you know the one thing that i cherish is a pastor that can receive prophetic word
watch over it pray over it even for an individual in his congregation or if it's a word for his
county or his city or his country he takes time to pray over it and not just condemn it or say well
that came from such and such a person i don't like that person so i'm not going to accept the word
that's happened to me a number of times where a word has come to me from people that i didn't
really expect it to come from and god said that is me because god can use a donkey to speak
if he wants to so pastor mike prosciutto is with me today on this one important issue and that is
prophecy has it affected you mike i mean does prophecy guided you has prophecy ever been
a force to be reckoned with in terms of your destiny and where you are today jesus said
man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of god
and kim also speaks about prophetic preservation so for myself
you know when say when jesus was challenged in the wilderness he always spoke the word to satan
and when he when the devil challenges me personally my family
i have the word of the lord he challenges me about my children i have the word of the lord
so wow hope is so important our future we need to know what our future is all about and the
prophetic leads us right into that well did you ever get prophecies during your time that
led you that that maybe you got confused about and that didn't really happen the
way you thought i'll tell you one one of the prophecies probably is one of mine
is that god prophesied about how he's going to expand you and you're going to have a huge
congregation and then it fell to pieces really literally you didn't have the large congregation
and i didn't even know or think about that prophecy but what happened was
what happens many times we hear prophets we think it's going to happen now yeah now let's let's fast
forward 10 15 is whatever look at you now god's placed you as a pastor probably the pastor over
literally hundreds of thousands of people now whether they accept you as a pastor or not doesn't
doesn't matter because i know at least 10 or 20 000 of our viewers have accepted you as
one of their pastors at least right so would you say that that's a good example of you were given
a word and you were a little confused but now you suddenly see it in such a vast way someone said
once kim we get a word from god and we make it a paragraph so we always try to figure out we're
so curious we are we human beings and we try to figure out how some things what it's going
to look like and we just need to know god said it it's going to come to pass but it's it's probably
never the way we think it's going to be but it's it's always better never say how how i always tell
people get the how out of you because how is you don't ask god hell because he let him work it out
but it is important that we understand a little bit of the prophetic word so um you know a lot
of times prophetic words don't happen uh because of various for various reasons you know god's plan
was to get the children of israel in at a certain time and they were disobedient and you know they
they wandered around for 40 years and and and so we questioned we would question it you know
and say well god you said but then we didn't do accordingly and he had to lead us a different way
that changes the timing sometimes but yes here's one of the questions not the questions the things
i'd like to discuss with you quickly is what really irritates me terribly is when preachers
prophets teachers and people in general expect nothing but judgment
condemnation and the addressing of man's sin through the mouths of prophets or through prophecy
now what you would probably say to me if you were sitting here ogging or debating let's say that
you probably say ah but look at the old testament prophet they'd come in and israel would be sinning
and they'd condemn them and they judge them and they punish speak about this and yes you're right
we are no longer under old covenant law we are in a in a new covenant grace
dispensation now what does that mean this mean you
can sin no grace is higher than law he came to fulfill the law and the prophets
but this is what i want to say to you the prophets today have slightly a slightly different calling
in that they don't have to address sin because the holy spirit convicts now if you want to
say well the holy spirit he must stand one side because people don't listen to the holy spirit
it's your conscience he gets a hold of the holy spirit does a far better job of convicting or
convincing if you wish of sin then i'm ever going to do because i i may make you mad i may i've seen
it when i was younger in my ministry i would speak about people's sin and it didn't work they'd go
out and they'd be scared for two or three days and they'd start straight up i remember prophet
coming to our church when i was younger and everybody was so dead scared of this guy because
he everyone he called out he'd speak about their sin and oddly enough their sin was always sexual
and eventually i started looking at this guy and thinking you've got the problem that's why you're
picking on everybody is god not more than just picking you out about your sin because it doesn't
work never worked in the old testament won't work in the new testament there are times to address
national sins global sins it's it's important but you i will prove to you out of scripture
that the way that god uses prophecy today is to bring out the treasure that is inside of
you it's important that you understand that now have you ever i mean what is your take on that
do you think prophecy should address sin how do you feel about that being a pastor anyway well
clearly god's word says it's the goodness of god that leads a man to repentance
and of course you're teaching on when unbelievers are present and the church is prophesying
they become convicted you know and they come to god they come to christ the world doesn't need to
be beaten down they they need to be led what's the job of the holy spirit to lead all men unto christ
who wants to follow someone that's beating on you if you have a father that's abused you that's
perversion so our father doesn't abuse us he loves us he sent his son to die for us while we were yet
sinners you know that's a beautiful point and i want to say this about my son jacob because i take
him to school every day and jacob dwardles he's slow he doesn't like to he he's in his own time
and i had to teach him jacob it doesn't work like that in the world so every morning there's this
little fight that goes on where i say jacob you're running late it's it's look we've got five minutes
and one day it just wasn't working and one day he was a little early and and i felt the
spirit not nudged me and saying compliment him on what he did right so i said jacob you did so good
look at you you're three minutes before the late you know the the deadline and great job
and you know what the next day he was doing the same thing he wasn't going back to his tardiness
he was on time proud of it and i thought you know what if it worked with me it's gonna surely that's
how god works as well he said tell the goodness to in other words speak about the good points
hezekiah convinced god to give him 15 more years not based on screaming and crying and begging
for forgiveness but coming to god and praying and saying do not forget the good things that i have
done and that's how it is with our relationships as well if my son constantly came to me or my
daughter telling me the bad that they did every day i'd get tired of it i want to hear some of
the good things that my children have done and that's such a joy when they come back and they
they don't tell me the the c that they got for math but rather the a that they got for history
now the reality may be that they did get a c for math but i heard some good news first so that's
how it is i want you to understand the prophetic is not about talking or addressing your sin
because the holy spirit does that but addressing your future and your destiny