Our Guest Shawn Bolz
SHAWN: Sometimes I have to treasure people and I think that’s why God gives a lot of word association words of knowledge where I’ll see somebody and they remind me of my sister Jennifer and I’m treasuring them like I treasure Jennifer for a moment. Then I’m asking them is your name Jennifer and it is! Or is your wife’s name Jennifer and it is. But I’ve already come to a place of love where I borrowed from the bank of love that I already had towards them. And it just is so beautiful when you can be connected to a person and prophecy grounds us in the moment. You know God is so beautiful. Especially words of knowledge grounds us in the moment! He’s so beautiful because He’s omnipresent but He chooses to come into our time and space and manifest in a moment of connectivity with us. The most beautiful resource we have to give is time! The most beautiful resource heaven has to give is time! So when God comes and brings us into a connected moment, it can happen through worship, it can happen through teaching, it can happen through fellowship but when it happens through prophecy we realize especially through a word of knowledge like when you give a word of knowledge like a birthday to somebody or something of private information to somebody and you ask them is this God” And they all of a sudden feel like the God of all the universe stopped and took a moment out of His time to make me feel special and loved and known. And they are thinking, I’m telling you so many people, especially outside people or in the religious community of the church, and I’m talking about the negative religion, I love the Church but there’s a lot of negative religion where we’ve even we need to deprogram ourselves from religion and program ourselves on love. And I’ve had so many people who are like “but I’ve done all this bad.” I’ve done so much bad how could God want to minister to me right now” And that’s how we’ve been, the state of our heart has been like God is against me. He’s not for me. And prophecy proves that God loves us even though we have all this stuff in our lives. Despite what we’ve chosen, despite what we’ve done prophecy helps us to feel the God who loves us even though when we still have a chance. We still have a chance for full redemption, a life of fullness and He grounds us in those moments throughout our lives. And if you will choose to prophecy, if you will choose to look at the world around you and say I’m going to treasure these people as though they’re the very gift of God, that’s how Jesus saw them! As a matter of fact Jesus saw everybody around Him as if they were the joy set before Him that He was even willing to go to the cross and pay the ultimate price for it! One of the things I encourage people to do before they even try and get words of knowledge or prophecy is start to treasure the people they’re trying to get words of knowledge or prophecy for. Start to fall in love. Start to say God, I choose to love this person. I choose to be present with this person. I chose to be connected to this person whether we’re with prostitutes in red light districts or whether we’re with business people or people in our own church we’re constantly trying to separate ourselves from technology and what we need to eat later and what we need to do in our busy schedule and we’re trying to have a complete moment that’s for that person where we’re saying you are worthy. You are worth my time!
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