(This is an edited transcription of a prophetic word released via live video broadcast on 13th June 2019)
This is an hour where Holy Spirit is saying “You have permission. You have permission to arise and to shine in this hour.” The Lord is saying “It is the hour of Isaiah 60 being fulfilled” where they are arising and shining - the crazy, the wacky, the ones with all the different expressions and the different blueprints that God has placed inside of you; this is the hour.
God is saying “Arise and shine, arise and shine.” Stop trying to get permission from men when God has giving you permission; because we are constantly comparing. We are constantly looking; we are constantly trying to measure what we carry according to culture and to the church culture and to what is acceptable.
The Lord is saying “I don’t want you to look at those things. Will you constantly feast on the throne room in My presence and My Glory and you will live by a different standard? You will legislate from a different place. You will release from a different place.”
VOICES OF HARVEST
Right now God is calling you; whether you are in a church or not in a church. This is what it says, The Holy Spirit, He searches through the earth.” He’s searching through the earth; He’s looking for those who will say yes. He’s looking and He’s searching, and His eyes are on you.
This is the Joel 2 season of the Spirit of God being poured out on the earth. I tell you what; the fruit of that is going to look messy and crazy at first. The fruit of that is not going to look like you can manage it; like you can have an admin team and a team of people trying to manage it in your church organization. It will not be enough to catch the outpouring and the harvest that is coming but God is starting with you right now.
He’s calling you out of that place and I want to speak to those who are emerging from the wilderness. What am I talking about? I’m talking about a specific people. I’m talking about a people who have maybe been living on the fringe in this past season. I’m talking about people that carry the Spirit of God; who love Jesus; who know that they have been created and designed to love God and there has been a season that you have been in an isolation and wilderness and a place of preparation and you have been trying to navigate it knowing that this is your season of emerging; this is your season that God is leading you out into something new.
LOOK TO THE WILDERNESS
God has been telling me for years now to look to the wilderness for the weighty voices from the Lord. And that’s not to devalue those who God has birthed and trained in the church; that’s not what I’m saying. I’m talking about those who have been through the fire and the wilderness; those who have been through a season that has been so intense that you thought you were going to die; a season of assassination, a season of such opposition, a season where everything came against you yet you’re still standing; God says, “They are the ones who carry my weighty glory” They are the ones who carry a word from the Lord for this hour.
I think we do often keep looking at the wrong places for the weighty voice of the Lord. I think we’re constantly looking for those who are refined. We’re constantly looking for these voices that have it all together, but God is looking for the ones that are rough around the edges that will simply be a container for His Glory to pour in and leak out in the earth.
We are going to see a different blueprint. We’re going to see a different kind of voice arise in this season. We’re going to see something arise that we have not seen that will be a solution to what the earth is crying out for. We’re going to see prophets and people sent into places, situations, social situations that are very messy, that the church doesn’t want to deal with. Areas that unless you have been to the lowest depths you won’t recognise or see.
THE PREPARATION SEASON IS THE SETUP
You have been in this season where God has been birthing what is inside of you and maybe you don’t understand your isolation; maybe you don’t understand why there has even been levels of rejection; maybe you don’t even know why people have been devaluing your voice. There’s been all these different elements that have been painful. God has been preparing you as a voice emerging from the wilderness to speak; to prepare the way of the Lord and to speak forth what is from his heart.
God has been preparing you where everything around you feels like it’s been cut off around you; every single relationship and tie and you’re like “God what is going on?” He’s preparing you; He’s preparing you.
There are seasons you go through and you don’t understand why you go through them. We don’t understand why they’re so painful we don’t understand why God would lead you into a situation that looks like It’s recession; it looks like it is subtraction in your life but it’s not. It’s the addition.
BIRTHED IN THE WILDERNESS TO LEAD PEOPLE OUT
God often develops and births people you in the wilderness. You think of John the Baptizer. His ministry was “a voice crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord.” He wasn’t in the synagogues, he was a voice crying in the wilderness. Jesus said of John. He said “John is the greatest of the prophets, but even you are greater than he;” because John was the ending of an era and John, as he baptized Jesus, there was a tag in the spirit as one ministry ended and another began and what happened that moment that Jesus had Holy Spirit come down upon him and say, “This is my son whom I love and I am well pleased” and Jesus then went into His wilderness.
He went into His wilderness. His ministry didn’t begin until that moment. His ministry didn’t begin until right here. He was in the wilderness going through all these thoughts and bombardment of the enemy and temptations to turn the stones into bread; and I believe we go through these wilderness seasons because God is wanting the pure voices to arise and to emerge.
Don’t let comfort and safety become the place that you die because you’re not willing to be in a place that it’s just you and the Lord; that surrender, that deep place of surrender where you feel like you’re giving up everything for Him to come and live inside of you; for Him to come and take up residence in you where you say; “it’s no longer I that live but Christ who lives in me;”
That's what the wilderness does. This is what Isaiah 43:5 prophesies to John;
“A voice cries out in the desert, clear a way for the Lord, make a straight highway in the wilderness for our God. Every valley will be raised, and every mountain and hill will be low. Deep places will be made level, rough places will be made smooth. Then the Lord’s Glory will be revealed, and all the people will see it. The Lord has spoken;”
That’s the ministry of the prophetic voices; those who are coming and emerging from the wilderness and they will emerge out of that place that they thought they would die in. They would emerge out of that place bursting with more life and more transformation, more Holy Spirit power and breakthrough than they ever thought possible. The very fragrance of their season of death will actually be the ignition of a ministry of reconciliation and resurrection life to lead others lost and in bondage OUT!
FROM ISOLATION TO FAMILY
And while God often uses the wilderness and isolation to birth prophets, ln the longterm prophets need family. There are emerging voices right now without a family and God is calling you home. God doesn’t lead you into the wilderness so that you can rebel, He uses it to activate and ignite you then He leads you back so that you can then return with an answer and with a solution and you can actually be part of a family.
It’s just so important because in this season we’re going to see the family of God unite like more than ever before. This is not a season of more disjointing and more denominationalisms. It’s to be a season of the unity of the body of Christ; because the body of Christ, more than anything else, is us getting in our own little groups “I’m a prophetic voice, I’m this and I need to separate from this person because they don’t operate like me.” No, we need to work together and it’s time that the emerging voices come out of the wilderness and so that the body of Christ can come together in obedience and family.
There are a lot of people on social media who need a place to call home. There are a lot of people on social media who maybe don’t go to church and you’ve been out on the fringe and you’ve been in a very unhealthy place where maybe you don’t even realize what you carry and so I’m speaking to you more than anybody else. I’m speaking to you right now. Yes, I’ve been there but that’s not the end of the story. I’m speaking to those who have been in the wilderness past its expiry. I’m speaking to those who have been living on the fringes. I’m speaking to the sons and daughters that have felt like they have no place in the kingdom or in the church and today God is calling you back. He’s calling you into the family of God. He’s calling you to belong, He’s calling you to be a voice, He’s calling you to resound his glory into the earth.
LOOK WHAT THE WILDERNESS DID!
I want to ask; what has the wilderness done in you? I’m going to tell you what it’s done. The wilderness cultivates intimacy. It’s just you and Him alone. There’s nothing else, it feels like death because you’re like “I’m used to calling someone up and venting but I’ve got no one” and you go through this season and you’re like I don’t know who to call and the only one on the end of the line is Jesus; the only one on the end of the line is the Father. It’s where you get to know the Father really well and you’re not depending on a spiritual father. Earthly fathers are good but a terrible and disappointing replacement for the Father. The father is saying, “The wilderness is a place where you met Me. The wilderness is a place where you begin to hear my voice like a sheep knows my voice and then you know what I sound like and then you know what to speak and then you know what to say because you’re beginning to speak forth what I’ve already spoken into your spirit and release that into the earth.”
The wilderness Is where you fight your hardest battles. This is where the warfare is the most intense; it’s where you go through the mind wars and the things that come against you like Jesus did. He came against those mind battles and those wars, but it is the place that you have victory. It is the place that you defeat the bears and the lions like David and you emerge victorious. When you meet your Goliath, it’s not even a match for you because God has already been pouring out that authority. He has already showed you who you are.
YOUR PROMOTION COMES FROM THE LORD
The wilderness season is really powerful because it is the place where you know that your promotion comes from the Lord and not by man’s hands. What happened to David? All David’s brothers, when Prophet Samuel came along and said that the next king of Israel comes from your family, your lineage and He said, “it’s none of these, is there anyone else” and they had to call forth David from the wilderness, from tending to the sheep,” what happened? It wasn’t man that promoted David, it was God and when you’ve been faithful even in that season, the promotion comes from the Lord. You don’t need to chase down doors and I believe a marker of this season and for this generation is that we’re not going to seek fame or influence. We’re not going to seek fortune we’re not going to seek networking connections and all those sorts of things.
Young ministers, you’re not going to seek out event invites in churches who are going to get you to come along. You’ll just allow God to bring those things to you. Let the promotion come from the Lord.
The marker of these people is that they do not need to look for promotion. They don’t need to be these incredible self-marketers because God does it for them. The very fruit of their life is what people are drawn to because they know that the Spirit of God is upon their life.
PURE VOICES: NOT BRANDED OR OWNED
No one can say they own you. They weren’t there in the middle of your dark night of the soul. They weren’t in that place, no they weren’t. They weren’t in that place when you needed someone to call on. No, it was only Jesus. They can’t own you, they can’t put their brand on you. They can’t put their mark on you; they can’t claim you, “this is my spiritual son, this is my spiritual daughter.” No, I’m not against that stuff but I’m telling you there’s some really bad messy stuff that comes with that that is just not good and it has caused a lot of people to be squashed and controlled instead of freed and released and I’m going to tell you something, prophetic voices do need accountability and they do need people that they can draw from and people that can speak into their lives but I tell you what’s going to shut down a prophetic voice; it’s going to be someone that tries to own you, put their brand on you saying I have made you; that straightaway will weaken the prophetic voice and unction. It will mucky and muddy the very thing that is supposed to come out forth pure.
THE PURIFICATION & THE NEW WINE
So, what else has the Lord has been doing? He has been healing and freeing you. You don’t even realize; the wilderness has been doing way more for you than you realize. It’s working for you. It’s working in your favor. It’s been doing some deep deconstruction and construction a new thing. He has been re-directing you. There’s a new wine skin; maybe the thing you walked into the wilderness with, God is taking that from you and He’s giving a whole new wine skin and then He’s been filling you up with the new wine of His presence and you come out of the wilderness gushing forth with that new wine and people go, “I’ve not heard that before. Why does that just sound like life to me? Why is that just like refreshing water to my soul?” That’s why because it’s the new wine. It’s fresh. It’s new, it’s not tainted.
HE HAS BEEN DEVELOPING YOUR UNIQUE SOUND
Wow, I love that next thing God is doing in honing your instrument or unique expression. I’ve been saying this a lot but there is about to become and it’s already happening, the emerging of such crazy, out there expressions of God’s kingdom that is going to absolutely just bless the world but it’s going to be different from what we expect. The package is going to be very different from what we expect. It’s almost like we have seen that well this is what the kingdom is, and this is what we can release and it’s this tiny, there’s this tiny area here. Prophet looks like this, an evangelist looks like this, but I’m telling you right now, the emerging voices that are coming from the wilderness in this season; they have such a new vocabulary that they carry. There is such a new way and method that they operate in and unless you tapped into the spirit, you will write off who they are and what they carry. God is wanting to hone that expression that is inside of you He’s wanting you to own it. He’s wanting you to pick up the very thing that is in your hand that God has given you.
“Why would you use a sling, when you can use sword? here is the armor you need” But David said “I can’t do it with that, that’s old, that’s what I used to do it with before this season. I can’t do that anymore. I need my sling.” Now that looks stupid and we’re going to look at that sling and go, “you know, that’s stupid. Why would that person do that” but it is the new sound that God is bringing, that He’s carrying throughout the earth and as that sling, it is a new sound that is released and if you listen to the spirit you’ll tap into that place and you’ll value it.
STORIES FROM THE WILDERNESS ARE ABOUT TO BE WRITTEN
God told me to prophesy “Stories from the wilderness are about to be written in this season. You’re going to come out with a song” and the Lord says “there are going to be even stories and there are going to be books that are going to be written. There are stories that are going to be written from the wilderness.” If you felt that in your spirit just then, this might not be for everybody, but this is just for a few people. If you felt like “my story needs to be written and it’s going to empower a lot of people,” I want to pray for you right now. I feel like the Lord is saying your story is about to be written and the Lord said, “There are storytellers that are rising up in this season. There are storytellers rising”
So release that story, release that story, release that story. I just felt someone was saying “but it’s too dark, it’s too painful God, it’s too deep. I don’t want to relive that.”
The lord says “You’re not going to relive it. You’re going to see My victory. You’re going to see My power and My redemption and My Glory.”
If you’ve been through that season, if you’ve been through the wilderness, if you’ve been through the deep dark valley of the shadow of death but you came out on the other side and maybe you still don’t feel whole, but God speaks over you; “You are whole, and your voice needs to be heard in this season.”
I just break off every single lie, every single condemnation of the enemy, every voice that has tried to stunt you oppress you, hold you, control you, limit you, edit you, be broken in the name of Jesus! On behalf of leaders and people that never saw what was in you, I’m sorry. On behalf of parents, family members and friends that tried to tell you “shut up, you’re crazy.” I’m sorry; just release forgiveness to them even right now because you’re going to emerge. You’re going to emerge.
It’s a new day, you’re going to brush it off. You can’t let your story stay in that place where you were hurt. Prophets, you can’t stay there, you can’t be broken orphaned prophets anymore. Okay it was your story and let it be the part of your story that sets people free, not lead people into the wilderness, into brokenness. Let it be the part of your story that makes people realize “wow, that’s where I’m at but I’m going to get free because they did it.” Let it, let it go.
God, I thank you. I thank you for the stories that will be written for those who are feeling the anointing that is been released even right now to write their stories, to write what you’ve given them God, that in this season you’re telling people, “pick up your pens, begin to release what I give you, the revelation I give you, it’s time;” but you’re like, “but who will listen to me?” God says, “This is the hour. I want you to piece it together; I want you to begin to learn what it is again to steward my voice. I want you to speak.
WHAT IS IN YOUR HANDS RIGHT NOW?
Maybe you’re on here and you’re a prophetic voice and maybe you read the words I write or other prophetic voices and you’re like, “I hear the same thing;” good! The same Holy Spirit is speaking to you; but now it’s time for you to release it. I’m not telling you to go create an online ministry; am just telling you to begin to steward the word of the Lord. Begin to steward what He’s saying to you. Go and encourage a neighbor. Go and release the word of God over people.
Thank you Jesus that we are emerging out of that place God, that the preparation season that many have been through is over and God you’re leading them into a place of being able to be solutionists and architects of the word that you want to see. We say thank you, we say thank you, we say thank you.
EMERGING VOICES COLLECTIVE
In a few months we are launching the Emerging Voices Collective. This is a movement I’ve dreamed about for 5 years but waited for the GO from God. Emerging Voices Collective is all about raising up and championing prophetic voices around the world by creating family and resources for them discover the voice God has given them. If this word has spoken to you and this interests you go on our Instagram page @emergingvoicesco and follow us for encouragement and more updates to come.
