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The Gift of Prophecy
Brian Guerin

Brian Guerin (birth year unknown–present). Brian Guerin is an American pastor, author, and founder of Bridal Glory International and Ascend Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Raised in a non-religious home, he became a Christian in college after a profound spiritual experience he described as a divine encounter with a falcon, which ignited his pursuit of intimacy with God. Guerin serves as the senior leader of Ascend Church, where his preaching emphasizes a deep relationship with Jesus, the power of God’s presence, and preparing believers for Christ’s return. He founded Ascend Academy, a ministry school, and travels globally, speaking at conferences and on platforms like TBN and GOD-TV, often highlighting signs, wonders, and prophetic insights. His books, including God of Wonders: Experiencing God’s Voice Through Signs, Wonders, and Miracles, To Know Him: Discovering Experiential Intimacy with God, The Altar: Preparing for the Return of Jesus Christ, and Divine Encounter, focus on spiritual growth and encountering God. Known for sermons like “Mary’s at His Feet” and “The Secret Place,” he encourages distraction-free prayer and devotion, drawing from Scriptures like Luke 10:41–42 and Matthew 6:6. Guerin’s ministry seeks to draw the Church into closeness with Christ, which he calls the “highest prize in life.” He said, “Your heart can burn, and you still not know Him.”
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Brian Guerin emphasizes the significance of prophecy in the Christian life, encouraging believers to pursue a personal relationship with God and to be open to the gifts of the Spirit, particularly prophecy. He illustrates the importance of bearing fruit in one's life as a reflection of one's walk with the Lord, and he shares personal anecdotes to highlight the necessity of encouragement and edification within the church community. Guerin also addresses the misconceptions surrounding prophecy, advocating for a healthy approach that allows for growth and learning, while emphasizing that prophecy should be rooted in love and aimed at building up the church. He encourages the congregation to eagerly desire the gift of prophecy, assuring them that mistakes are part of the learning process, and ultimately, the goal is to glorify God and strengthen one another.
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Let's jump in, and then we'll pray, and I think we'll try it, see how it works. But most importantly, as I alluded to earlier, I just wanna make sure we're a people, number one, individual. How many of you know, first off, you as a person, and your walk with the Lord's very important, then your outer sphere, family, closest friends, whatever it may be, and then us as a house corporately, and so forth and so on. You know, I heard a man of God years ago I admire highly, a man of God, when he was young, said this. It impacted him greatly. He says, look, if you want to know kinda your weight in the kingdom, now this isn't the only gauge point, but this is one of them. If you wanna know your true weight in the kingdom, look behind you, and see what's following you. The Bible says, you'll know them by their fruit. Anybody can talk a good game. You know, I remember when Judah was young, I use this analogy often, he, for whatever reason, he just really got a gift to shoot basketball. I'm horrible, it's bad. I played baseball, but basketball is like, man, you know, if it goes, and I'm like, yeah, it's a miracle. It's funny, I would play pickup ball, I'll tell you this, with Judah, quite often, we'd find local parks, just Father, Son time, and I really have to encourage those post-born again. You know, if you're filled with Jesus, you just wanna see life on people, and so, a grace from the Lord, not in and of myself, but I'll have at times is, we'll be playing opponents, I'm with Judah, it's kids in the park, you know, whatever, and I care about them, you know, their call. I'm thinking about them, I don't care about winning really so much, Judah wants to win, and I don't blame him, he should, and that's good too, but I'm like, man, you've got a good shot. I'm sitting there encouraging my opponents to where they get so confident, they're like playing really good. I'm like, that's incredible. Man, that move, it's so, just elusive, like, you know, I'm sitting there just, and they're like, and Judah's like, quit, what are you doing? Let's beat them first, then, you know, I'm like, oh yeah, so, but I remember a young boy was, couldn't really shoot that good, and you know, at that young age, sometimes there's insecurities, and kids will say things, and whatever, from different places, and he was trying to critique Judah's shot. Judah being young, he knows better now, but being young, it kind of, words carry weight, you know, so the Bible says there's life and death in the tongue. But I could tell it landed, it stuck with him, bothered him a little bit, and I said, Judah, because Judah, really, I say this, not because I'm his dad, but I don't know why he just shoots the lights out. He always has, it seems like a fish in water, just sit there, wham, wham, and I said, Judah, because he's sitting there just shooting high, high percentage, three point, whatever, free throws, free throws, so I said, I asked Judah, I said, he was critiquing your shot, I said, so how well does he shoot? Judah's like, he's not good, and I'm like, that should say it all, you know what I mean? Meaning, you know people by their fruit, like you don't take a whole lot, and so often, a lot of people can talk a good game from the bank, but they've never been in the river, they don't know the current, they don't have anything following them, and so I want to encourage you, even in life, when people say things that may not be the most affirming, you know, sometimes, you're never trying to compare, Paul says in the epistles that it's foolishness to compare ourselves amongst ourselves, you never want to get into that game, but often, it can be freeing to know, like, you know what, they don't have any fruit on their tree, like, they're critiquing me, and it's encouraging to know, like, when we walk with the Lord, by default, if we do it in a good way, fruit happens, and it's just all the Lord, it's Him, and so, in that, we want to carry it in our own lives, and really embody it, you know, if you're, like, have children, you know, you never want to be that person that doesn't live what you say, they'll see through that pretty quickly, and that's why fruit won't stick, so you want to, again, you first, which is, die to you, love the Lord, and then that, your sphere around you, and even out from there, but as a church body, I want to make sure we're really just trying to follow the voice of the Lord always, staying biblical, staying super healthy, and embodying all that He wants for us, and one of the things amidst many in Scripture is prophecy, super big, and I'll be honest, out front, a lot of churches want to stay away from this, and I don't blame them, I get it, because it can get messy at times, but again, you don't come off of certain things just because circumstances can happen if they're biblical, you know what I mean? You go after the biblical things, and then pastor along the way, and lead, and guide, and it is what it is. How many of you have children, and sometimes you just won't always do it for them, because you know you can do it better, and they're not going to mess up and make a mistake? That's my leaning often, but sometimes you need to let them do it to learn, like Judah's getting older, I'm noticing, I'm starting to put him in situations, he was helping me work the other day, and I'll give him tools, and hey, I'll guide you, but you've got to feel it. Sometimes the best teacher in life is experience. Even the Bible, a lot of walking with the Lord is caught in following him. Discipleship can't even really be taught so much, he says, look, follow me. There's no even verses on training in prophecy. You can teach on it, but to legit prophesy, sometimes you guys kick the bird out of the nest, and just start, just flow with me. Healing the sick, there's no real training on it. Just being honest, if you look at the Bible, Jesus says, heal the sick. Okay, thanks Lord, how's that look? Just do it, just follow me, one day I may slap some mud in somebody's eyes, I may spit in another guy's eyes, I don't know, just follow me. Really, the life of following the Jesus is just following and learning, and you're like, ah, but however you know, in that model, often things can, you know, you can miss stuff, and that's what I would hope we would better embody more and more. You know, I wanna be in this thing for the long haul. But that we'd hopefully have a safe house that's like, man, we get it. We just are undergirded by all things for love for him, and love one for another. When that's real solid, and secure, and sound, man, mistakes happen, we get it. Even in prophecy, I love the New Testament prophetic, it's very different from the old. Very, very different. It's actually to be tested. It's not a thus saith the Lord, and if you miss it, you get stoned. It's actually, we see in here in part, and it's actually for the upbuilding, encouragement, strengthening of the church. It's a different model, same concept, different model. Not that you lose the other, there's still the office of the prophet and all this, and I don't wanna get too bogged down in teaching this morning. But I pray that we'd always be a people, simply put, going after the Lord, but a healthy greenhouse that allows for growth, and look, mistakes happen, that's okay, that's family, that's life, it's good. I mean, can you imagine, Jesus was a baby. You know what I mean? He grew through the entire thing. Like, he had his diaper changed, stuff like this. It was a mess, he dropped stuff. Probably not often, but as us. But it's the model of life, and how God does it, and I think it's beautiful if we can just kind of renew our mind to love that, you know, and be okay with it. But again, I get certain churches that are like, you know what, no, let's cut that out. But what I do wanna point out is, Bible's explicitly clear. Thessalonians says this, do not despise prophecy. So to despise it, meaning to know we're not doing that, is sin. And you wanna be careful not to go into the other ditch. You know, I wanna be Bible, I wanna be Jesus. And sometimes that takes growth, and we'll get there. But also, let's look at 1 Corinthians 14. And in a second, just to let you know how we'll hopefully make it work. It should be fun. We did this one night in our academy. It was really powerful, actually. So we've done a gift teaching one morning, if you remember, and we went after healings, more or less. More words of knowledge, which, if that flows this morning, too, we love it. But prophecy, that we're gonna kinda focus on this morning, pray the Holy Spirit just flow and give him room. You know, we wanna be, again, full in the Word, the Spirit, the Lord moving a healthy community, all for the Lord's glory. But I love, watch prophecy in 1 Corinthians 14. How many of you this morning, you'd love to be built up and strengthened, edified? This is what prophecy does, super healthy. Can people miss it in the process? Oh, yeah. How many of you have ever prophesied you missed it? Okay, praise God, welcome to the party, everyone. Except Jesus, really. I've been with some of the elites and watched them miss it. Everybody, it is what it is. And sometimes, you see in the New Testament, there's, I believe, a picture for it. You can know it's taught well of Agabus in the book of Acts. So real quick, with prophecy, there's the revelation that comes. But then, you have the interpretation. See, and this is where it starts to get, this is why you wanna test it. We see and hear in part. So the revelation comes. It's so clear in Scripture. And real quick, I'm trying not to get bogged down, I won't. So there's a strong camp in the body of Christ there typically fall under the umbrella of, or title of cessationist. It means they believe the gifts have ceased. Cessation to cease, gifts stopped. It's not biblical, it doesn't hold its weight, not gonna camp out there long, but it can be picked apart. You have to make it work. But the gifts clearly in Scripture never stopped. And so, in that, though, I forgot where I was going on that. I don't wanna get too bogged down in teaching, but here I go. What was I saying right before that? Yeah, Agabus, thank you so much. Agabus, Paul's, he says the Spirit told me to go to Jerusalem. Let's say that monitors Jerusalem. Paul's like, I'm going to Jerusalem. Spirit told me, I heard the Lord. Agabus, a known prophet, even I think his daughters, they're prophetic. They have a revelation. Oh yeah, this is what I was saying. With prophecy, the revelation comes, but then you have the interpretation, how you interpret what you got, and then the application, how it's then applied. Do you release it? Is it just, do you pray about it? How do you release it? When do you release it? I mean, there's a lot that goes into it. But again, how do you learn to ride a bike if you don't just get on the thing and start? And so we want to be healthy in this way, and tiptoe into it in love, high, high grace, mercy, and how I build it. Hopefully, I think it'll be a safe house, and I pray people are built up this morning. And what we want to do is edify spiritually, then edify physically in the potluck. But Agabus goes, he gets a revelation. He says, hey, it's believed that he had a dream that Paul was going to suffer in Jerusalem, which Paul already knew he was going anyway. But let's say he has a dream of Paul suffering hard persecution. So then his interpretation, it was like, don't go. And his application is, Paul, don't go to Jerusalem. But it was actually not accurate. Revelation's always accurate. If God really gives it, that's accurate. But our interpretation, how many of you ever miss that? Me, plenty. Welcome to the party. But if you don't get on the bike and just start with the training wheel, it's like, ah. But if we're a community, hopefully it's like, no worries, yep, but wow. That one thing you said meant so much. It's funny, Shereen will tell you, we were just praying, I don't know, maybe a week ago or something. And yeah, and I'm praying with Shereen and I see a picture and I'm like, I'll be honest with you. I didn't, I'm like, I don't know the interpretation for it. I don't know how I would apply this. But Shereen's sharp looking, I'll get nothing by her. So I said, amen. And she goes, what'd you see? She knew. She knew. I was like, dang it. So, cause sometimes if I'm honest too, I just, I'm like, man, I don't, I don't know how to apply this. But also if you get too overly concerned, then you'll just shut the gift down. The Bible says, don't despise it. You know, so you just want a healthy and that's what we want to be. Look, make mistakes. We love you. Let's go for it. If it's in love, and this is what I'm going to point out. It's really surrounded by first Corinthians 13. It's really the foundation of it all. And so I shared this picture with her. She's like, ah, this was a meaningful thing that happened. You know, it was awesome. And I was like, oh, well that helps. Cause I don't know, I remember, I love this one that just sticks out and I remember it. It's prophesying over a lady from the UK. Young lady, and I go, right when I lay hands on her, I see her jumping up and down on a trampoline. I'm like, what is this? You know, you're going to have a lot of ups and downs in life. Like, I don't know, you know, or you have to, I don't know how to. So I didn't have the interpretation. So I didn't know how to apply it. But at this time I just said what I saw. She goes, no way. I actually was going to be a professional trampolinist. And I'm like, I didn't even know they had such a thing. You know? So sometimes it's just the Lord confirming that. So that was a word of knowledge. Prophecy often is, is foresight. Even the origin of the word prophesy means pro, before, effet, tell, to tell beforehand. So sometimes even prophecy, you'll get it and it hasn't happened yet. So it doesn't make sense. We've seen this many, many times. And that's why, again, I would encourage you to eagerly desire, I'm going to go over it here in a second, to prophesy. And if we aren't eagerly desiring, that's an explicit command in scripture. One command is do not despise it or you're in sin. Another one is eagerly desire to prophesy. So if we're not eagerly desiring to prophesy, you can also get in sin, disobedience of the word. Not a salvation issue, but we, again, we want to be a people that are yielding to the word. And, but just sharing things sometimes. And I don't know if this makes sense to you, the delivery, there's a lot more you can teach on with it, but you can see it throughout the word of it being a safe place to release and what it does and edifies and builds up. So watch this, 1 Corinthians 14, verse one. Oh yeah, so what I was going to say is, sorry, it just came to me. Trying to rush to you. What I envision, again, if it works, awesome, if not, be gracious with us, please. But we did this one night with our students. We said, look, man, let's just go for it. Let the spirit of prophecy begin to flow. How many of you know, often, if you don't make a container ready for a certain aspect of the Lord, he's not going to pour anything into it. So when you say, you know what, Lord, I see this in the word. I see prophecies really on your heart. The baddest apostle in the land pens to eagerly desire this. Puts it up above, you know, most, even in the gifts. And so let's make a room. Come, Lord. And so we began to prophesy. Me and Zoe, actually, jumped on our online and started prophesying to our students online. And man, during graduation, we were hearing all kinds of stuff back. And we don't know, we're like, man. And we got in a little swirl, actually. It was pretty cool. We started seeing the same thing. The spirit of prophecy started to flow. So let's try this here in a second. I would love for students that have been with us, obviously, second year, first year. And we're gonna kind of try and make room. You can pack up on the stage behind me if you want, alter. Because I want everybody that wants prayer, prophecy, quick too, we're not gonna be long, because we got food waiting. But to release prophecy over you if you would like that. And then maybe me and Zoe, you can jump online again if you want people online. It'll be awesome. In a second, I'll let you know. I gotta figure out how to turn on the comments. But you could say your name, where you're from. And me and Zoe are just gonna pray and see what we get. Could be a lot of fun. Sometimes it's as simple as like the Lord's, I sense the Lord saying, stay with it. And to you, it's like that was, but to the person, like, wow, you had no idea. No idea how that built me up, edified me. I can go another million miles. Sometimes it doesn't have to be this crazy, like what's your blood type and address and all this. And if it is, awesome. But again, listen to what 1 Corinthians says that I think's really awesome and healthy. Pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, watch this, but especially that you may prophesy. Remember, we touched on this. So the Christian life is to pursue love. That's the goal, love. But on the way, desire the gifts. And then he kind of puts prophecy out there at another level. So I would encourage you even in life, you know, when you're in the market, whatever it is, and you got a good basket, to see people and desire to prophesy. Because you're like, oh, they're making that container ready. All of a sudden spirit of prophecy will start to flow. You just sent something for somebody, you know. We were in the grocery store one time and a precious lady, she was in front of us, me, Zoe, and Judah. And she said, y'all go ahead, because she was really, I guess, itching in her eyes or something, I guess it was spring or something like this. And she wanted us to go in front of her. And I was like, no, we're easy. She goes, no, please do. Because she was itching her eyes. I said, I tell you what, do you need prayer? I was more praying for whatever she was dealing with. She goes, that'd be great, really open. And begin to pray. Honestly, I didn't really see any notable healing in the moment. But again, to just speak a little bit of encouragement, prophetic, and sense over her life and her destiny. That wrecked her. She's like, hold on, really? You feel that way? And wait, are you a pastor or something? And I said, actually, I am. But, you know, and it just, what it will do in people's lives. You know, I'm noticing, Daniela, hey, how are you back here? Look, man, don't get around Daniela for long. She can't go anywhere. She's got this strong evangelistic thing from Brazil, but just so loves people. And it just flows, it just flows. And you'll wreck people's lives the more you make that container open. Just step here and there. And you can start in places like this where it's healthy and we get it. You're gonna make mistakes. And sometimes somebody will tell you something and you think they missed it. And then a week later, you're like, whoa, they were spot on. So be encouraged. And sometimes people miss it. And that's okay too. You know, I've had so many prophetic words that were way off. And I'm just like, man, that's amazing though that they tried and they're flowing. And I get it all the times I've missed it. So who cares? And that's okay too. But watch, it says, especially that you may prophesy for he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God, for no one understands him. However, in the spirit, he speaks mysteries, but he who speaks, sorry, he who prophesies speaks edification, watch these three words, and exhortation and comfort to men. So New Testament prophecy, it edifies, it upbuilds, it strengthens. That's another thing. And one thing is, oh, I'll keep reading. Verse four, he who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church. Watch verse five. I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied. For he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues. Watch this, unless indeed he interprets that the church may receive edification. So super important here, Paul's talking within the context of the church. Whoever prophesies is not more important than he who prays in tongues. He just meaning in a church setting, because it's more beneficial. See, he closes it within the church. So praying in tongues, we teach on that too, absolutely vital. I feel like you can't even fulfill the entire will of God if you don't speak in tongues and pray in tongues to edify yourself. But in a corporate setting like this, prophecy's so vital and more important, actually, because it edifies, it builds up. And so we're gonna make room here in a second to pray for you, and I would encourage you to get your iPhone, you're gonna be surprised, I'm telling you. I'm gonna first see who's on our prayer team for this week, but then get other students, and we'll just pack it up, make room for everybody, balcony too, but get your iPhone out to record, because I'm telling you, I know how the spirit will move, but also these amazing men and women of God in our academy, and they're really going after heaven. And ultimately, we'll get to the church body as well, but hopefully, but they may speak things that alter your history, change the trajectory of your life in God. One thing, it can upbuild and strengthen, or sometimes, like I said, it can be, look, God knows, he's proud of you. That's encouraging, that's upbuilding. But whoo, weeping, you have no idea. Some simple, doesn't have to be anything profound, but sometimes it is too. And a lot of times, it comes in pictures, you'll see me and Zoe, we just go for it, and again, a lot of our people know this, but I'm speaking again, I'm knowing throughout the earth online. Sometimes prophecy comes in the revelation, and then just doing your best to interpret it and apply it. You see Jeremiah 1, he said, the Lord asks Jeremiah, he says, what do you see? He said, I see an almond branch. He said, you've seen correctly, for I'm watching over my word to perform it. If you read further, he says, I see a boiling pot pouring out to the north, he goes, you're right, my judgment will be poured out to the north. Pictures, symbols, revelations full of them, Acts 10, Peter sees a sheep come down, unclean animals, there's symbols and things like this. So God will use it this way. But I want to point out, it's in pursuing love, and right before this chapter, it's the whole chapter of love, meaning if you prophesy and let the Spirit use you from love, it's safe. And if you miss it in the meantime, the only really way you see a false prophet truly applied in scripture is to unbelievers. In the New Testament, there's a lot of grace there and room to grow, but also prophesying from love, meaning there's no other agendas there, and that's what we want removed. There's sometimes people prophesy to get another Instagram story or something, like that's where you start towing the line and things can get blurry. Also prophesying from the soul, which we try not to do, but again, if it's in love and for edification, building up, encouraging. So that's what you'll get when we prophesy in a corporate setting. Now there's place for prophetic warning, correction, that's not this. Corporately, and you never saw the Lord do that. It was individual, you have relational leverage there, a lot goes on there. Because some people just misapply it, I would say, but in this house, in a healthy way, I'd be the first one to run up for prophecy because it's gonna be something that's edifying, encouraging for upbuilding, again, in a corporate church setting like this. And if you aren't left encouraged, just ditch it, really. People just, honestly, that's what I'm gonna do. Words are powerful, but to me, you start to learn if they're not from the Lord, they carry no weight. You're just like, okay, shelf that or ditch that, goes in one ear, out the other. My kids even know, they've been around with me for years, traveling, we hear a lot. And you get some stuff that's just interesting. And that's another thing the prophetic confirms. Sometimes it's just to confirm what you already heard the Lord telling you. And it's to reiterate and solidify, you know? So I wanna make room for that here in a second. We'll pray, and then maybe students, pack up the front, the stage, because then maybe we go row by row, quick too, we don't have to spend long, because again, we're gonna eat. And then maybe me and Zoe can just pick off people online and see where we're going. Maybe Mariah, if you don't mind, just holding a pad behind us and hold the atmosphere, it'd be good. And so that'll be good. So encouraging, upbuilding, strengthening, edifying. So how many of you this morning would love to be edified? They're not awesome, yeah. And so we wanna let the spirit prophecy begin to flow and online. And if somebody could help me, I forgot how to get my comments on this thing, so we can see people. Does anybody know YouTube well? What's that? What's that? I see it on there, but do you know how to... Live comments? Oh, live chat. Look, it sure ain't saving the day. So wow, okay. Oh, that's awesome. This is cool. I need to do this more often. I've seen all kind of good stuff, man. What's that? Oh, really? Where's that at? Sort by, they're popping in. Is that right? I know, just filter, and then live chat so that it's happening as you go. Okay, thank you so much. And so cool. Caleb, Caleb Seal's in here. Caleb too, bro, if you can hear me. You jump in too, man. He's gonna be third year student. He's gonna be moving here I think soon. But listen, I'm gonna just probably, people saw him with us recently. Caleb Seal, if you don't mind as well online, me and Zoe jumping in and just prophesy as you feel free and release that. So just wanna edify spiritually, bless you guys, see where it will go, and that'll be good. So let's pray first, and then we'll see where it will go. Is that okay with you guys? Again, I know sometimes this can get uncomfortable in a church setting, but I kind of feel like our people, we're all for it, don't care, and wanna do things biblically and bless people, and it can change lives forever. So Jesus, thank you for your word. Thank you for the moving of the spirit that you gave us, the gifts of the spirit, and that even through Paul, you wrote to especially desire prophecy, and that we would just yield ourself more and more to it, that we could help utilize this gift all by you, all by the spirit as he wills to strengthen, build, encourage, confirm the church, each and every one, I pray even now for the spirit of prophecy to begin to flow. Come Holy Spirit, we make room for you, a container to flow in this house, to help build your people, and Mariah, if you wanna go ahead and come, it'd be awesome, please, and online too, let the spirit of prophecy flow in Jesus' name, amen. Another quick thing, Revelation 19's a great one. It says the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. This is actually in context with an angel, and John bows to, it's in the context of a different setting, but I do love that verse. You can still look at it this way. That word testimony can also mean the evidence of, so meaning when true prophecy is in action, it's the evidence of Jesus there, but also, it doesn't mean that people that are prophesying are deep with the Lord. It just shows that only true prophecy can flow with Jesus, him being there, the evidence of him, isn't that awesome? You see in Matthew 7, all these preachers are like, we prophesied in your name, and he's like, I don't know you, so you can also tap into a gift apart from deep intimacy, and we love that full balance, that we first and foremost wanna know the Lord, but also flow in the gifts, so the evidence of Jesus often is even that prophecy's flowing in there, so let's do this. Students, if you don't, who's on the prayer team this week? If you could go ahead and stand. Do you guys mind coming up, maybe up here with me, if you don't mind, and maybe Benjamin and Ryan as well, if you guys don't mind coming. Oh, listen, isn't it cool? Anna comes through, look, Ryan and Anna newlyweds, got married, there we honor them, isn't that awesome? Y'all wanna maybe join us? Talk about the most beautiful babies on planet Earth. I love them, and maybe, yeah, Rachel, and are we kind of packing out yet? And you guys, you follow, Jenna, like, and just start to pack up the stage, and then we'll line up here in a second, and go row by row, thank you guys. Kind of full up here, okay, let's now, students, you know, anybody, y'all wanna come, Brandi, Sherilyn, Lena, let y'all start lining up front, Tracy, if you don't mind. If you want to, don't wanna put you, you have Veretta, come join us, love to just begin to speak encouragement in life. Anybody in the balcony wanna join us? Any students in the balcony? Awesome, amazing. So, Zoey, you wanna come help me? Look, Zoey, got a haircut, so beautiful. Look, man, it's like, so I cut it, come on now, give me a little grace. The other day, she's like, hey, Papa, I know you're busy, but when you have time, do you mind cutting my hair? Because since COVID, we just started it, yeah. And I'm like, babe, are you kidding me? It's the honor of my life, you know, I get the scissors, and I just do my best, and she's gracious with me, but proud of her. So, okay, yeah, maybe, Mariah, you can start with however you feel like, like a light pad, just host the atmosphere would be good. And let's start this way. If you want, again, I get your iPhones out in prayer. If you wanna start coming in balcony, I would start making your way down, we have plenty of seats you can fill to get in line. And I wanna invite you, even now, you can come for prayer, prophecy to be built up and edified, the moment it takes with a few people starting. And then also, if we can make room, Lena, do you mind making a little room on the stairs if you wanna come up? Thank you so much. Rodney, and then you can come up on the stage as well, if you want prophecy, bring your phone, get ready to hit the record button. I mean, just maybe the next 10, 15 minutes, we'll just release the word of the Lord. The Bilgers, if you guys wanna come, or you don't have to, no pressure, but just come on up and wrap around, see we have students all the way up the wall on stage, or begin to pray. Nathan, what's up, dude? How are you doing? Yeah, you can come on up, it's better on the stage. Benjamin, Rachel, you follow, Jenna. Come on, come all. All right, let's see what we got, babe. I'll give you the handheld. Check, check, check, check, yeah. Okay, so online, if you could tell us your name and where you're from. Okay, Lorianne from Florida. Lorianne, you wanna remember that one? Let's pray for Lorianne from Florida, right here. Okay, God, thank you for Lorianne. We bless her in Jesus' name, God. Right away, I just saw three steps, like stairs, like you would go up, and I feel like there's, maybe watch over the next three months for an elevation in what the Lord's calling you into by the Spirit. Also, the number three is the Spirit, quite often. And I thank you for an escalation, an elevation over Lorianne's life, and I see like a, it's like a sense of yellow light and a traffic light where things have seemed delayed and yielded and slow, but I pray for an escalation in the next three months. And I see olives, too, something to do with healing, healing flow. And also online, if these prophetic words apply to you, just take them by faith. Sometimes we can pick up on things that's going on corporately as well, but healing oil flow in your body in Jesus' name. You see anything, babe, for Lorianne? So immediately I saw a huge fishhook, and I don't know, maybe if they're good with evangelism or something. I don't know if they're good with just evangelism or something, or I don't know, but if that could mean anything else. If what? If that could mean anything else. Yeah, yeah, so God, thank you for the fishhook, even with Lorianne. A grace on evangelism and even possibly a prodigal, a lost loved one or a relative that you're gonna hook and bring in. That's so good. Summer from Gadsden, Alabama. Let's try that. Anyone else you see? God, thank you for Summer from Gadsden, Alabama. Yeah, I pray that there's something with, I don't know if you've been here or not, but I felt like a connection to over here, even if there's a deposit gonna happen with you taking short visits, I know we're close, but a deposit on Summer's life, even in visiting and being in person for some reason. And I see, I don't even know what you call them, a trowel for like spreading out, is it a spatula maybe? Like cake icing, to smooth out cake icing. There's something to do with, I believe, a smoothing out that's gonna lead to a celebration. So something to do, Summer from Gadsden, Alabama, where the paths have been crooked and the Lord's gonna make the way like a John the Baptist to pave the way of the Lord and make the crooked paths straight, smooth them out like the icing on a cake that's gonna lead to a celebration. God, pray that in Jesus' name. You got anything, babe? Yeah, so I saw like an orange folder and I immediately heard the word portfolio. I never used that word, but so I don't know if that person's just super organized and orderly or I don't know. Yeah, so good, orange too. Orange is normally diligence, persistence. So with Summer, so, so good in a portfolio. We bless that in Jesus' name. Let's see who else we got here. Vanessa from Brazil, awesome. God, thank you for, let's get Caleb next, okay? Caleb Peterson from California. Vanessa from Brazil. God, thank you for Vanessa. I bless her in the name of Jesus. I sense a well deep, deep within the earth. I believe you're a deep well of the spirit. There's such maturity on you in the things of God. And I've seen this before where he's wanting to pull out the things that are deep within you and have formed over the years and your maturity and your walk with the Lord and pull them out so they can be partaken of in the earth and drank in for the body of Christ. God, I thank you for increased opportunity to do that over Vanessa's life. In Jesus' name, I see, I've seen this before too, like a candy cane around Christmas that's like a shepherd's rod at the same time. Watch for the shepherding, guiding provision of the Lord in a greater way around Christmas. Watch that, Vanessa from Brazil. Go ahead babe, anything you see. So I saw like the top right corner of a doorframe. Like even if you look at this one, but it was at the bottom and I knew it was supposed to be at the top. So I don't know if it's like needs to be aligned or something. Oh, that's good, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we'll pray for Vanessa, like a realignment on doorways who are normally like opportunities. Transition from one place to another. So the divine alignment on an opportunity before you. God, thank you for what Zoe's seeing over Vanessa's life. A divine alignment over a transition from one place to another happening in Jesus' name. God, thank you for Kayla Peterson from California. Hopefully you guys can hear us online. Prophecies just flowing like a river. How are you doing? Good, so nice to see you. But Kayla Peterson from California, we bless you Kayla in the name of the Lord. We bless you in the name of the Lord. I just saw a clock with the hour hand on the number five. And then again on the minute hand on the number, sorry, five, five, like grace, grace, and something with grace on a journey with Kayla Peterson. God, I thank you for Zechariah four. Grace, grace, and a mountain being removed from something that's been holding you back. The mountain being cast into the sea right now over Kayla Peterson. And it shouts up grace, grace for the journey ahead. There's something with like an exponential grace, ease and favor. And like five, 10, five, 10 on the clock. It's time. It's time. You guys can come up on the stage if you'd like. Claudia, how are you doing? Love the hair. Anything for Kayla, babe? So this is super strange, but I saw a football helmet and the logo was for the Kansas City Chiefs. Oh, wow. And I knew it was the Chiefs was significant, like Indian Chiefs, but I don't know what that would connect to. For Kayla Peterson, so good. Wow. Yeah, so God, I thank you. Even something that could be, I'm normally reminded when I hear Kansas City, like that whole prayer thing, like something on Caleb's life with the deep place of prayer and cultivating a house of prayer in his own life, which I believe is probably prevalent in him being a chief, a leadership thing. In a helmet too, I think of salvation. I believe there's something on Caleb that's very full over you, Caleb. You're a very full expression of God in that you focus on the helmet of salvation, that evangelistic side of seeing people saved, but a leadership role upon your life as a chief, but also intercession and prayer, intimacy. We bless you with that in Jesus' name. Rosanna from Argentina. Awesome, God, thank you for Rosanna from Argentina. We bless Rosanna in the name of the Lord. I thank you for healing to flow. Be healed right now in Jesus' name and healing flow through you. I just sense healing. I don't know if you're dealing with anything or somebody in your family, but healing flow to you and through you. Begin to lay hands on the sick and watch them recover, Rosanna, a real ability for the oil of healing to flow through your hands in Jesus' name. And I see like a knitting together. I believe the Lord's knitting you in certain relationships with the body of Christ right now in a powerful way and beginning to bring together the fabric of your life in such a way that you don't see it just yet. The full picture and fabric has not been sewn together yet, but be faithful. Though my promise tarry, it shall surely come to pass. See anything, babe? Yeah, it's funny. Check, check, yeah. It's funny that you mentioned the knitting together. Yeah. Because I saw a stapler and I felt like she was like putting together. Oh, wow. I didn't know what, but yeah. Like a stapler, stapling something together. So good. Yeah, God, thank you for binding together your agreement in her life, blessing her with that in Jesus' name. And we'll maybe do one more and then close it in prayer to go eat and let them continue. We'll do one more. Any of them stick out to you, babe? Who? You wanna do that one? Herrick W. from Ohio. Yeah, no, that's awesome. Herrick, Herrick W. from Ohio. God, we thank you for Herrick from Ohio. And we bless him in Jesus' name. I see like coming around a right turn. I believe there's a transition coming that's gonna be correct and right. And you'll know at the time you need to turn. There's a right turn coming. It'll be a change in a decision, but also it will be correct and you will know that. And the Lord's grace will be upon you in Jesus' name. Anything, babe? This is hard to explain, but you know like when you have like an audio message and you see those audio things when you start talking, I just saw that. So I don't know if they're good with like sound or if they're good at hearing from the Lord more or something. So good, yeah, why don't you pray into that? That's so good. Lord, we pray over Herrick that whether they're good at sound or just hearing from you, that it would increase. And we pray that they would have ears to hear. It's something you prayed for that he who has ears to hear, let him hear. So we pray that they would have that spiritual hearing, but also their family. And we pray that they would be able to hear you just like a friend talks to a friend, which is so natural in Jesus' name. Amen, so good, thank you, Lord. Man, we could be here all day, this is amazing. Maybe one more. Look, Caleb's rocking on there, so good, yeah. Oh, wow, it's not caught up. Oh, maybe I'll put that arrow, there we go. Isaiah from Missouri, let's do Isaiah. Isaiah from Missouri, the Lord bless you in Jesus' name. God, thank you that there was something to do with deception that tried to come your way the Lord's removing and bringing a clean slate. God, thank you for something. Yeah, it tried to come in a twisted way to avert where the Lord was taking you, but it's being removed. And that which was not right or from the Lord is being removed to set up the trajectory of where you are going. I see like a trampoline where, where before it felt slow in coming, but it's like a bounce now. And because that deception was moved, you're gonna be able to jump forward in a greater way. And I see, I sense the spirit of truth in your inner parts. There's something in you that would desire truth all the days of your life with the Lord. The Lord looks down in Scripture and says, I desire truth in the innermost parts. And you're a man of truth, you speak the truth, you yield and adhere to truth. And that's why you will walk in freedom and everybody you get around, you just cause freedom because you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. God, I thank you that Isaiah is a mouthpiece. You're gonna use him to speak a life over individuals, both corporately and individually. There's something over your life, this leadership. You'll begin to speak and prophesy into this generation. There's impact on you for the younger generation, specifically, not exclusively, but specifically. I really feel authority on that. There's something to do with Isaiah. He's speaking a life powerfully in this next generation that's coming up. You'll see him blossom fast by the anointing and power of the spirit. In Jesus' name, anything for Isaiah? Yeah, so I saw inside a file cabinet and there were two on each side and in the middle there was one missing. And I saw it like another file inserted in that missing spot and it like clicked. And I felt like it was like a gift or something, like a spiritual gift that was missing. And also that it was five, like grace in order to do it. I don't know what gift it was. I pray into that. That's so good. So Lord, I pray for Isaiah and that gift that was missing. You and Isaiah know that whatever it is, I pray you insert it into his file cabinet, like his history he's had with you, that he would just have such a grace and it come naturally to where he can just flow into it, whether it's publicly or just his one-on-one time with you. And he have that intimacy in order to access it. In Jesus' name, amen. So good, so powerful, babe. It's like it started flowing a little more easy. Let's see if we can keep going. But I wanna pray, bless the food. We'll dismiss everyone. And Caleb, a letter-written tater chip online, bro, as long as you want. We bless you at home, across the world, we love you. And I'll use this mic, it's a little louder. Check, check, there we go. So I'm gonna bless the food and allow you all to be dismissed. You can continue to pray and prophesy as you fill up. But God, thank you for these amazing men and women of God. We bless them in Jesus' name and pray they'd be edified today, both spiritually and physically. We bless the food, we give you glory, Lord Jesus. Be pleased as you build your church. We love you, in Jesus' name, amen.
The Gift of Prophecy
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Brian Guerin (birth year unknown–present). Brian Guerin is an American pastor, author, and founder of Bridal Glory International and Ascend Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Raised in a non-religious home, he became a Christian in college after a profound spiritual experience he described as a divine encounter with a falcon, which ignited his pursuit of intimacy with God. Guerin serves as the senior leader of Ascend Church, where his preaching emphasizes a deep relationship with Jesus, the power of God’s presence, and preparing believers for Christ’s return. He founded Ascend Academy, a ministry school, and travels globally, speaking at conferences and on platforms like TBN and GOD-TV, often highlighting signs, wonders, and prophetic insights. His books, including God of Wonders: Experiencing God’s Voice Through Signs, Wonders, and Miracles, To Know Him: Discovering Experiential Intimacy with God, The Altar: Preparing for the Return of Jesus Christ, and Divine Encounter, focus on spiritual growth and encountering God. Known for sermons like “Mary’s at His Feet” and “The Secret Place,” he encourages distraction-free prayer and devotion, drawing from Scriptures like Luke 10:41–42 and Matthew 6:6. Guerin’s ministry seeks to draw the Church into closeness with Christ, which he calls the “highest prize in life.” He said, “Your heart can burn, and you still not know Him.”