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Prayer and Prophetic Conference, Day 3
Today was the final day of the conference, and it was a full one. Jon Thurlow started the morning session with worship and Julie Meyer spoke.
Julie Meyer recounted some powerful, prophetic dreams and encouraged the listeners to invest in a deep, interior life. Because the prophetic is an overflow of what is done when no one is watching, she is convinced that God wants our private lives to shine brighter in righteousness than anything we do in a public setting. God is calling us to greatness on the inside, but we cannot shine like the stars with a grumbling and complaining spirit. Julie asked three questions to bring the interior life into focus: 1) What comes out of your mouth when no one is around? 2) What choices do you make when nobody is looking? 3) How do you respond when you are overlooked, ignored, and demoted?
The afternoon worship session was led by Matt Gilman, and Wes Hall laid out a clear teaching on the practical boundaries of prophecy. Wes referenced the early New Testament practices of prophecy, their mistakes, how correction was made, and how to grow in practical experience now. He discussed the goals of prophecy, along with its limits, and the form most prophecies take. He encouraged everyone with the words of the apostle Paul, “Earnestly desire to prophesy.”
Matt Gilman again led the evening worship session and Lou Engle closed out the conference by taking a wide-angle view of where America is. Lou focused on the necessity of revival, not just for unbelievers, but for the Church first. Prophetic ministries take responsibility to intercede for their nation, he said, and to confront the apostate church within that nation. The primary way this happens is through knowing and proclaiming the Word of God. Lou called for adults to live in a way that would produce a generation of children who would be reformers like Martin Luther—those with purity and a prophetic spirit who will stand against false ideologies and apathy.
God wants to take us to another place in abandonment in fasting and prayer. Standing in the gap means you are putting your life on the line, but someone has to contend with the strong man. Lou closed the teaching by saying we are the ones, as believers, who can pray and actually release and restrain things through our partnership with God. Lou’s final invitation was to get back to the Bible as our source for spirituality, truth, and hope for future generations.
MP3's from this evening's message are available here.
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