Mike Bickle emphasizes the end-time revelation of Jesus as the Bridegroom, King, and Judge, highlighting the simultaneous occurrence of the greatest revival and the worst sin in human history. He explains that understanding these three facets of Jesus is crucial for believers, as they reflect His desire for relationship, His power, and His righteous judgment. Bickle encourages the audience to embrace all three aspects, asserting that they are interconnected and essential for a complete understanding of Jesus' character. He calls for a commitment to grow in the knowledge of Jesus as the Bridegroom, while also recognizing the importance of His role as King and Judge. The sermon concludes with a call to action for the audience to respond to this revelation and to stand firm in their faith.

I'll give you a minute to get your seat. Page 7, the end-time revelation of Jesus as bridegroom, king, and judge. Now, I won't cover all the notes in any of the sessions, but the notes are for your study in your private time. But I'll just pick out a few paragraphs here and there to focus on. Those that are joining us with God TV and the Internet, we have these notes at IHOP.org. The end-time revelation of Jesus as bridegroom, king, and judge. Let's pray. Father, I ask You, in the name of Jesus, that You would magnify Your Son, that You would mark our heart tonight by the spirit of wisdom and revelation of the knowledge of Jesus. I ask You for a supernatural inspiration and understanding of Your heart and Your Word. In Jesus' name, amen. Paragraph A, the years leading up to the return of Jesus will be very dramatic and very unique. There will be unique dynamics that are positive and unique dynamics that are very negative. They will both be happening at the same time in one generation. The greatest revival in human history, surpassing even the book of Acts, is going to be released. But not only is the greatest revival going to be released, sin is going to increase at a level beyond any time in human history. Satan's rage against the human race will roar with fury like no other time in human history. And the judgments of God against the kingdom of darkness will be the most severe. So at the very same time, the greatest revival, the worst sin, Satan's greatest attack, and God's most severe judgments on the kingdom of darkness, all of them happening at the same time. Now beloved, that will be the most unique hour in human history. In my opinion, there are people alive right now that will see these dynamics, these events, with their eyes before they die. Maybe it's the 20-year-olds. It's your generation. Maybe it's the 2-year-olds. I don't know. No one knows the day or the hour. But I believe there's people alive today on the earth that will see this dramatic increase of light and dark happening simultaneous. What is your picture of the future? How do you picture 20, 30, 40, 50 years from now? I believe that the Bible gives us insight as to what the decades ahead will look like. The light will get lighter, meaning the revival will increase. But the darkness will get darker. Jesus said that the wheat, that's good, and the tares, that's bad, they will mature together at the end of the age. Matthew 13, verse 30. Paragraph B. This is a very important sentence, very simple sentence. I'm not going to prove it all tonight. I'm just going to declare the conclusion without taking the time to prove it in detail. But I can prove it if I had time. I'm just going to say it to you. And I have quite a bit in the notes that I won't go through tonight. But here it is. That the Word, the written Word of God, and the Spirit, the prophetic anointing, the Holy Spirit speaking to the church, will emphasize Jesus as bridegroom, king, and judge, in a very strategic and dynamic way in the generation the Lord returns. I'm going to say that again. The Bible backs this up. And again, I've got verses here, but I'm not going to go through them all. But the Spirit is going to emphasize three facets of Jesus' character and ministry in the generation the Lord returns, which I believe we're in the early days of that generation. The Holy Spirit is going to reveal Jesus as the bridegroom God. The Holy Spirit is going to reveal Jesus as the great king with great power. And the Holy Spirit is going to reveal Jesus as the great judge. Now in the Bible, there's over 300 names of God or descriptions of God. His titles or names. And they describe 300 different facets of His personality. And all 300 of the names of God are very, very important. But there's three of them that are going to be emphasized above all of the others. Jesus as bridegroom God, paragraph C. Now this is a new idea to many people, but it's firmly established in the Bible. I'm not going to describe all that's involved in Jesus the bridegroom, but I'll give just a couple phrases and then I will leave you to study it more on your own. Jesus the bridegroom, He's the God with burning desire for His people. The God that desires, who delights in, who enjoys His people in a profound way. He enjoys relating to them and He wants to be with them and He wants them to be with Him wherever He is. That's the bridegroom God. The God of desire. Desire for people. Desire for close relationship. Then there's Jesus the King. He's the God of power. He's the one who heals the sick. He's the one that provides financially supernatural miracles of finance. He gives protection, direction. He has power over all the works of darkness Jesus the King. That's the Jesus most people are familiar with. The Jesus of power. And then there's the Jesus who is judge. Who is zealous to remove everything that hinders love on the planet. Jesus who is judge is the most unfamiliar of these three faces of God. The righteous judge who is zealous to remove everything that hinders love. The reason he judges, he moves everything out of the way that gets in the way of love. Now there's no contradiction between Jesus as bridegroom filled with desire, King, full of power, and judge, zealous to remove everything that hinders love. Some people pick one of the three. Some streams in the body of Christ, they go, we're really into the King with power. We don't know much about the bridegroom with great desire. Some people say, we know about the bridegroom with desire, but we're not so into supernatural power and healing and finances and miracles and all those things. We're just into just being alone with Jesus. They don't understand Jesus the King. Very few emphasize Jesus the judge. But let me tell you, Jesus the judge is expressing his desire as a bridegroom to remove everything that gets in the way of love. Jesus is going to intervene with great zeal to take matters into his hands and he's going to transition this planet to the age to come. He has a very specific plan, Jesus the judge. He is going to be intervening into human history like no other time in history and he's going to stop the oppressors. He's going to confront the wicked and he's going to cleanse the entire planet from darkness. That's Jesus the judge. Again, there's no contradiction. The Jesus of desire, the Jesus of power, and the Jesus with zeal to confront, they are different facets of the one diamond of this glorious man who is fully God and fully man. Look at paragraph C. The passionate bridegroom, the God with burning desire for people. As a king, he shows his power. As a bridegroom, he expresses his desire. As a king, he calls for obedience. As a bridegroom, he calls for partnership. He wants obedience, but he says, I want to do it with you. As a king, he gives us mandates and assignments and tasks to do. As a bridegroom, he wants dialogue with our heart. He wants to do it together with us. No contradiction. Different facets of his heart. My emphasis tonight is more on Jesus, the bridegroom God. I'm going to touch the king a little bit and I'm going to touch the judge a little bit, but I want to leave you with a vision that you want to know all three facets of Jesus' personality and ministry as described by these three titles. Bridegroom, King, and Judge. You're not going to pick one against the other. And the reason is this. The Bible backs up all three of them in a very, very specific way and the Spirit is emphasizing all three of them. And we will never understand Jesus the King with power unless we understand the bridegroom and judge. We will never understand the bridegroom unless we understand the king and the judge. We must understand all three in order to understand each specific one of those truths. Now men may say, bridegroom, what is that about? Well, women are called to be sons of God and men are called to be the bride of Christ. It has nothing to do with gender. It has to do with a position of privilege in relationship to God. Meaning this, as sons of God, men and women, we experience His power, His throne. As the bride of Christ, men and women, we experience His heart. Which do we want most? His power or His heart? And the answer is, you don't have to choose. He wants you to experience both. Now, one thing that we emphasize over and over is that there are no sensual overtones in the relationship of Jesus, the bridegroom God, and the church as His bride. There are no sensual overtones in that relationship. Sometimes we'll have some young ones come into our Bible school, some young ladies, and they talk about Jesus like He's their boyfriend. He is never going to be your boyfriend. Never. He is not your boyfriend now, and He never will be your boyfriend. Now, that's only about 1%, but some of them are heartbroken. I go, you don't go on date nights with Jesus. That's not the right paradigm. 99% of you have that clear. But there's always a few, you know, they light the candles, turn off the phone, have date night with Jesus. I go, keep the candles on, that's cool, that's fine. If you like candles, but it's not a date night. He is the Genesis 1 God who is filled with majesty and power and holy. There are no sensual overtones at all. David, the great warrior king of Israel, was the great lover of God. The greatest warrior king in Israel's history was a lovesick worshiper of God. There was nothing that violated his masculinity and being a lover of God. Now, we use the term here at IHOP, lover of God. And some people misunderstand how we use that term. And I want you to understand it so you apply it right. When we say lover of God, we don't mean romance, sensuality. We mean that God, we are more than workers, we're also lovers. We're not just on a work assignment, we actually love Him. In Revelation chapter 2, Jesus appeared and spoke to the church. In Revelation 2 verse 4, and He said this, you work very hard. You are so diligent in ministry. He said, I see the perseverance that you have in your work. You minister night and day, you reach the poor, you work, you work, you work, that's good. And then He shocked them. Revelation 2, 4, He goes, but even though you work for Me, I have this against you. Against you? How could Jesus have anything against a ministry that worked as diligently as they did? Revelation chapter 2, verse 4, I don't have this on the notes. You might jot that verse down if that touches your heart. Jesus said, I have this against you. You don't love Me like you used to. You are workers, but you're no longer lovers. And again, we're not using the word lovers in the sensual boyfriend-girlfriend term, we're using it as in contrast to only being workers. He says, I appreciate your work. I like it, but that's not enough for Me, because I'm a God that desires love and relationship. I'm not just looking for a workforce. And He rebuked them, because they did not understand the nature of His heart and the nature of redemption. How many of you know He's not just looking for a workforce. He actually likes you. He wants you. But this is new to many people. They know it's kind of, but I have good news for you. The Holy Spirit is going to emphasize the revelation of Jesus as a bridegroom God in the generation the Lord returns. I want to encourage you to do this. To set your heart tonight, and you say in the next year or two, I am determined to grow in understanding of Jesus the bridegroom God. I don't really understand it, but I want to go after it. God is stirring up men and women across the earth. They're writing on this subject. There's new songs on this subject, and there's a new emphasis going on in the last 10 or 15 years worldwide that is unveiling Jesus the bridegroom, the God of deep desire, burning desire. Look at paragraph G. Paragraph G. Into page 7. Jesus in His final week of ministry, He presented God two times. He had two sermons, Matthew 22 and Matthew 25, that ended His earthly ministry before He went to the upper room. And in both of these sermons, you can study it out later, He presented Himself, He presented the Godhead as bridegroom, king, and judge. The Bible itself, the last four books of the Bible, the book of Revelation, the final four chapters of the Revelation, the book of Revelation, Jesus is set forth bridegroom, king, and judge. It is not an accident. It was His final emphasis, and it's the final revelation of God in the Bible, and it's the final revelation of the Holy Spirit before the Lord returns. Top of page 9. Why do you care about this? Because God's calling many of you to be messengers, not of only one of these. He doesn't want you to pick your favorite. He wants you to understand His heart, and faithfully proclaim the truth about who He is to this generation. Beloved, there is much distortion of truth being preached about Jesus even in the church today. It's a distortion of truth. We are zealous to say whatever your word says, we want to stand with your word, whether it's popular or not popular, it does not matter to us. So I'm telling you tonight, many of you 20 years old, 21, 22, bridegroom, king, and judge, note it. Decide in your heart, this is where I'm going, Holy Spirit. I want to go what the word says about Jesus in that final generation, and I want to say and do what the Spirit says and the Spirit does, and it's not enough to pick one over the other two. Paragraph H. John the Baptist, the forerunner, he was the first man in the New Testament to bring together these three truths, bridegroom, king, and judge. He was the first man, the first forerunner, and he is a prototype of the end-of-the-age forerunners. Paragraph I. These truths are central to the forerunner ministry. Many of you are called to the forerunner ministry. You say, I don't fully know what it means, but I know in my spirit my life has something to do with this calling, the forerunner calling, like John the Baptist had. As John prepared the first return of the Lord, there will be millions of forerunners preparing for the second return of the Lord across the earth. Now, in my own life, and I'm telling you my personal journey, just a little bit of it, so that some of you can relate to it, and learn from some of the mistakes I made and some of the hesitations I had. In fact, in the 1970s, a long time ago, I began my pastoral ministry, and like everybody that I knew, we were all focused on Jesus the King. That was the most familiar. He would heal. He would deliver. He would provide finances. He would open doors. He would give favor in relationship. He would flex His muscles, show His power, so to flex His muscles, so to speak, show His power, and do great works, and everyone I knew was into Jesus the King, and that's good. That's really good. But it's not the whole message. Then in the 1980s, the most surprising thing happened, which I'm going to give you just a little short story on. God interrupted my life, and He said, I want you to talk on the bridegroom, not just the King. I didn't understand any of this. I go, bridegroom? I'm a guy. What do I care about bridegroom? Man, the revelation of the burning heart of God does not undermine your masculinity. It will establish it, even like David, and like John the Baptist, and John the Apostle, and the others. I assure you, David was no wimp. He was consumed with the beauty of God, and the desire of God for Him, and His desire for God. Well, the 1990s, He began to challenge me with the most difficult of the three, the revelation of Jesus the Judge, the God who breaks in, who intervenes to remove everything, and confront everything that hinders love. This was new to me. Now, technically, I knew Jesus was a judge. I never thought about it much. I never heard about it, but the Lord visited me in various ways. I'll tell a couple short stories in just a moment. And He began to say, I am a judge, not just a bridegroom, not just a king. I want you to bring all three of them together, and those are foundational to the forerunner ministry. But many of you are in your early 20s. You don't have to wait 20 or 30 years to put the pieces together like I did. You can begin right now with clarity on all three of those dimensions. Again, tonight, my real emphasis is on Jesus the Bridegroom. I encourage you to determine in your heart, I want to know this facet of your heart, Jesus, the God of desire. We have quite a few resources on the internet, I won't go through them, on Jesus the Bridegroom. They're all free. You can have the notes, our copyrights, the right to copy. You can put your name on them, your mother's name on them. They're yours to do anything with that you want. I want to encourage you to get some of those notes, and from other ministries as well. Determine, I'm going to learn about the Bridegroom God, and I'm going to learn more about the King in power, and I want to know about this mysterious dimension of the zealous judge who intervenes and removes everything that gets in the way of love. Because all three of them are coming together, very possibly within the lifetime of people in this room. And you want to be a part of the solution, not a part of the problem, because Jesus the Judge is going to cause a lot of confusion to a lot of people. Roman numeral two. The crisis of God's judgment. There will be a crisis related to the subject of God's judgment. Many people who love Jesus, they see his judgment as a contradiction to his love, and that's the devil's number one lie, is that Jesus is a liar if he's a judge, and that's the devil's lie, and that lie fills the church today. And you don't want to participate in that. You want to expose it, and you want to point your finger at the truth as to who Jesus is. The devil comes along and says, if God was a God of love, there would be no judgment. And it makes sense to the humanistic mindset. But let me tell you this. It's his love that motivates him to intervene. He looks at what's happening on the earth, and he says, no. I am going to do something. I'm going to intervene. I'm going to stop oppression. I'm going to stop darkness. I'm going to drive it off the planet, and I'm not going to violate anyone's free will, and if they won't say yes to me, I will deal with it in a way like no other time in history, because I love my people, and I love the planet. His judgment is actually an expression of his burning desire. His love, it's not a contradiction. But a lot of people, they don't get this. I have paragraph A here. If people lack understanding about this feature, they will be far more vulnerable to fear. Look at this in paragraph A. Offense at God. They'll be mad at God. They will be in confusion. They will be tempted with compromise and deception. Meaning, the Bible is clear. Bridegroom, King, and Judge. There's no man that can trump the Word of God and dismiss a part of the revelation of God. Jesus is not running for a popularity contest. He's a God of burning desire. He's about to cleanse the entire planet of darkness and establish not just righteousness and justice, but love and relationship with Him to fill the entire earth, and I believe that that transitional generation could be the one you're living in. Where He transitions this earth to the age to come. And maybe it's not in your generation. It may be in your children or grandchildren, but I believe it's coming soon. Nobody knows the day or the hour. Romans number 3, the middle page 9. I'm going to tell just a few stories about how the Lord interrupted my life. And I'm only telling the stories to help you relate to these things for your own life. And as Brian mentioned earlier, we have a series called the Encountering Jesus series where I took eight one hour sessions before our whole staff at our 10 year anniversary and I told testimonies or reports Testimonies isn't quite right. It's more than testimonies. I told about supernatural events that have happened over the last 25 years and I took eight one hour sessions to tell these stories. And the reason I tell these stories, it caused the people in our world, our little IHOP world to understand how God emphasized these messages. But it's not about IHOP. I believe God's emphasizing these truths to many, many outside of all the other, whatever stream you're in, God's visiting the whole body of Christ across the earth. And I also told these stories because I wanted people to grow in faith and understanding of what I believe is happening in your generation. And these eight one hour stories, that's what they mostly are, stories, they're events about angelic encounters, the audible voice of God, and a number of supernatural interventions where God emphasized in an undeniable way from my point of view, what He wanted us to emphasize. And I believe that a number of you will find it relevant for your ministry and your city and your region back home. Again, you can get it on the internet, all eight sessions, they're free. You can get hard copies in the bookstore if you want them, but you can get it for free on the internet. We're not trying to sell anything, we're trying to inspire people and give them courage to walk in truth. Well our call, I'm talking about the IHOP call, but I think some of you can relate to it in your ministry back home. Our call to emphasize Jesus as bridegroom, king, and judge. The first one was in May, 1983. I won't go into the detail here because I spent a half hour telling the story on one of those eight sessions called in the Encounter Jesus series. But there were about 500 to 1,000 young adults in May 1983 and we were fasting and praying for 21 days. This was 28 years ago. We were crying out to the Lord, I was in my 20s, all of us were in our 20s, and I'll let you hear the story if you want to, but the Lord spoke audibly back in May, 1983. And he said this, the audible voice of the Lord, do 24 hour prayer. I had never thought of such an idea. I was completely surprised by this. I thought, why would I want to do 24 hour prayer? That doesn't even make sense to me. Honestly. Because I was, my focus was an evangelist. I was a soul winner. I thought an intercessor was a would-be evangelist who went astray and used Bible verses to back it up. When I saw an intercessor, I go, yeah. Total wimp. Using Bible verses to get out of the battle. Right. Intercessor. How convenient. You sluggard. Rise up and do the work of the kingdom. For real. I'm not even joking. Intercessors bugged me. The Lord said, do 24 hour prayer. I mean, today is exciting. It's 28 years later. I'm glad. But then it was bizarre. And he spoke Psalm 27 verse 4 as the primary verse. Let's look at it. This was the statement of David. David said, one thing I've desired. That I will seek all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord. I thought, the Lord told us to do 24 hour prayer based on this passage. Again, it's a 30 minute story. I'm not going to tell you. But I go, the beauty of God. What? I mean, my approach was devil come out or I'm coming in after you. That's how I prayed. Gaze on the beauty of God and 24, what? Long story. I'm not going into it tonight. But he spoke it audibly. I was riveted. We put a sign on the wall 28 years ago. We put the sign on the wall that said 24 hour prayer. We put the sign. And everyone that would visit our church as our church grew over the years, they would say, what's that? And I said, for years, 16 years. We had that sign on the wall for 16 years before we ever started IHOP. They would say, what's that? I go, I don't know. Seriously. 24 hour prayer with the beauty of God. Like, whatever. I mean, I wasn't disrespectful. I couldn't feel it. I just couldn't understand it. Paragraph B. Bob to page 9. Two years went by. Five years go by. I'm still pastoring. July 1988. This was the most surprising experience I've ever had in my life. I get a wedding card. One morning, I'm going through my mail. And the wedding card has Song of Solomon 8 verse 6 and 7. You have it right there written down for you. Jesus says, set me as a seal upon your heart. Like, what a cool verse. I mean, what a great wedding card verse. I looked at it and I went, wow! I begin to pray Jesus touched my heart with fire and a very unusual thing happened. I begin to just suddenly, instantly begin to weep and the presence of God came on me. It was the most unusual experience that I've ever had like that. I've had one or two of those in my life, but I didn't know what was happening. I felt His presence and I was saying, Lord, release Your power on me and be the seal of fire on my heart. That's awesome. I pick up the phone, talk to the receptionist. No matter who calls, don't let anyone disturb me. Something unusual is happening to me. I don't know what's happening. I hung up, just talked 10 seconds, and I'm weeping before the Lord on my knees, reading the Song of Solomon, chapter 8, verse 6. 10 minutes later, the receptionist calls. He said, Bob Jones is on the phone. He's a very powerful prophetic man. And he said he's heard the audible voice for you. I thought I better interrupt you. I said, I'm weeping. I go, what? He goes, Bob Jones just called. And I tell this story in depth on that series. I'm not going to tell it in depth now. And he goes, he heard the audible voice of the Lord. He goes, I thought I should let him in. I mean, it is the audible voice of God. What am I supposed to do? I go, no, that's good. Anyone that hears the audible voice of God, go ahead and let him in. So I'm on my knees and I'm weeping. I go, yeah, Bob. He goes, Mike, I only have one minute. He goes, I heard the audible voice of God. He told me to call you now. I'm just like, hurry up, you know, because I'm so touched by the Lord. He goes, the Lord said he's going to speak to you from Song of Solomon, chapter 8, verse 6. He's speaking to you right now. I didn't even tell Bob. I know. I didn't say nothing. I go, yeah, click. I mean, it was a 45 second conversation, I think. Like a one minute. But he said, he goes, God's going to release Song of Solomon, 8, 6 to you, and he wants you to know two things. He's going to release this across the whole body of Christ worldwide, this anointing to, this anointing described in this verse, which is the anointing of the first commandment to love God. And number two, he wants you to focus on this passage, this truth the rest of your days. I just hang up, and I just weep, and weep, and I mean, the power of God's touching me, I don't know what's happening. So, some time goes by, it kind of lifts, and I'm kind of wrung out. I call my wife, Diane. That's it. Remember five years ago when God spoke audibly and said 24 hour prayer? Well, five years later, he did it again, and he said Song of Solomon. Now, incidentally, in 35 years of ministry, that's the only two times it's ever happened on those two points. And why did it happen on these two points? Because I did not have enough discernment to understand those truths. Reading the Bible, I needed a supernatural wake up, an alert, because I couldn't see the power of those truths from my own Bible study. I needed help. I needed something to wake me up to how important this was. So, I didn't receive it because I was special. I received it because I was dull, and I couldn't find those truths in the Bible though they were in the Bible all along. Two times in 35 years, the Lord has given me an audible voice of the Lord directive, 24 hour prayer with singers and musicians, and sing and focus on the Bride of Christ, is really what that was in the first commandment. I am so excited. Two times in five years. I thought I was on a roll. I thought maybe next five years I'll have two more. It didn't work that way. It was two times ever. So, my wife Diane, she was very excited. Hang up the phone. It's still in the morning. I decide since I'm going to teach this book all my days, I should read it at least once. I've never read it before. Well, that's not entirely true. I've read the Song of Solomon when I was a youth pastor to make jokes for the youth group. But that's not really reading it the real way. Don't you dare do that. So, I read the Song of Solomon in a serious way for the first time all eight chapters. I am horrified. Song of Solomon, like fragrance, perfume, body parts, pearls, jewels, gardens, roses, body parts, perfume. I am horrified. I go home. My wife Diane says, what an awesome day. I go, this is a horrible day. Horrible. She goes, what? I thought you heard the outer voice of God. I go, I did. She goes, what could be bad about that? I go, have you ever read the Song of Solomon? She goes, yes, it's awesome. I go, give it to the women's ministry. I want nothing to do with it. For real. I go, I want to teach the life of David, the book of Romans, even the book of Revelation. I don't want no wimpy Song of Solomon stuff. I'm not even interested. Well, the Lord wasn't asking my opinion when he gave that mandate. It was a shock. It was so surprising. I began in 1988. I said, well, I don't think I'm getting out of this. But I was confused. Am I supposed to do 24-hour prayer? Or am I supposed to do Song of Solomon, Bride of Christ, First Commandment, Love God with all of your heart? Because that's what Song of Solomon is really about, the First Commandment. The desire of God. I go, which is it, God? I am totally confused. Do I do 24-7 prayer? Do I do Song of Solomon? It takes me a few years to understand it is the same calling. I remember when I figured it out that the only way the 24-hour prayer will work if people are energized by experiencing intimacy with God's heart. And intercessors, let me tell you, intercession without encountering the desire of God's heart will wear you out over the years. It really will. You cannot sustain 24-hour prayer if the singers and the musicians and the intercessors do not encounter the God of Song of Solomon. Or let me say it this way, the revelation of God's desire for His people. Well, it's 1988. I don't know anything about Song of Solomon, but I begin to study it. And to my complete surprise and shock, that book transformed my life. It was one of the most gracious assignments God ever gave me. But it took me a few years to connect the dots and make sense of it. And again, we have lots of teaching on the Song of Solomon on our website. And though I believe the Song of Solomon is about the beauty of married love in the natural, that is how it was written. There is a higher meaning, I believe, in both interpretations. I believe it is about the beauty of married love, but it's not only about that. It's about the desire of Jesus for His people with no central overtones whatsoever. It's about the heart of God and the heart of His people engaged and the delight and the passion and the love that He feels for us as weak and broken people. It will radically change your life. Top of page 11. I'm going to tell you another story. It's seven years later now. So I've been reading Song of Solomon now for seven years, and it's I'm really starting to like it. By 1995, I'm going, wow. Roman numeral four. I have this prophetic dream. And in this prophetic dream, I'm in a large auditorium. I believe I'm in this auditorium. Back in 1995, 15 years ago, I'm in a large auditorium with young people, with cement floor and big walls, and I'm convinced it was this auditorium. And I'm standing on the stage and there's thousands of young people and in this dream, it's very vivid, very real, and the audible voice of God like thunder, like it comes like from over there, thunder, and He says this, call them Hephzibah. Call them Hephzibah for the Lord delights in you. The Lord delights in you. And I wake up from this dream and the presence of God is on me. I turn to Isaiah 62 and the Lord says this, you shall be called Hephzibah. And here's what Hephzibah means in the Hebrew. God really, really likes you. He delights in you. But surely the Lord knows we are weak and broken people. The Lord says, tell them. Tell them in that big auditorium I really, really delight in them. Tell them. Tell them this. Beloved, it's my joy to stand before you 15 years later and say this, with the authority of the Word of God and the Spirit's prophetic unction, He looks at you and He says, I like you. I delight in you. You're not just a workforce. You are the passion of my heart and you have no idea who you are to me. You cannot know how I feel about you. And of course you would say, some of you, Lord, I'm weak. I'm broken. There isn't a person in this room, myself included, that is not weak and broken. This isn't about how good we are. It's about the passion in this man's heart who's fully God and fully man. As I proclaim that over this large congregation, their hearts shifted. They had a new view of God and therefore a new view of themselves. As I proclaim this truth, their countenance changed right there in that meeting. It shifted everything. You mean he enjoys me? He likes me? In that case, I won't run from him. I will run to him. The Hephzibah message is the God delights in you message. It's very similar to the Song of Solomon. It's the first commandment. Now look at this verse. Isaiah 62. Intercessors, pay close attention. I want to help you avoid a very serious mistake that I made. Look at verse 4. God is speaking. You shall be called Hephzibah. For the Lord delights in you. For as a bridegroom enjoys his bride, or rejoices, rejoice or enjoys, you can use either word. As a bridegroom enjoys, again, there's no central overtones in this. That's not what we're talking about when we relate it to God. God enjoys you. When I come before him, when you come before him, he doesn't go, oh no, bickle again. What do you want? You're repenting again of that same thing? Haven't we had that conversation a thousand times? What is it you don't understand about stop, bickle? That's not what he does. I come brokenhearted. I say, Lord, I did this, I did that. He goes, I see the cry of your heart. I love you. Come near me. Don't run from me. Run to me. If you know who I am, you will run to me. Now look at verse 6. I've set watchmen on your walls. They will never be silent, or never hold their peace. They'll cry day and night. Here's the point. I read Isaiah 62, 6. I preached that passage many times, telling intercessors to cry out night and day. I started always with verse 6. I never read verse 4 and 5. And for years, I led prayer meetings verse 6, crying out night and day to God, trying to get a bunch of young people to cry out night and day to God. Verse 6, I didn't know the secret to night and day prayer in verse 6 is understanding the heart of God, verse 4 and 5. If you get verse 4 and 5 into the hearts and into the songs of your singers, you will be able to sustain night and day prayer far better. I did not realize these were related. It was when I had this dream, it came together. And the Lord was saying to me, yes, you will do night and day prayer like I told you in 1983. That's verse 6. You will not be silent, but you will only be able to do it through the paradigm, or the perspective of the bridegroom God who enjoys you. Let's go to Roman numeral 5. It was one year later. I was at an all-night prayer meeting. Oh, I love this story. It was one of those prayer meetings that went from 10 o'clock till like 5 in the morning. This is a couple years before IHOP starts, three or four years before IHOP starts. I was pastoring a church, and we had a Friday night all-night prayer meeting. Did that for a year or two, or something like that. And on November 30th, it was midnight. I had been reading Song of Solomon, because, I mean, he told me to do that, you know, about eight years earlier. So I had been doing it, and I was enjoying the beauty of God. I really was. I was enjoying His desire for me. I was pretty, I was getting excited. I mean, if God is beautiful, and He likes you, and the beauty that He possesses, He imparts. Beloved, you have it made forever. It changes everything. Everything. And I was in the prayer room. I remember this vividly. I was just walking in this one little area, just walking back and forth. And because I was reading Song of Solomon, I just slipped out this sentence. I said, Jesus, You are beautiful. You are so beautiful. I just said it. Because I was reading Song of Solomon. And the Spirit of the Lord came on me like swoosh. I went, whoa. I didn't say whoa, but I just... That was intense. I mean, I don't get things like that very often. The power of God just came over my whole body. I'm going to try that again. I said, Jesus, You are so beautiful. Swoosh. I stopped. I go, that happened two times in a row. I've never done anything where something like that happened two times in a row. Jesus. I'm going to try it again. You are so beautiful. Just the Spirit of the Lord came over me. I mean, it was such this exhilarating feeling for just three, four, five seconds. Whoa. What is that? I say this for five straight hours. This sentence. I'm walking back and forth. No one in the prayer room. There's maybe 50 or 100 people there. I don't talk to anybody. I am having the greatest night of my life. No one knows it. I'm not manifesting outwardly. Nobody knows anything that's happening. I don't want anybody to talk to me. Nobody had me pray for them. I was so enjoying Jesus. I went, here it is, 3.30. Jesus, You are so beautiful. Swoosh. Oh, I love it. I go, I don't get why this is happening. Jesus. 4.25 in the morning. You are so beautiful. Oh, man. Why is this happening? This is strange. 5 o'clock comes. We all go home. I am so happy. I'm just so happy. Go to bed. 5 o'clock, you know, maybe get to sleep at 6. I wake up. Now, a couple hours earlier. 9 o'clock, I go back to that very same spot. Not that it has to be that spot, but I thought, hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. You know, I went right back there. I said, I'm going to try it again. I mean, I didn't tell anybody. Because I don't believe in going to the same spot. That's not how I think. And I don't even think that was important. But I went there anyway. I said, I go, what if it works again? I go, this is so weird. I go, Jesus, You are so beautiful. Oh, I went, oh my gosh. What is happening? Two more hours. I was so mystified. I didn't tell anybody. I said, this is bizarre. If you told me, I wouldn't believe it. So I wouldn't tell you. But I was aware. The Holy Spirit was saying, Mike, pay attention to the beauty of Jesus. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm paying attention. I really am. A week later, I get a letter in the mail. And a woman says, last Friday night, Saturday morning, November 30th, I had a very powerful dream about you. And in this dream, the Lord said, to tell me to tell you this in the dream, He's going to open up to you the revelation of the beauty of Jesus. He goes, last Saturday night was a very important morning, that Friday night, Saturday morning, because God was visiting you. She goes, I don't know if you understand it, but He was calling you to the subject of the beauty of God. He wants you to call the church. Not only me, I mean thousands, millions of you will do this. And I said, Lord, this is fantastic. Now here's the sad thing. This is 1996. It was back in 1983, 13 years earlier, God spoke audibly and said, do 24 hour prayer. And He gave me Psalm 27. I read it. This one thing, I gaze on your beauty. He was telling me to focus on the beauty of God, way back in 1993. But all I heard in 1983, I mean, all I heard was was 24 hour prayer. I didn't catch the gaze on His beauty part. I was so perplexed, and even bothered, challenged by 24 hour prayer. And it's like the Holy Spirit was saying, and I did not hear Him. Mike, that's not all I said. I said, gaze on His beauty. So it's 13 years later, and this night in November 1996, it dawns on me that the whole time He wanted me to focus on His beauty, but I missed it because I had no paradigm. I had no perspective. Nobody did I know talk about the beauty of Jesus. Nobody talked on these subjects. And I said, I lost 13 years. Why couldn't I figure this out? I mean, I even had the Hefzabah dream that God delights in you. He only delights in you because of how beautiful He is. One last story. I'll do this one brief, and you can get this, and I'm going to pray for you. You can get this story more if it touches you. On again, the Encountering Jesus, the 8 part series where I talk quite a bit on this one. Okay, now it's, a year goes by. Now, I already have Jesus the King. I mean, I have much to learn about Jesus the King. I don't mean I have it, but I believed in the God of power. You know, to win the lost, touch cities, provide money, heal the sick. I was into God of power. All of us were in the 70s. Everybody I knew, we were into the power. To win the harvest for the mission field, the great commission, we all believed in power. So that wasn't so confusing. The bridegroom, that was different. The bridegroom God throughout the 80s, but here it is in the 90s. The Lord is saying now, I did not know at the beginning. He says, there's yet one more. Focus. I want you to take up Jesus the Judge. Jesus the Judge. I'm going to skip several part A and B of this. I'm going to get right to paragraph, no, I'll get right to paragraph B. It was in September, early September 1997, I was in our prayer room. I'll just give this to you brief and then pray for you. But I want to at least give you a little deposit. Although Jesus the Judge isn't the main emphasis, but I believe it's critical to understanding the King and the bridegroom. That we understand the Judge at least somewhat. This was the most challenging of all. 1997 he began to say, focus on Jesus the Judge. I was in the prayer room and had my most dramatic experience awake I've ever had in my life. I was sitting there. On Wednesdays I would go to, usually go to daily prayer meetings for some years. But on Wednesdays I always had a real long one. It was a six hour prayer meeting from six in the morning until noon. So I had a long time to sit there. And I always look forward to Wednesday mornings. Because I had to, I could really unpack my heart. So I'm in the prayer room and I begin the Holy Spirit leads me, you can read paragraph B, to these three verses in the book of Revelation. Three verses. 2-7, 3-12, and 19-12. And I'm reading these verses, and these verses are about God revealing His name. In other words, God revealing new insights about God. And He was speaking to me, and the one that was the strongest was 3-12. He says, I'm going to write my name on you. Which means, I'm going to reveal what my heart is like. Because when God puts His name on you, that means He's showing you what He's like. Because His name and His heart are synonymous. When God says, I'm going to write my name on you, He's saying, I'm going to reveal my heart to you. But here's what happens. Now I'm wide awake. This is different than when I said, Jesus, You're beautiful. And I felt the, just that exhilarating power of the Spirit that one night in 1996. This is different. This is 1997. I'm sitting there, and all of a sudden, burning fire is all over my body. I don't know what's happening. I have fire all over. It is so hot. I'm going, I don't get what's happening. It's not hot in the room. And I feel wind around me everywhere. So I look at the air vents. I don't want to be a fool. All the air, no, no air vents. This goes on for two or three hours. Fire and wind. And I'm going, I don't know what's happening right now. I'm reading these three verses. Revelation, these three, you can just look at them. So the time is up. It's noon. I have to leave. I'm going, wow, I'm just a bit wobbly a little bit. You know, going, I've never been awake and had the fire of God and wind touching me. I mean, where I could feel wind. Never had something like this. A guy hands me a note. A guy named Terry Bennett. I didn't even really know Terry Bennett. Met him once and Terry Bennett wrote and he said, it's a guy that lives in Tennessee and he goes, I saw an angel pouring wind and fire on you. Well, okay. And he said, and he gave you these three verses. And he gave me the exact three verses that I had been on for six hours. And I said, I have never had anybody give me the exact three verses. I mean, the Bible's big. It's this thick. He said, the angel spoke three verses and he laid them out to me. He says, God's going to reveal his name to you. So I leave and I go, who's Terry Bennett? Wow. So I don't even talk about this experience. I just hide it in my heart and I go, I know one thing for sure. Those three verses in the book of Revelation, I'm going to take them very seriously. I'm going after these three verses. I mean, imagine having a supernatural manifestation and a guy on the other side of the room gives you the exact same three verses. I mean, Bob Jones did that with that Song of Solomon 8 way back in 1988. Song of Solomon 8, that happened once. But here are three verses I went, my goodness, I better pay attention. I go, God, what is it you're trying to tell me about yourself? What is it you want me to listen to? End of the story, final end of the story, top of page 13. It's two weeks later. I'll just finish with this story real fast and pray for you. It's two weeks later. It's Wednesday again, so I have that six-hour block. I love that six-hour block because I just, nobody can get to me. I'm in the prayer room, just me and the Lord, although there's other people, but we're all engaged in prayer. It happens again the second time, and it's only the other, the only other time it's ever happened. Just those two weeks, two times in September 97. Fire and wind comes on me. I go, this is happening again. Now, I'm a Bible man. I love the Word. There are so many goofy things that people claim that's in the Holy Spirit, and I don't believe most of them, just to be straightforward. Most of them are so hokey, and I've heard them for 35 years, and I go, whatever. Don't be so open-minded. Your brains fall out. Use a little discernment. Use the Bible. And so even when I have a dynamic experience, I normally don't tell anybody because it's not for me to tell people so they can go, wow, can I have that experience? That's not the point. It's God talking to me, or talking to you. It's about you and Him. It's not a trophy. It's not a story to tell. It's about Him trying to touch you in a deep way in your heart. So this fire and wind thing comes again. Again, that's the only two times it's ever happened in 40 years of walking with the Lord. Two times in September 1997. Went for hours. Two or three hours. Fire and wind. I said, it's happening again. Like two weeks ago, I go, I don't understand. But this time, I'm reading Isaiah 63. Now, beloved, Isaiah 63 is one of the most intense passages in the Bible about the second coming of Jesus. It's a description of Jesus at the time of His second coming. Now look at this. This is Jesus talking in this passage. It starts off. Jesus is marching. He's going to do this in the future, by the way. When He returns, He's going to march into Jerusalem and liberate the Jewish people from the oppression of the Gentile nations. I mean, that's a real fact of what's going to happen in the future. But Isaiah 63 is describing this. And Isaiah asks a question. He says, Who is this man coming from Edom with dyed garments from Basra? Who is this guy? He's glorious in His clothing, His apparel. He's traveling in the greatness of His strength. What Isaiah is saying is this. Who is this unusual man? He has red garments and He's marching up through Edom. By the way, that's modern-day Jordan. He's on His way to Jerusalem and why are His garments red? That's what Isaiah asks. Jesus speaks up and He answers Isaiah. He goes, I speak in righteousness. It's time for me to save the nation of Israel. That's what I'm about to do. Then Isaiah asks, verse 2, okay, I have a question. Why is your clothing red? Why are your garments like a man that's been in the winepress? Because in the ancient world, they'd put all their grapes in a winepress. You know, it'd be like a like a couple feet high of stone. They'd put all the grapes and they would get in and smash them. And then they'd make wine out of the grapes. But everyone that smashed them, the grapes would get all over their clothing and their clothing would be dyed with the color of the grapes. Isaiah said, why do you look like you're smashing grapes and your garment has red all over it? What is this? It looks like you're in a winepress. You're confusing me. Jesus answers. This is the second coming. He's describing. I have trodden the winepress alone and from the nations nobody is with me. For I have trodden the nations in my anger. I've trampled them in my fury. Listen, and their blood has sprinkled my garments because I'm bringing my judgment to the nations and I am destroying oppression from the earth and it's a bloody work for real. It's bloody. And the Lord said for the day of vengeance verse 4 is in my heart and the year of redemption, which means the second coming of Christ. So here's the description. Isaiah sees this man. He doesn't know who he is. It's Jesus. He sees him in the future at the second coming. He's marching up to Jerusalem and he's trampling all the wicked nations of the Antichrist and blood is everywhere and he's delivering the people from oppression. You can read this verse on your own. I realize most of you this is a new passage and it's like what on earth is that? It's about the second coming of the man you love. Jesus. You want to know this verse? Trust me. It's one of the most dynamic passages of the second coming in the whole Bible. So I begin to ask the Lord, verse 2, why is your clothing red? I'm asking what Isaiah. I go, I don't get it. I don't get what is happening here. Jesus, why is your clothing red? And the Lord says, because I'm treading the winepress, which means I'm judging the nations. But here was the key word. He said, I'm doing it alone. Nobody will stand with me. Nobody will. Of all the nations of the earth, there's not one government in the earth that will stand with me and agree with my judgments. All the kings of the earth say that I'm wrong so that I will judge the nations without their participation. They resist me. I'm going to do it anyway. So the Lord spoke to me and he said, will you agree with me? The kings of the earth won't. Will you agree with me when I come in judgment? Will you be against me or will you actually understand the purity and the love and the wisdom of what I'm doing? So I begin to weep. And I said, Lord, I will agree with you. I will agree. He says, nobody will stand with me. But he meant no king of the earth. He didn't mean no individual, but no king, no nation, no government. The wind and the fire of God is on me, just like it was two weeks earlier in September 97. The Lord answered, verse 2, number 2 here, the Lord says, you're going to be rejected. If you stand with me as the God of judgment, many people will be angry at you. Everyone likes the king. I mean, who doesn't like power? The bridegroom throws off some people. They go, ah, I don't want to do that heart-to-heart thing so intense. That's a little intense. The bridegroom doesn't offend them. It kind of bores them. But the judge is offensive. He said, will you stand with me? I said, yes. He goes, will you stand with me when I come in red? Because in Song of Solomon, Jesus wears white garments. I won't go into that. But I said, Jesus, I love the Jesus of dazzling white, the Jesus of beauty. And he says, but will you stand with the Jesus who walks in red? Will you stand with the Jesus who comes as judge? And I said, yes, I will, Lord. I will stand with whatever is true about you. And the fire of the Holy Spirit. And the wind, this dynamic for two to three hours, just like it was two weeks ago. Again, the only two times it's ever happened in my life. This Terry Bennett guy. I don't even know him. Again, I shook his hand once, but I don't know him. He taps me on the shoulder. Now this is two weeks later. He's the one that gave me the note two weeks earlier. But he handed the note to somebody else. But this time he comes up himself. He taps me on the shoulder. My eyes are closed. I've been closed for a couple hours. I'm saying, yes, Jesus, I will stand with you, the Jesus in red. And if blood is spilled, I will believe your leadership. I will trust your love. I will trust your wisdom. I don't care who's offended. I will not be offended to you. I love you, Jesus. And I was weeping, and he didn't want to bother me. And he said, he tapped me real gingerly. He goes, oh, because I was weeping and kind of shaking. I go, yeah, look at him. And here's this guy. Can I help you? He goes, I told him, but that angel I saw two weeks ago that poured wind and flame on you, he's there again. He goes, I've never seen this thing like two times in a row. If this is someone, he's there. You have wind and flame all over you. I go, go ahead. I didn't say yes or no. He goes, this is strange. But he's speaking. Because he gave me the three verses from the book of Revelation two weeks earlier. The exact same three verses that the Lord gave me. He goes, Jesus wants you to know, to study, Isaiah 63. He wants to visit you as the Jesus in red. And he wants to know, will you stand with him in red? I look at him, I just go away. No, I was shocked. Two times in a row. The three verses, the early September. The exact verse. He said, will you stand with the Jesus in red? Will you not be offended? Because he's putting a mantle or grace is what that means. He's going to anoint you, if you will stand for the Jesus who is a judge, he will anoint you and he will cause you to open the eyes of many people to see that the judge is a God of love and a God of wisdom. He's not the cruel God that the devil says he is. Will you stand with him? And I said, yes, just yes. And so he left away and just said yes. And we talked much more later. I just said, I can't even talk right now. I said, Jesus, I will stand before you. I will stand with you as the Jesus of red. Yes, you are the bridegroom God of beauty. Yes, you are the king of power. But you're the God that removes everything that hinders love. I will not be ashamed of you. I will not draw back. I don't care what men say. Bridegroom king and judge. The Bible says it. The spirit emphasizes it. And we will be faithful to the end by the grace of God. Amen. Let's stand. Amen. Now, I realize I went long tonight because these are kind of hard stories to kind of follow. I mean, they're real to me because they happened. But I, you know, they're new to you. So they go, wow, I'm just Hefzabah and beautiful and song of Solomon and 24 hour prayer. What? Like call home tonight. Mom says, hey, how was the meeting? Gee whiz. What are you talking about? Oh, man. Stories. Bridegroom king and judge. The Lord wants you to respond to this because I assure you this is in the word and the spirit is going to emphasize this. The question is, will you be a part of it? I want to call forth two groups of people to come up to pray for first. The Lord spoke to us very clearly for the last several years about the African Americans giving leadership in the worship movement in leading in worship and song under the anointing of the spirit on a global basis. He spoke that to us about African Americans and about the Hispanics having an anointing globally. I'm talking about to lead worship and I don't want to go into all of that right now. We did a little bit that a couple years ago. We shared a little bit, but there's a lot to say about this. I'm talking about a global leadership calling. And God has something very specific for those intercessors out of Asia, but we'll talk about that later. But I would like every singer, musician, prophetic messenger that's African American or African descent or Hispanic, Latino, if you're in the room, you're a singer, musician, wait a second although you probably already know you're going to say yes and you will agree to stand with Jesus as bridegroom, king and judge. I want you to come forward right now. You will stand with bridegroom, king and judge. Glory. I want to ask for an impartation of the spirit on you. African Americans or African descent. Maybe you're from Egypt. Just come and stand on these lines if you would. So you're not so close together. So we can have some people. I'm going to have people come and lay hands on you. I believe this is important. I'm going to give you a minute to get up here. God is calling the African Americans and the Hispanics to give leadership in worship, in the worship movement globally. There's many call to leadership, many streams, but there's a unique and a particular calling and the Lord has spoken to us at IHOP and other streams as well. We are supposed to get behind this. We're supposed to get under it and we're supposed to serve God's purpose in these two people groups in the earth. Because the key to the worship movement going to a whole other level globally is these two groups of people. But beloved, it's not just Jesus the King. Because when I talk to people about Jesus the King, mostly they end up with healing and money and that's all they talk about is healing and money. Jesus has more to do than give healing and money. He has much more He wants to say than making life easier and giving money. I like money. He gives me money. I'm going to tell you some stories in the next couple of days. I like it. But there's more. He wants you to talk about the bridegroom, to sing about the bridegroom, but not only, He wants to talk about you to sing about the God who will remove everything that hinders love and you will be unashamed and you will be bold because you've studied the word of God and you have clarity in your spirit. Now I want you to I'm going to lead you in a prayer. I'm still letting some more come down here. They're still walking. I'm going to lead you in a prayer. This is for, I want you to close your eyes so you're not distracted. Now I want you just to be talking to Him right now. This is not about I hop, you know, everybody's excited, yay, yay, yay. I don't want hoopla right now. I'm talking about you and Jesus saying yes to each other. Yes, Jesus. I will talk about you as king, and it's more than healing and money, and I love healing and money when God gives it. I really do. But it's more. You're king of the nations. I will study, I will search you out as the bridegroom God. Like Corey Russell spoke so well today, I'll turn off all this electronic stuff, and I won't spend so much time just goofing off. I will study the Bible. I will study the Bible. I will know who you are as bridegroom. Yes. I don't know you as bridegroom, but I want to. I want to have a heart like David. And yes, I won't draw back from the message of the Jesus in red. I don't get it Jesus, but I say yes. If it's in the Bible, I say yes to you. Talk to Him for a minute. I'm going to ask about a thousand others of you to come on up from anyone in the room. If you love Jesus, you're on the ministry team. I want you to come out. I want everybody with somebody laying hands on them. From all over the room, come on up right now. We're going to wait on the Lord for a few moments. But come on up and stand in front of Him. We're going to ask the Lord to do something. Beloved, there is something so precious in the African-American community of people who love Jesus that God has such designs to shake America through the worship, the heart of David. He has given this to you. And He wants you to walk in purity and in confidence of the God who's a bridegroom. He wants you. He wants you to be locked in to Jesus, bridegroom, king, and judge. I tell you what He's going to do to the church in Latin America, all over the Mexico and Central America, just everywhere. The Hispanic community of believers, the fervency, the passion. I'm not talking about soulishness right now. I'm talking about the anointing. There's a lot of soulishness out there. I'm talking about the spirit of revelation, sober reality with Jesus. I'm not talking about hype. Trying to get everybody jumping and dancing, although I love to jump and dance. I'm talking about more than that. I'm talking about touching God, not putting a show on. Father, I ask you, tell the Lord now, say, Lord, I want to flow in the spirit, not put a show on because I'm gifted. Tell Him that. Make a commitment to Him. You will be anointed. There is so much gifting in this standing up here right now. Many of you will touch nations of the earth. Don't buy into the pressure to the worship hype that's all over the world right now. Say, the true Holy Spirit Jesus exalting worship movement. That's what I commit to. The Holy Spirit, I ask you, come right now, mark them. God, I thank you for my brothers and sisters. I need them. There's a ceiling on the worship movement except you guys. Except you guys break out. We are all under a ceiling because God is waiting for you guys, the Lord had touched you, to break the ceiling off so that multitudes, the rest of us will enter into more. We can only go so far without you leading the way. The Holy Spirit, you can respond to the Lord any way that you want. Holy Spirit, come in power, I ask you right now. Come and mark these believers. I ask you for the heart of David. I ask you for the prophetic anointing. I ask you for the prophetic anointing right now to be released. I ask you for the spirit of revelation. Now I'm going to say over this group and the whole group, Hephzibah. Hephzibah. I break off shame. Hephzibah. I break off condemnation. Hephzibah. Forget yesterday. Push the lead on yesterday. God delights in you. God wants you to have confidence with Him right now. Forget yesterday. Forget literally last night. Push the lead on it. Walk away from it. Hephzibah. Hephzibah. He delights in you. He wants you to know it. He wants you to feel it. He wants you to sing it. He wants you to preach it. Prophesy it. Hephzibah. Lord, I ask you for the fire of the Holy Spirit. Lord, release your fire in this room right now. Bridegroom, King, and Judge. All three. My heart with your fire, your desire. Lord, release your presence right now in this room. Your manifest glory. Baptize my heart. He's marking some of you right now. Some of you can feel it. Some of you can't. But He's still marking you right now. He's taking your commitments very seriously right now. The things you're saying. I believe that I move you. So let me feel it. Let me feel it now. Baptize my heart with your fire. Desire. Command. Baptize my heart with your fire. Desire. Lord, release your glory right now. Release your fire, Lord. Release your fire, Lord, right now. Your presence. Fire. Fire. I believe I moved your heart. So let me feel it. What are you thinking when you look at me? Baptize my heart with your fire. Desire. Come on. Baptize my heart with your fire. Desire. Baptize my heart with your fire. I ask for all the iHeartStaff to come up and praise your glory. I ask the Lord to release the spirit of prophecy on them. I ask for a spirit of revelation, a spirit of prophecy, a manual of leadership. Sing it. Sing it, boys. Sing with your spirit. Sing with your understanding.