one of the other hindrances to spiritual sensitivity is unbelief and double

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mindedness, you have to believe that God wants to interact with you dating.

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And I think, you know, when I was younger, I think I really struggled with that.

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and it came from a place where I had a loud fear, a spirit of fear to influence my thoughts

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and my belief system.

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And I had a deep walk with God I'd like to believe and I loved Jesus, but I had old

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mindsets and fixed mindsets that created a double mindedness, but they were really false

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belief systems, fixed mindsets.

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And that was based on a spirit of fear rather than the spirit of God.

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And I think there's times where we have learned behaviors of stuff that's been told to us.

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There's people in our lives that have strong opinions or they've said the same thing to

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us for decades.

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It's just something that are maybe your family believes it's part of the culture of your

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family, the culture of your society.

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It's called cut the tall poppy.

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Anyone stands out if anyone goes above the status quo, if culture in Australia is they

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want everyone kind of the same and they want to cut down the tall poppy because all the

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poppies need to be the same.

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All the poppies have to be kind of averaged together for all averaged together, then we're

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all like each other and there's that community in averageness, you know, and I feel like

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we can do that in our Christian walk.

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If someone is radical in their faith, if someone's believing for the supernatural, if someone's

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believing in against all odds, you know, God's going to heal me, God's going to give me this,

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there's a breakthrough and you look with natural eyes, you're like, that's crazy.

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But if you speak that and you release that over that person, it can actually release

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a deflation of their faith and what God's actually called a position into and vice versa.

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When we have people speak it over us and we agree with it, we believe it.

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We have a wrong mindset that isn't aligned with the spirit of God.

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So our minds have to be renewed to be based on what the word says and who God is in us

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and through us.

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Scripture backs that up.

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Scripture talks about in Matthew 13, 13 and 17.

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Jesus says, I speak in parables as if to imply that the Pharisees and the other teachers

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of the law, he says, the hearts of these people have grown dull, they're hard of hearing,

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they've shut their eyes, they would not see and understand what their hearts.

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And so what he's saying is that they were so strong in their opinion that when presented

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with revelation, they refused to submit to the revelation, they stuck to their opinion.

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And obviously he would say of them that your traditions is nullifying the Word of God.

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We think of it now as the Word of God, as the written Word of God, but at that time,

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you know, there wasn't a Bible.

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So what he was saying was you've allowed your tradition, your fixed mindset to nullify

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my revelation.

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So what you're saying is so true.

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I love that.

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Hindrance is also include an undeveloped tuner.

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In some ways, we've not developed our ability to hear because we've not fed it enough of

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the Word of God.

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I believe one of the ways that you develop your tuner is that you feed on the Word of

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God because the Word of God washes your heart.

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And as it washes your heart, it clears your heart.

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It clears the way to receive it.

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So undeveloped tuner sometimes comes because people have never moved from the milk to the

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meat.

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Maybe they do have some scriptures and they can quote John 3.16.

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Maybe they could quote Jesus Webb, maybe quote a couple of other scriptures, but they've

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never moved from milk to meat.

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And I think it's something about the difference between milk and meat.

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Milk is post-digested meat.

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I'll give you an example.

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When a mother is breastfeeding her baby, mom will eat the steak, but the meat goes through

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mom, mom breaks it down, and her body releases milk to the baby.

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So sometimes when you say you have to go from milk to meat, it's saying the Word of God

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doesn't always have to pass through someone else to get to you.

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That it's awesome that we've got great preachers and we've got great people that we love to

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listen to, but we've got to get along with God and get our own meat, our own revelation.

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It shouldn't always have to pass through someone else.

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You know, I just want to end with this last thing because I know we're going to move on,

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but I think it's important and that is unfocused living.

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We're talking about things that hinder your spiritual senses and your ability to track

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with Holy Spirit.

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And that is distractions because as soon as you focus your heart on the spirit, your

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senses then begin to receive that which you're in contact with spiritually.

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And I believe that there is such a battle for our focus right now.

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It has been a very distracting season because we have had so much on our plate and there's

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so much new things.

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We as a ministry have had to fully pivot, do so much stuff online.

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We're used to traveling, all this different kind of stuff.

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And so the energy, they call it adaptive energy.

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And that's where there's so much change and there's so much new stuff.

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It takes a lot of adaptive energy.

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I have found myself distracted, but also tired.

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And being tired is a real factor in your distraction, right?

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Because it's hard to focus when you're weary.

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And maybe weary is too strong of a word.

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Let's use the word tired.

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But in a season where I've had so much adaptive energy, I found myself distracted and a bit

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unfocused.

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So when I'm distracted, I'm allowing my to-do list to sometimes offset my quiet time.

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And as soon as my quiet time is a bit offset, I'm like, ooh, I can feel it.

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I can feel like a misalignment within myself.

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I can feel myself not as anchored in peace because I'm unfocused.

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And then when I spend time in the presence of God and we worship and we wait, we pray

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and we spend time with God, all of a sudden that focus and the distractions go away.

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And all of a sudden everything begins to shift and my spiritual sense is then click into a

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place of awareness.

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And I feel like that is so key because we want people to click into a place of awareness

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and click into a spiritual sensitivity that they were created to walk in, but eliminating

463
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the distractions, recognizing, hey, I have to spend time with God.

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It's not an option.

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It's actually a necessity.

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Your last point, I believe, is the whole heart of this entire episode is that you have to

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be intentional about connecting with Holy Spirit.

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And there really takes that old thing that if you stand still on the downward escalator,

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you're not going to stay where you're at.

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You're going to end up at the bottom of that incline.

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And I feel like because of our culture, there's a bit of a downward elevator.

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You have to be intentional.

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And so that requires that you are focused.

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You know, I'm a word guy.

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You know that.

476
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I love different words.

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And one word that we're hearing a lot about now is hack.

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Not so much hack as in hackers that hack computers, but we're hearing phrases like life hacks.

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And what I mean by that, because I think we should define the term a life hack, is a strategy

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or technique in order to facilitate an activity in a more efficient way.

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So in other words, when you give someone a life hack, what you're giving them is an

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inside trade secret to become more accomplished at what you're sharing.

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So we want to conclude our episode by giving you five prophetic tuning life hacks.

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So they come actually from five Hebrew words.

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And the first word, and these are five Hebrew words for discernment.

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The first word is Nekar.

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And Nekar means to inspect or look something over with the intention of recognizing it,

488
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discerning it, or distinguishing it.

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And I think of Nekar, again, you're looking at something that the way to have discernment

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is that you have to begin to focus on it.

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You have to begin to look at it.

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And as you do it, you're discerning it.

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So I feel like when I think of Nekar, I think of I'm observing something, but I'm having

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an inward dialogue with Holy Spirit.

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So I'm not just looking at a person and thinking, all those are cool shoes.

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Man, I don't know about that shirt though, you know, but you're looking at them and

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go, yeah, you got cool shoes and whatever about the shirt.

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But Holy Spirit, help me to see what you're seeing.

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That's so good.

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And the Latin meaning of the word intuition is interest.

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It means to look at or have perception.

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So this is exactly what I believe Nekar is about.

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It's looking at something and expecting to receive divine perception.

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Paul, it says in Acts chapter 14, it says, perceiving that a man had faith.

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He said to a guy, could walk, stand up and walk.

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And I always thought, how did he see faith on him?

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He stared at the guy and something began to jump out.

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Before he knew it, Holy Spirit was communicating him.

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He has faith.

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This is your next miracle.

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Step into it.

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The second prophetic tuning hack, because we want you guys to walk away with some really

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practical tools, is the Hebrew word shama, S-H-A-M-A.

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And it means to listen with the idea of obeying what you hear, because you have to obey what

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the Lord releases over you.

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And what I love is this is about being a good steward of what you hear, because the Lord

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is going to release things over your life.

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If you don't follow through with what God's speaking to you, there's often a diminishing

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that happens in your ability to hear God.

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Because if you're not walking in obedience, if you're not walking out what the Lord's

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speaking to you, there is often a diminishing in your ability to hear him and him speaking

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to you.

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Now here's what's interesting.

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I remember when I was younger, I would hit roadblocks.

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And I remember one of my spiritual mentors asked me, what's the last thing the Lord asked

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you to do?

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And I thought about it and they said, did you do it?

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And I hadn't done it.

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And they said, well, that's often a way that your flow of Holy Spirit, your ability to

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hear him is clogged, because you have not even stewarded what he's asked you to do in

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the first place.

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So if you're listening today, keep it 100 tribe.

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What's the last thing God spoke to you and did you do it?

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Because I believe Shama is to listen with the idea and the intention to obey what God is

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speaking to us.

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John 717 says, if any man will do as well, he shall know of the teaching, whether it

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be of God.

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We have to know and walk in a place of discernment, listening, going, is that God?

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And when it is God, we move on it quickly.

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A third tuning hack is the word RAI.

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It means watching something and learning from it.

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And one of the ways I've developed discernment is watching the Holy Spirit move.

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I used to pull out, this is back in the day, I'm somewhat dating myself.

544
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I'd pull out DVDs or even I go further back VHSs.

545
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And I would see people that moved in the prophetic or people that moved in miracles and I would

546
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watch, rewatch, rewatch, rewatch the services.

547
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But it wasn't so much, I was watching maybe the human instrumentality, but I was watching

548
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,720
the anointing on these people.

549
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And as I was watching them flow in the anointing, I was growing in discernment and kind of like,

550
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okay, Holy Spirit, what would you have me do right now?

551
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,000
And then watch them do the same thing.

552
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:24,040
So I've developed discernment by watching others minister in the prophetic.

553
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:27,520
I get materials, I read books on the prophetic.

554
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,400
I get around it.

555
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,940
Sometimes certain things are more caught than taught.

556
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And I remember I would drive sometimes two or three hours to be in a service as someone

557
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,700
that was sensitive to God and flowed.

558
00:31:40,700 --> 00:31:45,920
But it was worth it because it's rei, it means watching something and learning from it that

559
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:51,920
you're growing in your discernment by watching the anointing and cataloging what was that

560
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:57,200
like, what did you sense, what's going on, and then walking away with that becoming a

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part of your expression of Holy Spirit.

562
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:03,120
The next one is tabuna, T-E-B-U-N-A.

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And it means the process where one gains knowledge through experience and through it gains discernment.

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I'm going to focus on one word there in its process.

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Friends, it is a process to develop the discernment.

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It is a process to develop your spiritual senses.

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I know this is true in many people's lives and it's certainly true in mine.

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I had spiritual mentors take risks on me in the area of prophetic specifically where we're

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in services and they would call me up and they'd be like, what's God saying to you?

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And I'd be like, I don't really know what God's saying to me.

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And then they would hand me a mic and all of a sudden, boom, I'd get a drop.

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And then I would just release it and I'd just watch God use it and minister to people and

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through that, I learned how to discern His voice.

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I learned how to move in the prophetic.

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And then I also begin to trust the Holy Spirit.

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Like you said, you have to trust the anointing in you have to, and that happens friends through

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00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:57,440
a process and it happens through experience, the greater the experience, the greater the

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knowledge.

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I believe that when it's more, we have experiences.

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It gives us a depth and a breath of a knowledge of how to flow and collaborate with Holy Spirit

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because I believe we activate our spirit through practice.

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And Hebrews 514 talks about having our senses trained.

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The final one is Yadah, which is one of my favorite words, Christa.

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It speaks of the deepest intimacy that a person could have with another.

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So the fifth and final prophetic hack is getting alone with God because the secret place becomes

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the learning place for the marketplace.

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That's good.

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Your spiritual senses grow as you get saturated in His presence.

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If I put myself before the Lord, I'm putting myself in a place of encounter.

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And the more I encounter Holy Spirit, because at the end of the day, I'm not trying to walk

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00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:46,960
away with a new skill set.

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00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:48,880
I want to walk away with greater intimacy.

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Come on.

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And if I have greater intimacy with God, I'm going to feel what He feels.

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And I think one of the things to do is just pray until you feel that embrace.

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00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,880
I remember one time I was going through a tough time when I first gave my life to the

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00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:05,800
Lord and I said, God, you do everything, but God, you just can't give hugs.

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I just need a hug right now.

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00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,520
Man, I was like emo before emo, I guess.

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And in that moment, I felt the warm embrace of God come down from heaven.

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And I just remember crying, go, God, you do give hugs.

602
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:17,840
You do give hugs.

603
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,040
And so Yadah is so important.

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00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:24,520
You guys, if you don't get anything else, this thing is about intimacy.

605
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,560
It's not just about walking away with a different skill set.

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00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:31,160
This thing is about knowing Him, knowing His heart, becoming His heart.

607
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:36,360
And if you do, you will sharpen your spiritual senses and walk in a way where I believe that

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00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:41,000
the miraculous will become your day-to-day life and it will become your norm.

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Keep it one-headed tribe.

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We want you to know you're called to walk in a place of spiritually being aware of what

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00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:48,880
Holy Spirit is speaking to you.

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00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:50,720
You're not listening to this podcast by accident.

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00:34:50,720 --> 00:34:54,560
You're listening to this podcast because God's tapping you on the shoulder saying, come on,

614
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:55,560
son, daughter.

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00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:59,960
I want to use you to hear my voice and to bring an encounter to a world that is lost,

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00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:01,280
hurting, and broken.

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00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:06,480
We are in a place where so many people are longing to be known by God and to encounter

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God friends.

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You are that encounter, but first Jesus wants to encounter you.

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00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:15,560
And as you take time to wait on Him, to listen, to acknowledge His Spirit in His presence,

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00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,360
your spiritual awareness is going to increase.

622
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,480
Friends, this is available for all of you.

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00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,840
All of you have access to the same Holy Spirit.

624
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,160
There is no junior Holy Spirit.

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00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,960
You are called to walk in a deep, intimate relationship with God.

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00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,320
We want to part that into you.

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We want you to know we're praying for you this week.

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And if you have a testimony, send it to us on Facebook.

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Email our ministry.

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00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:41,280
We want to hear how God is awakening your spiritual senses.

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And with that, friends, thanks for joining us this week.

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But we want you to know, keep connecting with us even throughout the week.

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00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:51,800
And of course, join us every Tuesday for a brand new podcast episode that drops on any

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podcast platform.

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00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:59,440
But also during that time, continue to subscribe, rate, and review the Keep It 100 podcast.

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And that's what we want.

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We want more people to get discipled in their walk with Jesus.

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Of course, at any time, visit us at www.Seanacrisesmith.com.

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We'd love to hear from you.

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You do not want to miss next episode.

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Next week, we're going to talk about clap back, casting shade, and getting flack.

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How to develop a thick skin while maintaining a tender heart, which is so important in

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the day that we live in.

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We love you guys.

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Can't wait till next time.

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