David Wagner 8/31/2014 2nd Service
I heard the Lord say as Heaven declares – Grace Center prepares – I believe there is an assignment on our lives to prepare the way of the Lord. Our job is to prepare the way, and then get out of the way so Jesus can be the way. We prepare the way, and we stay in the way, and we get in the way, and people can’t find the way or see the way. We end up drawing attention to ourselves and what we’re doing instead of what He’s doing.
I believe there is an assignment on Grace Center to prepare the way so Heaven can declare. You are a landing strip and a launching pad. You’re a place where people can land and belong. If you have a longing for belonging this is a good place to fit. I want you to know that there is room for you here.
I am not a featured speaker or dancer at the upcoming Heaven Declares conference, but I believe something of monumental proportions is going to happen. I feel like He’s moving us into something we’ve never seen before. Not just a church body, but individually corporately, and regionally into something we’ve never seen before.
I honestly believe that if revival was to come we probably wouldn’t recognize it, just like they didn’t recognize Jesus despite all the prophecies. We have this idea of what revival is, but let me tell you what it is not. Revival is NOT just an event (2x)– We prepare for the move of God – He moves on conferences and meetings when there’s something to work with, but there is also a sovereign move of God. I believe what we are about to step into something above and beyond what we could orchestrate – simply a God sovereign thing. I believe the Lord spoke to me that the conference in October is going to spark something. It’s going to spark the fire in Franklin. I heard throughout worship today, sounds of bells and sirens. I heard the Lord say there’s a three alarm fire coming to Franklin. I said wildfire? He said holy Fire – In a day and an age where most of us have been caught up or seen strange fire, God is coming to release a Holy fire. I also believe, there’s a movement within a movement. I think what God is doing that is making you uniquely you is simply this. If you look through the body of Christ we have all of these streams. People ask me all the time, what stream are you in? I am looking for the river the stream pours into. We kind of isolate and segregate – classify things – teaching, worship, prophetic, prayer and intercession, missions, etc … God is causing them all to flow together as one with greater force. I feel like there is an anointing coming on this ministry to unite – There are many sheep throughout this region that have been shattered and scattered. I feel like God is causing this to be a healing place for them. It won’t be the light and the sound that draw them, but the presence of God. My pastor in FL says, I can live without a lot of things, but I can’t live without the presence of God. I feel like God is cultivating a culture of hunger in this place. I have a prophetic question for you. You’ve experienced great moves of God, but are you hungry? If you’re not hungry you will replace it with counterfeits or replace hunger with something else. If I don’t stay hungry, I will get my eyes here and there. I believe God is about to take you into a season – from fasting to feasting – some of you positioned yourself in the fasting time, which really got you a seat at the table for the feast. You were willing to let it cost you something. Pressure will come, but his presence is always worth the pressure. There’s pressure coming in this world like we have never seen or known before. There are rumblings of things happening. I really believe that God is raising up in this season, a monumental move of the Spirit of God. Here’s what I saw this morning at 4 am. I saw a wall of glass - some were running to get in and others to get out. The Lord said what do you see? And I said I see a harvest. He said I’m raising up the multitudes of the harvest, but at the same time I’m raising up the multitudes to gather the harvest. How many know the harvest is already plentiful but the laborers are few. God has anointed you to be harvest reapers. He’s anointed you to reap this massive harvest in the earth like never before. I feel like the Lord is saying the season of delay is over!
I feel like the Lord is saying we get excited about the New Year and then we kind of cruise till summer. Then we take our breaks and there’s a glimmer of hope and activity in the early fall, and then we go baby Jesus. Instead of knowing that this is the season to accelerate, we begin to coast. Some of us have already thrown in the towel for this year, and are already looking to coast into 2015 for a do-over. LISTEN - Your greatest days of 2014 are ahead of you. I’m telling you that there is something supernaturally special coming in the months of September and October – there is something over the next 8 weeks or so, where God will release his fire – a wind of purpose is coming. I saw people on their tippy toes trying to see and also hear. The picture I got was after Elijah’s monumental victory; he was depressed and ran for the caves. God said where are you? What are you doing in there? That’s not where I called you. When God calls you to something He always says, Come out here, and come up here. God is causing you to step out to go up. Out and UP – it’s a simultaneous move - it’s important. Elijah said, I listened and looked for God in multiple places, but found him in the still small voice. I’m telling you right now this is a season as never before that we need to trust that still small voice like never before.
This year has been filled with both great triumphs and tragedies – Great ups and a few downs - Physically, relationally, financially …
Here’s what I found, in those moments of desperation, pain, weariness, tiredness, and sorrow, the anointing went up when I ministered out of weakness and pain. But I was struggling to hear God for myself in the quiet. I asked Him, How come I can hear You for everybody else but I can’t hear You for what I’m going through? He said, the teacher never talks when he’s giving you a test, because He’s already given you everything you need to pass the test – God has not set us up for failure, but to succeed. He has set you up and has given you everything you need to see it accomplished and established in the earth. This is not a season for shrinking back but for fully launching forward. I believe there is not just winter, spring, summer, and fall, but there is a fifth season in God called Due season.
And we exult in hope of the glory of God.3 And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance;4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;5 and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Here’s what I noticed when my wife went to give birth. – I didn’t feel anything at all. At the hardest point, when they said, it’s time to push, I never heard my wife say, not now - Can we reschedule the due date? - There was an appointed time in God for each one of those babies to be born. When the pressure was the greatest it wasn’t a time to stop or postpone; it was a time to push. God is moving us into a season of pushing – It’s time to push back. I’m tired of hearing what the enemy is doing. LISTEN – just call me Captain Obvious. The church is under attack and has been for 2000 years. Here’s what I heard in my spirit today, “COUNTER ATTACK”. It’s not a time to be on the defensive just trying to hold ground. The kingdom of the devil is stationary, but the Kingdom of God is always moving and expanding. I believe this is a season to begin to push back. Why? Because I believe this is the season of the set up. If you birth something prematurely there can be problems – death or deformity, but equally and even more dangerous is to go way past your due date – It can become toxic to the mother and both could die. I’m here to tell you right now some of you are overdue! (2x) God right now is about to release an inducing and bring things into fruition like never before. Here’s what I heard the Lord say to declare over Grace Center - You are stepping into the season of the suddenly! (2X) Malachi 3:1 - "I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come," says the LORD Almighty.
This is the season – that as you go after him, you are about to hear the sound of the suddenly – He’s about to birth some things. In the process, we’ve all been through some things. Every time I receive a promise, as exciting as I get about that, I know it’s going to cost me something – There’s going to be stretching, fighting. Paul told Timothy go to warfare over the word God has given you. Anything God gives you is worth fighting for. When does the enemy come to steal the word – immediately – Hebrews 10:32 - Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering.
When you get a word from God the spotlight of Heaven comes on you and the enemy tries to put a big ole bullseye on you. The enemy knows he can’t stop it, so he tries to get you to delay it, move out of position, to quit in the process, so it doesn’t happen. Every promise of God will have its birthday,. It will have its day, even if it feels dead on the inside of you. I’ve discovered that every dream has its debt before it has its day. My path has been a little bit difficult. I used to love prophetic words until I got a couple, and then I said I’m just overwhelmed.
I heard these words today, some of you, God is calling you out of what you’ve known so you can step into what you’ve never known – There is an Abrahamic faith being released in the room today. Abraham had everything going for him – everything was great in Ur. There was just one problem. It was Ur. Sometimes we get content in Ur, then God says, leave everything you’ve ever known and go to where you’ve never been - go “there” – If you want to know where Grace Center is going – We’re going – “there” - We don’t know what it looks like except that its builder and maker is God – Every day it’s a discovery. We don’t get to determine our destiny, just discover it. I heard the Lord say, He is about to restore the joy of the journey.
I’ll never forget – I had this vision 4 years ago when I was in a plane crash and dying of malaria. I saw a picture of Jesus on the cross – He was tore up and unrecognizable, and He had this huge smile on his face when He said it is finished and hung his head and died. – I said that’s not the picture I’ve ever seen in my head, why would He be smiling on the cross? He said, it was because of the joy set before him, He endured the cross – God wants to restore the joy of the journey – There’s joy coming like never before. I believe the days of comfort creature Christianity are coming to an end.
Last year about this time God told me to take a different, very inconvenient flight home from a conference, and I said I don’t want to. I don’t feel like it. You could hear the laughter of Heaven. He said, I don’t care how you feel because your feelings don’t care about your future. Your feelings just want to be met right now. If I feel sad, I just want to be happy. If I feel mad, I just want to feel peace. If I feel hungry, I just want to eat. I will do whatever it takes to get this stuff that’s supposed to be dying every day to feel better. So I said Yes sir.
God is willing to inconvenience you – He is willing to let you feel uncomfortable – whatever it takes to get you where He wants you. For some of us it may be the many, for some of us the one person. God wants to take the church outside. I wonder what would happen if we were completely abandoned to obedience – I heard the Lord say it’s not a matter of big church little church – not a matter of this church or that one – it’s now a matter of life and death – Then He said I need you to listen the first time – the thing that will cause the most frustration, and keep people out of the promises of God in this season, is being a second opinion Christian. How many of you get a word from God that’s confirmed by 2 or 3 witnesses, and you want another opinion – The first confirmations got to be right here – thumps heart – Who cares about my comfort when every moment there is someone who needs Jesus and I was designed to be the voice – There’s an awakening coming like never before – I love 2 Corinthians – All the promises of God are yes and in him, amen – God the Father made the promise, Jesus went to the cross and said yes by his blood, and by it we say amen – so be it or so it be – It’s the perfect alignment – it’s the perfect getting into agreement with Heaven. LISTEN – I’ve tried doing things my way, even ministry, and it doesn’t work, and it becomes very frustrating. Then I’ve done it his way and it’s very rewarding. It seems like it’s going to be costly, but when you do it his way, it’s more profitable than ever before. God wants to take you from busy to productive.
Listen, sometimes we go through seasons of testing just to train us. He didn’t bring us all this way to fall down or turn around. He’s setting us up to launch us forward. It’s time to believe like never before – Zach 9:12 - Return to your fortress, you prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you.
I’m not a prisoner of life’s circumstances, situations, surroundings, pain, or my past, but I am a prisoner of hope. You can come to the end of your rope, but you’ll never come to the end of his hope – I heard the Lord say, hold onto hope because hope is holding onto you! I feel hope rising in the room today. There’s a healing of hope that is rising - bubbling forth like never before. I felt like the Lord said “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” – I saw Grace Center filled with trees of life – Fresh faith is coming.
Saw a church sign on my way to the airport yesterday – “Faith doesn’t make things easy, but it makes all things possible”. God is releasing that faith that will make all things possible. He’s bringing many of you out of the desert – the place of waiting. There was an appointed time for Joseph’s dream to come through. Joseph’s dream coming through was a process. Joseph had an anointing that ticked of his family. You can tick people off by having a dream when they don’t. We expect people to celebrate our dreams, the great things we’re called to do. Then the process begins; we go into the prepared (before the foundation of the world) pit of placement and preparation, to contain us and to get us ready for what’s coming, and sometimes the dream begins to die. Potipher’s wife didn’t want his clothes; she wanted his mantle. Joseph could have had a poor me mentality, but he always lived above his circumstances – above where everyone told him he could. He didn’t complain, but believed that what is meant for evil, God will work for my good. The dreamer got out of prison and even more importantly, the prison got out of him.
Here’s what I heard the Lord say this morning – Here come the dreamers – People will spitefully use you, but keep your eyes on the promises of God because God is about to turn some things around - Psalm 107:2 – Let the redeemed of the lord say SO.
How can you be a preacher because you’re divorced? - SO - Your parents gave you up for adoption - SO – There comes a moment where I say, my past can’t stop my future! Where you say SO to everything, the enemy throws against you.
I feel like the Lord said as I wrap up – none of which I intended to preach - God is positioning you for the season of the complete and total turn around. He’s about to turn some things around on your behalf. He’s about to move you into a place of completely receiving the promises and the fullness of God. This is a season to accelerate toward the promises of God – There’s a stirring that He’s releasing – LISTEN - Don’t let anyone talk you out of your promises – what God said in your life - your miracle – It’s a season for the ridiculous – God’s about to release ridiculous favor and miracles in your midst. What you walked through simply positioned you.
Here’s what I’ve discovered – The things I thought were designed to kill me, God used to activate an anointing in me I never knew I had – The pit, the prison, the palace, what I thought were my enemies, God turned into my ushers – to the point where a few years ago, God actually had me write thank you letters to those who had hurt me (not all of which I sent – Thank you for molesting me, telling me I would fail, stealing from me) They were my ushers to get my eyes off of everything else and on Jesus. The Lord is saying over you - This is the season to dream again. There is new vision coming on old dreams. I hear the sound of the suddenly coming! (2x) – The moment you’ve been waiting for isn’t coming, but is upon you – that you can step into like never before – This is a season of stepping into the dreams and the destiny of God – He’s molding you and preparing you for such a time as this. I believe it is a time to see the fullness of the dreams come to pass for his glory and our benefit – things that, if you will endure, there is greater victory.
There are some of you who feel like your dream has had its death, but now God says, it’s having its day. There’s an anointing dropping into the room right now.(2x) As you step out of August, you’re moving into the season of the suddenlys.
I thank You for the open Heaven over Grace Center – I thank You for the things that are being developed. I saw this picture of an old camera where the film development happens in a darkroom. Some of you got a snapshot of your promise, but you’ve been stuck in the negative. Some of you got moved to the darkroom – not to destroy you or keep you hidden, but to develop you. God is about to develop the dream on the inside of you and people are about to see the vibrancy of the picture – the snapshot of the glory of God.
I feel the winds of purpose for many of you who are between assignments – I feel resurrection life in the room. I don’t know if I articulated everything I was supposed to, but I feel like I did everything God wanted me to do. I believe between the first and the second services, the Lord has put a puzzle together that will lay out what is to happen over the next season.
I heard the Spirit of the Lord say this is the season to look up and to look out. Help is coming from the Heavenlies. The harvest stands ready on the horizon. It’s time to go and gather all that I have promised. It is time to step into even what others have sown, but did not see in their lifetime.
This is the season to bless the Lord oh my soul and do no forget my benefits – I saw the benefits of God coming into this room. I heard the Lord say that I am getting ready to release a new wind - a new wave of my glory and my grace and my goodness. I’m going to lavish my love upon you in extreme and extravagant ways. I’m redeeming the time. I’m restoring the years. I am bringing you into a place of the recompense of reward, where you will find what has been lost and recover what has been stolen. You will see my hand rebuild what has been destroyed in the heat of battle. For it is your time to shine – to come alive - time to take off yesterday – time to live without reservation and without regret.
I am moving you into a season where you will hear me in the whisper. You have passed the test of the last season, and now I am promoting you and graduating you to a new season.
Everything that could be shaken, was shaken, and everything that could be stirred was stirred. But now I’m going to begin to cause this to be a season where you will begin to reap the benefits of the shaken, for the unshakable Kingdom in you will remain. Know this – I am getting ready to release to you not only the harvest, but the heart. I am releasing the heart of the region to you. I am opening up the hearts of nations to you. I have made you a landing strip and a launching pad unto myself. For you have given Me a place to land and to live. This will also be a season and a place where I will cause people to be launched into destiny and purpose like never before.
Do not be distracted when I am breaking you through - bringing you out. For the Lord says, I am ushering you in. Those who have seemed to be your enemies, in some cases, will become your best friends. Those who have been resistant will see their walls of resistance coming down. For I am going to release harvest in families of Grace Center. You will see sons and daughters come from afar. I am causing this place to beat with the Fathers heart. I heard a door open and shut, and I heard the Lord say, the Father has come home. When the father comes in the house everything is ready and in order - everything is provided for, and everything is protected.
This is going to be a season and a time where God is taking you beyond visitation, into habitation culture. There is something you must know and understand – you are the dwelling place of God.
Get ready to dream again. Get ready to run again – I heard the Lord say - full steam ahead! That this is a season where I am releasing you out of the gate of August and I am moving you into supernatural September, open Heaven October. I’m releasing you in this season says the Lord, where you’re about to see my hand move like never before. Even in the month of November, says the Lord, I will cause there to be an aligning, even in the governments of TN and America. For the government of God is getting ready. And I saw two twin towers rising up, and I heard the Lord say Tennessee and Texas – and I felt like there’s going to be a pivot point even within those two places, of righteousness, and family, and faith, that’s going to begin to shift things like never before. And I felt like the Lord said that He is restoring the order of things in the house of God. As it goes with the house of God, so will it go with Franklin, so will it go with Brentwood, so will it go with Nashville, so will it go with America, so will it go with the nations.
There is divine alignment for the assignment that is ahead. Do not despise the days of small beginnings. Do not despise the days in which you were hidden. For know this - This is the season of unveiling, and I’m breaking you through it and I’m breaking you beyond like never before....
This is a house of hilarious hope – God has created a safe place so you can live dangerously.
Lord right now will you take every word spoken and seal it to our hearts this morning. I’m a little over time, but Lord, You are always on time. I heard these words – Preparation belongs to us, but timing belongs to the Lord. You must prepare to accommodate for what you have never heard, seen, or known. I heard these words in the Spirit - What are we going to do with them all? Where are we going to put them all? Lord, right now, fill this place to overflowing – first with your presence, then with your people. Saturate this place with your power and with your might. I thank You that they are a persistent bunch in this place - to bombard heaven - to open the floodgates Jesus.
In Jesus' name