This message was shared by Apostle Kathryn Krick Lead Pastor/ Apostle of 5F Church in Los Angeles, CA on August 31, 2025. Below is a word for word transcription of the message as if Apostle Kathryn is writing this to you. To watch the full video, scroll to the bottom of this post. We pray this teaching blesses you and equips you to walk as a powerful vessel of God.   

Jeremiah 29:11

“For I know the plans and thoughts that I have for you”, says the Lord, “plans for peace and well-being and not for disaster to give you a future and a hope.”

Jeremiah 29:11 TPT

Here’s what Yahweh says to you, “I know all about the marvelous destiny I have in store for you, a future planned out in detail. My intention is not to harm you but to surround you with peace and prosperity and to give you a beautiful future, glistening with hope.”

God’s plans for you are amazing, incredible, marvelous, beautiful, beyond your wildest dreams. This is the plan God has for you. For every single one of you. This is not just something nice to say. This is not just a familiar bible verse that most people know— but this is the word of God! This is the promise for your life, that God has such incredible and beautiful plans. Your future is glistening with hope. Your future is way better than your past, even though your past, by and large, maybe it has been beautiful, maybe it has not, but for some of you it has been amazing, it has been beautiful. Maybe for some of you it’s hard to imagine it could get better. But God’s plan is that it would get even better! Our God is a God who takes us glory to glory. That is our God! He is a God who rewards you when you obey Him.

The plans that God has for you are so amazing. First of all, this is what your future looks like— it looks like harvest coming from the seeds that you planted.

Galatians 6:9

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

If you do not give up, you for sure will reap a harvest. So, part of what your future looks like and part of why it’s so beautiful, is that there is a harvest coming that is currently not here. 

Sowing and reaping a harvest are totally opposite. The joy, the enjoying, the satisfaction, the beauty of the harvest is so different from the toil of the sowing and the “not seeing anything yet”, because you put the seed in the ground and it is not harvest time yet, so you see nothing. It’s so different. There is harvest ahead!

Some of you have been sowing in some area, some of you have been sowing in another area, some of you have been sowing in another area, maybe you are sowing in relationships in your family, you are sowing in your service to God, you are sowing in your relationship to God, you are sowing in the workplace, you are sowing in your studies, you are doing everything in your studies or in your job or as you pursue a business, whatever God is leading you to do with your job. You are putting in work, you are sowing seeds and you are going to reap a harvest some day. Some day that business is going to take off. Some day that promotion is going to come. Because you have been working with your whole heart as doing it for the Lord as worship.

God is calling you to sow in all these different areas. So if you are sowing in all these different areas, guess what that means? Not just one harvest is coming up in the future! Not just one glorious harvest, but a lot of harvests are coming up!

When you first surrender to God, it is a whole lot of sowing and no reaping yet. It’s a whole lot of sowing and many believers stop short. They give up. The verse says, you reap a harvest, if you do not give up. But many believers give into the temptation of the enemy. The enemy doesn’t want you to reap. The enemy doesn’t want you to experience the abundant life that God has for you, because when you start experiencing abundant life, that is when you shine the brightest. That is when you have conquered the devil and your eyes are fully open to see how good God is.

Our life is a journey of our eyes opening up more and more to see the goodness of God. I am telling you, once you taste more of the goodness, once you taste a promise being fulfilled, it’s a way your eyes open up like you can’t experience and the devil can’t fool you anymore. So he can work hard sometimes in the sowing seasons. And many believers, they give up. Many believers stop short before they see the harvest. And they are missing out on the glorious abundant life that God has for them. 

The plans God has for you are so great, because you are going to see harvest upon harvest. You are going to see desires of your heart being fulfilled, that is going to be part of the reaping from your sowing. And the more you serve God day after day, the more God can entrust you with more responsibility for His kingdom, more influence for His kingdom, more anointing. And that all translates to being used even more powerfully by God to touch people. And there’s no joy like that in the world! Walking in your purpose and seeing lives changed, be brought closer to Jesus, eyes opened up to His love, set free and healed— there is no greater joy! That is in the future! That’s what is to come!

Also what’s to come in the future is transformation to be more like Jesus. And that is the ultimate joy. The more you are transformed into the image of God, the devil can’t lie to you any more, because you fully have the mind of Christ. You think like Jesus! You see like Jesus! You feel like Jesus! You act like Jesus! And when that happens, no doors are being opened to the devil and you are just soaring in the protection of God, the peace of God, the abundant life of God. You are soaring! 

That’s the greatest joy to be transformed into the image of God more. You don’t worry about anything. I was thinking about today, how much more peaceful my life has become, just by being transformed more into the image of God, by going through trials and allowing God to mold me through the trials. The big thing is getting more faith and getting all the selfishness out.

I was thinking, when attacks used to come, persecution used to come, I would feel the feelings of worry and stress. It was like, “Ugh, this is horrible to have to go through.” But now, I don’t fear the future. When persecution happens, it doesn’t rattle me. Because my faith has grown— I have grown to be more like God, to be like Jesus— in terms of faith and selflessness. “Okay, well this persecution that happens, means that I’m thrown in the pit instead of stepping into the promised land yet, well that’s okay. Because the promised land is coming in God’s perfect timing. God is going to do something purposeful in this pit.”  Situations like this. 

Before it was like, “I’m in the pit, this is awful. I thought we were going to the promised land.” Now it’s just peaceful, because the selfishness is gone. It’s just like, “God, have your way. I just want God’s will, so whether it’s the pit or the promised land, that’s where I want to be if that is God’s timing. Pit or promised land, I want to be in God’s will only, so that is the only place I’m happy.” 

That is not immediate. That comes as you continually obey God and walk in surrender. Every day you do that, He literally transforms you to be more like Him. And one day you will wake up like me and be like, “Wow, the world is more beautiful. There is nothing to worry about. I have nothing but peace and joy. This life is so beautiful.” It’s not overnight though. This is the future you have to believe in and obey God every day until you get there. You can have peace and joy always, but I’m saying, the future that’s ahead is beyond what you can imagine. I’m telling you, I’m in awe of the life that I am living; of the plans God has for my life. They are better than my plans. God’s plans have been and are way better than my plans.

I had plans. I had dreams. God had different dreams and different plans. And I am so glad, so relieved, I chose God’s plans and dreams over mine. Because they are so much better! They equal so much more peace, joy and contentment. They equal so much more transformation to be more like Jesus. And they equal walking in purpose and changing the world and being a mighty vessel of God. That’s what God’s plans and dreams equal. There is no way that you are going to have the exact plan and dream as God in every area of your life. There’s going to be times where God will confound you and say, “This way instead.” But I’m telling you, it’s better. It’s so much better.

One thing I have learned with God is that we think we know best.

We don’t. We really don’t.

You think, your dreams and plans are the best. You think that this has to be it. You have to do this. This is where you will experience contentment and joy.

But you won’t. Only in God’s dreams and plans does that happen!

You know, there is so much that I have had to sacrifice and I continue to sacrifice now. I have had to sacrifice my dreams. I wanted to be married and have children by my mid twenties. I’m approaching 35 now. And I had to give up my timeline for those dreams— and that was my biggest dream. Never could I imagine, since that was my biggest dream, that living without that dream would be better than what I imagined the joy I would experience in that dream. 

I have learned that we think we know what we want—but we don’t! You think you know what you want—but you don’t.

Now, delight in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart (Psalms 37:4). There are many things that come from God that He wants you to desire and He will give it to you. But there’s other things that you are very stubborn about in your heart that you want, that actually isn’t God’s plan, or the timeline is far from God’s timeline. 

This takes humility, by the way. This takes real humility, to take a chance on God’s plans and dreams and give up yours. But I encourage you to do it. It is the best decision you’ll ever make, to surrender fully to God and just trust Him. Adopt His dreams. Adopt His plans. Put yours aside. You can trust Him. He knows best for your life! He knows the plans He has for you! The intricate details, He knows. 

James 1:12

God will bless you—He will give you such a great future, He will give you so many blessings upon your life—if you don’t give up when your faith is being tested. He will reward you with a glorious life, just as He rewards everyone who loves Him.

God rewards everyone who loves Him. 

There’s a lot of believers who say they love God, but are not showing their love to God with actions. That’s what tells it all. That’s what God counts as, “Do you love me?” 

Like Jesus said to Peter, “Do you love me?” 

“Yes!”

“Then feed my sheep! If you love me, you will do this action.” (John 21:15-17)

Delight in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart (Psalms 37:4). When you delight in the Lord, He will then give you the desires of your heart.

Not all Christians delight in the Lord, meaning, go after His heart. But many read His word, sing praises to God, attend church, serve in the church, talk about God, but don’t delight in the Lord. And they are missing out on the abundant life. 

I’m telling you that I am living an abundant life that I could never imagine, of such peace and such joy. Dreams fulfilled, desires of my heart fulfilled! This abundant life is in every area of my life, every section of life, part of life. But so much of this abundant life and desires of my heart fulfilled didn’t come immediately. The peace of Jesus, the joy that comes with intimacy with God, that came immediately. Hallelujah. But the desires of my heart and abundant life in every area did not come immediately. For me it took four and a half years, after I surrendered to Jesus fully and received my calling and started walking in my calling. And then after the four and a half years, all the sudden, it was harvest. All of a sudden I started seeing that all the seeds that I sowed brought forth a harvest— it’s like there was a harvest one day and then there was a harvest of different fruit the next day, glory to God, and there was a harvest of fruit the next day. 

God counts every seed! Every seed must produce a harvest!

Imagine if you obey God every single day for years. That doesn’t just equal one day of harvest. It’s harvest every day because you keep on sowing to God. In the beginning it’s sowing, sowing, sowing. Nothing, nothing, nothing. God stretches you. God tests you. God will really stretch you, sometimes for years, not seeing any harvest— but then the harvest comes and it never stops!

That’s what I experienced with this revival breaking out. My heart burned for revival. My heart burned for people to experience God’s power. And for four and a half years it was just very small. A handful would come to our church and we would see God move in power from time to time, but not deliverance and healing and impartation of anointing happening like now. Not like that, but we would see the prophetic touch people. Sometimes people would fall back with God’s power. Sometimes people would be baptized in the Holy Spirit. But it was just a couple. 

And now it’s literally every day, we are living in revival! Literally every day there’s testimonies flooding in that bring a smile to my face and cause me to just have to praise God and thank God. Every single day I’m seeing people be touched by God’s power and God do miracles in their life. But it was four and a half years of not really seeing any of that, hardly, and hungering for it. Hungering. Hungering.

Now it’s every day for years. And God adds more. The harvest gets bigger. The fields expand of the fruits, glory to God. The anointing increases. God opens up more doors. Hallelujah.

I feel this burden in my heart with this word today, because what tends to happen so often when people look at ministers with the anointing and when people look at anybody with any kind of success, they put them on a pedestal. I’m not even talking about worship. But I mean, they separate themselves from them, meaning, “I can’t have that. They just have a special favor on their life. But I can’t have that.” They don’t make that connection. Ministers who carry the anointing and even just general success is to be an example, an inspiration for you. It’s to be able to see, “Look this is what’s possible when you give your life fully to Jesus. This is what’s possible if you do not get weary in doing good and you do not give up. You will reap a harvest.” This can happen in your life too.

I feel the love of God for every single one of you. I’m telling you, I feel this so strongly in my heart that God’s speaking this, that He has such amazing plans for every single one of you. That what He did in my life would happen in your life— not in the exact same way but that you would have this same testimony that I just shared, that you are experiencing abundant life in every area. That you are experiencing the desires of your heart being fulfilled. That you are experiencing dreams come true, and even better, God’s dreams that you didn’t even want but are finding more joy in those dreams than the joy you’d imagined you’d have with your dreams. That you would see a continual harvest in your life, that you would see yourself transformed more into the image of God. That you would see God use you mightily in the anointing. I believe with all of my heart that this is God’s plan for your life, for you to have this same testimony that I just shared. 

There was a time when I was lukewarm, there was a time when I was pursuing being a singer, there was a time when I didn’t have much money and I needed to rely on my parents. They graciously helped me financially for years. There was a time I didn’t know what to do with my life. There was a time I was trying so many things, going to college for communications, trying all these different pursuits as a career and not finding what my purpose was. There was a time I was convinced my calling was to be a singer, for a year and a half, and things were going well, but not actual success, just the music video and the songs came out good. But there was a time where I looked nothing like I do now, where my life looked nothing like it does now. I just share that because if you are not experiencing abundant life in every area, if you are not experiencing the desires of your heart being fulfilled yet, I was once there. 

God wants to do what He’s done in my life in your life. I feel the love of God, the urgency of God for you to know this word right now. 

When you surrender your whole life to Jesus and accept Him in all of His ways, this is like the biggest secret in the world, the supernatural life that God will give you. When you surrender your whole life to Jesus, the supernatural protection, the supernatural peace that doesn’t make sense, in every circumstance, the supernatural joy, the supernatural financial blessings, the supernatural doors that God opens, the supernatural ways He transforms you, He gives you gifts you never even had before, the supernatural ways He gives you success for His glory, the supernatural way He builds such beauty and love in relationships you can never imagine to have. This is the biggest secret, the world doesn’t know, many believers don’t know. Many believers are not surrendering everything, you have to surrender everything. 

You have to actually delight in the Lord. Delight, and then He gives you the desire of your heart. 

Love the Lord, actually love Him. 

Disobedience is not loving Him. 

Having pride is not loving Him. 

Surrendering 99% is not loving Him. 

We are called to love Him with all our heart, all our mind, all our strength, that’s love. 

We’re not called to like God a lot. We’re called to love Him. A husband and wife, they are not called to like each other a lot are they? They’re called to love. The groom lays down his life for her. The bride submits herself to him. That’s love. 

There is one big thing I want people to know if they ever see my life, if they ever see how I’m blessed and experiencing revival and the anointing and everything, it’s not random, it’s not by chance, it’s not because I’m lucky, it’s not because I have extra special favor I was born with or something, it’s not like winning the lottery, there’s a reason: because I love God. I made the decision to love God with my life, with my obedience, with my surrender, with humility. 

One big thing I want the world to know, I want people to know, is that you can have this too. Many are called, few are chosen, few want to surrender though. I urge you to surrender. It is worth it. But, you have to believe, because it doesn’t feel like it’s worth it at first when you’re sowing and sowing and sowing and not seeing the reward yet. You have to believe God, and you have to choose to deny yourself, deny your selfish desires. 

We can define loving God by faith, obedience, and humility.

James 1:6

But when you ask you must believe and not doubt, (when you ask God for something,) because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.  

We learned about faith last week. Are you valuing faith? Are you seeing how important faith is? When you doubt, that person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. So a lot of people, a lot of Christians are missing out on abundant life. They are not receiving the supernatural life that God has planned for them because they are doubting. God goes by principle. When you love Him, He pours out all these blessings, He rewards, He releases abundant life. When you choose to not really love Him by choosing to doubt— yes it’s a choice, you do not have to accept the feelings sent by the devil. I’m telling you these thoughts of doubt are from the devil! 

The same way the devil came to Adam and Eve, trying to make them doubt God’s love for them and the plans He has for their life. When you have thoughts of doubt you need to be on guard and be serious, “Uh huh devil, I love God. I love Him by having faith and not doubting. So get out of my mind. I will not accept any doubt, I’m choosing to believe. I’ve made that covenant with God that I will love Him, and that means having faith and not doubting.” 

Some of you need to take this more seriously, you’re thinking doing drugs, swearing, and sleeping around are the “big sins.” But according to this scripture, God won’t release these blessings to you simply because you doubt. You need to see doubting as a sin, not so that you would feel condemnation, but conviction so that you could grow up spiritually and take it more seriously this spiritual warfare that you’re called to: to be on guard in your mind for “the devil roars around like a lion seeking whom he can devour” (1 Peter 5:8) the Bible says. 

So be on guard for thoughts of doubt. Do not allow yourself to meditate on thoughts of doubt! Do not allow yourself to speak words of doubt! You can do it! I’m telling you, you can shut up! You can bite your tongue! You can do it! You need to know, God’s letting you know, you have Christ in you! You can do anything. 

I’m telling you, I thank God for the grace that He gave me to have this revelation early on when I first received the calling from God, and a lot of it has to do with my spiritual father. Just seeing how my spiritual father spoke, he just exhibited such big faith and it just taught me so much in my interactions with him just talking to him. It just taught me so much, how he wouldn’t baby me, but he would just speak about God’s glorious plans for my life, and these plans for revival and that they must happen and he never seemed worried about anything when the church was getting smaller and I would share that with him. Just his example taught me so much and I felt so convicted like, “Oh, this is really important that I have faith. Oh, this is really important that I don’t speak words of doubt.” I thank God for that grace to have that revelation early on. I don’t ever remember really speaking words of doubt, maybe there were some, but just in my memory I don’t remember speaking words of doubt through those four and a half years when our church got smaller and smaller. 

There was a time when the church shrunk from twenty something people, down to fifteen, down to ten, down to five each year until 2020 COVID hit and we had to have church outside. Then I was ministering in the park, many times there were just the two of us, Jeanntal and I. There was one time where Jeanntal, Marisa, and I were serving, and we were outside, it was over 100 degrees in September, it gets hot this time of year in LA, we went out in the park and there was one person that showed up, I don’t know if she planned to be there or was just in the park but she was there, and I was preaching to her and in the middle of the message she got up and left. This was after four and a half years of sowing and sowing and seeing the opposite of harvest. And I turned to the livestream at that moment and I kept going. 

I remember feeling discouraged after that. But, when I told my spiritual father about it, I didn’t speak words of doubt. I never spoke words ever like, “Are you sure this is working? Are you sure this is what God said?” Because he as my spiritual father would direct, would have prophetic direction as he is the one that spoke, “revival is now.” God would speak through him, and so it’s looking like it‘s not working but not one time would I question the word of God that came through him. Not one time would I question the word of God that was spoken over my life and was spoken over the nation, the city, and this ministry of revival: that revival is now and revival is breaking out. Not one time. There were many opportunities I could have spoken words of doubt, but God had convicted me: that’s not love, that’s not obedience—to speak words of doubt. To speak words of doubt is saying, “God I don’t believe you, I know better.” You need to take it more seriously if you want this abundant life. You can do it, I’m telling you it’s not that hard, just try it. It leads to more peace and joy, and promises being fulfilled. So it’s the best thing you can do. 

Psalm 19:14

May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. 

This is what you should carry in your heart always. Whenever you find a mountain, speak to the mountain. I’m telling you when you are where the anointing is, when you are where God’s power is, you are planted, and you are not opening up doors to the enemy, you have to be healed, you have to be freed, you have to experience peace and joy. The devil can’t win. Some people over complicate things with their doubt. They’re doubting and they’re over complicating things. They’re saying well maybe I’m the exception, something’s not working, and as they’re doing that, it’s opening up doors to the devil, rather than defeating the devil. It’s making the mountain bigger in front of you instead of speaking to the mountain. 

Whenever you find attacks of the enemy, try God on this, speak to the mountain and see it move. Maybe it’s not immediately, but keep speaking it and you will see it will move. You need to have faith in the revelation that is released where you’re planted, the teachings, you need to have faith that these are really words of God, these are really principles of God. When I apply them, they have to work. It is very simple. God is good. God wants me healed and freed. God has principles and I am in line with His principles, and therefore the devil can have no hold on me. Therefore any attack coming my way, the devil must flee as I reject him. I must have peace, joy, protection, and contentment period. That’s faith. Test God in that and watch how your life changes. Start taking this principle of faith seriously.

If you’ve struggled with doubt, the message The Power of Positive Believing several times, meditate on it. I shared last week about the principle of faith, and how to have a big faith. 

God’s love can be defined by faith and also obedience. 

John 14:15

If you love me, (Jesus says), keep my commands. 

This shows us that to love God is to obey Him. If you are knowingly not obeying God, you’re not loving Him. Okay maybe that sounds heavy, but I’m being real with you. You need to take obedience more seriously. This has been a big problem in the church, not taking obedience to God seriously. Treating Christianity as a culture, as something to do, as something fun to do that makes you feel good, rather than laying down your life and picking up your cross and being a true disciple— which is what Jesus says. I’m sharing with you how to have abundant life, this life that I’m talking about. I’m sharing with you how to have God’s BEST, His plans, His beautiful plans. 

There are many Christian’s who are living an OK life because they are not opening up massive doors to the devil and God goes by principle and God has grace. There are a lot of Christians having an OK life, a mediocre life, a much better life than a life in the world, but they’re far from God’s best. They’re not living this kind of life that I’ve experienced that’s possible. This is what God wants for you.

“If you love me, keep my commands.” (John 14:15). What are some of His commands? Resist the devil (James 4:7). Take every thought captive (2 Corinthians 10:5). If you love God then whenever the devil is lying, whether it’s a symptom, whether it’s a thought, love God in that moment by obeying His command as it says in the word: “Submit to Christ, resist the devil, and he must flee” (James 4:7) “Take every thought captive and make it obedient to the knowledge of Christ.” (2 Corinthians 10:5).

Doing that is loving God. Doing that again and again as many times as you have to, is leading to God rewarding you and pouring out so many blessings because you love Him, you actually love Him. 

The Bible says, “Whatever is good, lovely, admirable, worthy of praise, think of such things.” (Philippians 4:8) You have the choice of where you will put your mind. Will you put your mind on all the things going wrong in your life, on all the ways the devil is attacking you, on all the negativity, or will you love God and obey His command and put your mind on whatever is good, admirable, lovely, worthy of praise. That is loving God when you do that.

“Be strong and courageous.” (Joshua 1:9). That’s an action, that’s a choice. So when you’re feeling, when you’re feeling fearful, you have the choice to reject those feelings and lies, and be strong and courageous, and do what God is calling you to do. When you do that, you’re loving God, and that will lead to so much reward. 

So many times in the Bible it says “Just believe. Believe. Believe.” Again and again, God instructs us to believe, just simply believe. When you believe, you’re loving God. You’re obeying His commands. 

Another thing that defines God’s love is humility. This is where a lot of people miss it. A lot of people prefer to hear the angel of light, more than they prefer to hear God’s voice. The angel of light is the devil. The Bible says “the devil masquerades himself as an angel of light.” (2 Corinthians 11:14). There’s a way to hear God’s voice, the main way God speaks is through His word, through the written word– The Bible, but also through the spoken rhema word– the word that comes through teachings of true anointed servants of God. 

It says in Ephesians 4:11-16 that “God poured out gifts to the church, these gifts were apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, and the purpose of these gifts are to equip the believers for works of service,” so that they can be who God called them to be: they can carry anointing and be powerful vessels of God. But you have to be equipped first to not be a baby, but to grow spiritually, to have the spiritual eyesight to see and know the devil’s schemes, and know how to have victory over the devil. So according to the word, in Ephesians, this is New Testament, the way that equipping happens, the way of equipping in the spiritual realm, including how to hear God’s voice, comes from the five fold ministry; not just pastors, evangelists, and teachers, but apostles and prophets. 

Ephesians 2:20 says that “apostles and prophets are the foundation of the church.” If you don’t have a foundation, that’s why there’s a lot of problems, right? 

So many people they don't even know how to read the word of God because they haven’t been properly equipped by a true anointed servant of God. True anointed teaching opens up spiritual eyes. True anointed teaching awakens your spirit man, opens the eyes of your spirit man, gives you understanding, gives you wisdom, gives you an impartation of spiritual knowledge, wisdom, and discernment. Now you read the word of God and you can have this proper new wine revelation rather than an old wine revelation, wrong revelation— whatever kind of wrong doctrine you had. 

So, there are a lot of people that have been so led astray by the angel of light. In the church today, this is one of the biggest reasons why believers are not walking in the abundant life that I’m talking about. It is because they are being led astray by the angel of light—things that sound godly, the devil puffing them up to think they are so spiritual, they hear from God so amazingly—because we have to be like children to enter in the kingdom of God. 

So when people become believers, the devil is smarter than you think, he’s been around for awhile, and this is all he thinks about is how to keep people from the fullness of God: from the kingdom. So, he knows better than to tempt people with things of the world in their past life for the most part. When you become a believer for the most part, people don’t want the things of the past anymore, they don’t want to do these sins of the past, and so the big way the devil strategically comes is as an angel of light, sounding like God, coming in the mind sometimes coming in visions. The devil can send signs too, and dreams. So he can come seeming spiritual, but it’s not God. That’s the big way that the devil comes in believers lives today. 

How you can be protected from that, from never being deceived by the devil masquerading himself as an angel of light, is following God’s principles that He has set up as I shared in Ephesians 4 of how to be equipped, to be mature spiritually, to be planted in a true church where God’s power is really moving, where the leaders are truly called by God, truly anointed, and the Bible says you’ll know them by their fruits. 

So, God doesn’t make it difficult to find a true church, where true anointed servants of God are, you just have to look at the fruit and test the fruits. Fruits are the testimonies that people are actually being saved, healed, delivered, and transformed. And, the fruits of the character of the servant of God, of the leader, that they exhibit the fruits of the Holy Spirit, the character of Christ. 

So many people have been puffed up with pride by the devil masquerading himself as an angel of light. It’s a scheme of the devil to try to keep people from really hearing God’s voice, because you can’t love God if you’re not following His voice. 

John 10:20

for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

Jesus is saying if they are ever persecuted and have to stand before a trial or anything like that, He’s saying that it won’t be you speaking, but God will be speaking through you. Not 90% God, God will be speaking through you, He says this to the apostles. 

Matthew 10:41

If you receive a prophet as one who speaks for God, you will be given the same reward as a prophet. And if you receive righteous people because of their righteousness, you will be given a reward like theirs.

Another translation says “you will be given a prophets reward.” This is the New Testament, Matthew. Jesus is saying, “you should be receiving prophets as one who speaks from God, as one who God is speaking through.

This could be said for apostles too, that carry prophetic anointing. This principle, doctrine, has been so lost in the body of Christ for the most part because we have, by and large, not seen apostles and prophets. But true apostles and prophets, God speaks through and you have to humble yourself to hear the word of God coming through them, coming through your leader. 

There will be times where you don’t understand, where you think differently because the devil masquerades himself as the angel of light, speaking the opposite in your past wrong doctrine, or if you’re struggling with humility, he can easily be speaking many things that are contradicting the word of God, contradicting what the word of God is speaking through your leader.

We will always be confounded and not understand God's ways but we don’t need to understand God’s ways to obey them. Do you think Mary fully understood how she was going to give birth to the Messiah? But she said, “let it be done to me as you have said to me for I am a servant of the Lord” (Luke 1:38) childlike heart, obedience. She didn’t question. She didn’t say “I have a different idea in mind. I think God’s saying this actually. Because I had all these beautiful dreams, dreams for my future and I would literally have them in dreams and visions and I know that it was God that spoke these things for my future. So angel, maybe you’re an illusion”. That’s what pride does. You reject the voice of God when He so graciously spoke directly to you through a servant of God. 

One of the big keys of how I’ve experienced this abundant life is by continually humbling myself to know that I don’t know it all, humbling myself to see my position as Elisha and not Elijah, not on the same level as my Elijah. Positioning myself as Timothy rather than Paul, not putting myself on the same level as Paul, knowing my place. 

And I’ve experienced the Holy Spirit speaking to me so much, directly to me as I read the word, Him speaking directly to me. This is not in an audible voice, not in a big shocking way, but as a still small voice. I’ve experienced that so much, God speaking directly to me without any vessel, without my spiritual father, but that revelation and word of God coming to me has come from me humbling myself continually to hear God's voice through my spiritual father, to this day, still hearing God’s voice through my spiritual father, not being prideful and thinking, “Oh I’m good now. Look at the fruits in my ministry and everything. I’m good now. I don’t need to ask questions anymore. I don’t need to be corrected anymore”. Heck no! May I always humble myself and never put myself on the same level as my spiritual father when it comes to hearing God’s voice. 

He is a true prophet of God! When he speaks something, it is God speaking. There are times I haven’t understood it but I’m so glad I obeyed without understanding. It is why I have seen this abundant life, fruits, revival! So many people miss this. 

I feel the heart of God wanting you to grasp this principle. This is new wine, wanting you to humble yourself to be corrected because the devil is very deceptive. I’m telling you, he’s very deceptive. If you have pride, if you have a little pride in you, he can easily deceive you, I’m telling you. When you will humble yourself every day, you will never be deceived. God directs the steps of the righteous (Psalms 37:23). Righteous means humble. 

The disciples when they cast out demons, they came back to Jesus, they said, “Wow, we cast out demons!” This was the first time they cast out demons and Jesus says, “I praise you Father for hiding these things from those who are prideful and know it alls and only revealing to only the humble and childlike” (Matthew 11:25). 

Your spiritual eyes will be opened. Your spiritual ears will be opened. You will have total, 100% perfect discernment to never be deceived by the devil—when and only when you humble yourself. 

My heart burns. My heart burns for you, for the people in the body of Christ to grasp this message because I know how much God wants to bless you with an abundant life. You could be self sabotaging yourself from the glorious plans that God has for you by not humbling yourself to hear God’s word through your leader.

2 Chronicles 20:20 

So they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper.

Believe in the Lord your God and you shall be established. 

Remember I said there are a lot of believers that are having good lives, but not God’s best. You shall be established when you believe in God. Established means begin. You shall begin your life with God. But if you want to prosper, believe His prophets. 

I’m prospering, because I’ve humbled myself to hear the word of God through a true prophet. 

This is how we prosper. 

Acts 2:42-43, 46 

They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. 

This is our example in the books of Acts of what believers are supposed to look like. 

This looks like a joyous life. This looks like a life in revival. They are constantly being in awe and wonder of the signs and wonders being performed by the apostles. They have glad and sincere hearts. They are praising God and they are enjoying the favor of all people! They are enjoying the supernatural life coming upon their lives in every area. 

On top of that, the Lord increased revival and it kept increasing! 

Let’s go back though. They were experiencing all of this, not just randomly but because Acts 2:42, they DEVOTED themselves to the apostles teaching. Not, they devoted themselves to hearing God's voice, however they wanted to hear God's voice. Not, they devoted themselves to seeking after signs, visions, dreams, hearing God in the most exciting ways. God speaks through all of those things, don't get me wrong, but the main way God speaks is in a still small voice through the word of God and through the word of God coming forth in the teachings of true anointed leaders. 

It is more rare that God comes in dreams and signs. He still will, but the foundation has to be the word of God, the word of God written and spoken. That’s where you should be seeking and then the other things sometimes will come, in God's timing, the other ways God speaks, in the earthquake, wind, and fire but we have to be seeking after the still, small voice. The still small voice is God’s main way of speaking to us. It’s not as flashy. It doesn’t sound as impressive as this “vision God gave me, the audible voice”. 

A lot of people like to seem spiritually important and brag of these flashy ways God spoke to them. That’s the intention. That’s how the devil has deceived them, coming as an angel of light. But the word says, they devoted themselves to the apostles' teachings. They devoted themselves and that's how they grew spiritually, in wisdom, in discernment. That’s how they grew to be victorious over the devil. That’s how they grew in the knowledge of the principles of God. 

Some words, we don’t really think about the meaning of them, because they are a part of our language. 

Let’s define devoted. This is what Google says when I was searching devoted. 

Devoted describes someone or something that is characterized by deep loyalty, affection, and commitment to a person, cause, or belief. It signifies a strong dedication, where one is willing to prioritize their act of devotion, showing their willingness to sacrifice their own needs to support it. 

Willing to sacrifice their own desires. Willing to sacrifice their own ways of wanting to hear God or what they think God is saying but actually it’s the devil masquerading himself as the angel of light. 

The believers were DEVOTED to the apostles teachings. 

That’s a powerful key right there in the word of God of how to prosper, have abundant life, be used mightily by God. 

I’m telling you, you’re growing. You can’t expect God to speak all these things to you and have no need for correction or growth. You need to know there’s a devil out there who comes in deceiving ways, masquerading as an angel of light. You have to be prepared to be confounded, to be corrected. You have to be prepared for sometimes you think God is saying something, but actually He’s saying something different. 

Has anyone been 100% perfectly right about hearing God’s voice here? No. 

Has anyone never experienced being deceived by the devil, like you thought God was saying something but He really wasn’t. Maybe you thought it was someone you were supposed to marry or something. Something like that? You’ve all experienced that? 

You have to remember that you’re growing. You have to remember that there are going to be times where you thought God said something but He’s saying something different. You have to humble yourself to that possibility so you can actually grow, rather than being continually deceived by the enemy masquerading himself as an angel of light. 

I urge you to value the words of God in His word and spoken teachings. 

I come to you not on my own. I come to you not “feeling like”. When a prophet says something, it’s God speaking. A prophet doesn’t “feel like”. The apostles walk in the prophetic. 

My spiritual father is a prophet. There is so much I’ve received from him and continue to receive every day, spiritual direction, any questions I have, sometimes issues in some of your lives. He sees as a prophet. Some of the direction I gave many of my spiritual children has come from a prophet but they don’t know it, and they dismiss it. 

I urge you to humble yourself and value the gift that God has given you, that we can hear His voice clearly. 

Ever since I’ve walked in my calling, I’ve become a spiritual daughter under my spiritual father, Prophet GeorDavie, I’ve walked in God's will. I remember there were times I had to be corrected. I remember one time early on, I didn’t obey God quick enough. My spiritual father directed something and I didn’t do it quickly and my spiritual father could see prophetically. I’ll never forget the anger of God, the “come on, this is important, you obey me quickly” came upon me. But God's grace was there, no condemnation, glory to God because I knew not to be deceived by that but I got on my knees and I wept before God. 

I’m telling you, I’ve walked in God's will for all these years now. I say that with humility. I say that humbly, having my spiritual father as a prophet and not doing things my own way, not doing things thinking I know better sometimes but being so careful to be in the will of God and to obey God every day. 

I want to encourage you all to value what you have here, to devote yourselves to the teachings, to not take the word, the prophetic direction, if you ever have questions to not take the prophetic direction lightly. But devote yourselves to the teachings, as they did in the book of acts. Devote. Set aside your own feelings and ambitions. 

Are you ready for God’s best for your life? 

I’m telling you, you will be shocked as things unfold. When you start to see the harvest time, when you start to see the reaping time, you will be shocked. You’ll become completely blown away.

I urge everyone to surrender everything to Jesus. I urge all of you to search your hearts right now. Search your hearts. Where has there been disobedience? Where has there been pride? Where has there been an ounce that wasn’t surrendered? Is there something in your life where you think you know best and you are being resistant to hearing God’s voice? Is there an area in your life where that is the case? 

I urge you to seek your heart right now and I want to invite you all to repent whatever you need to repent. Whatever you haven’t surrendered totally to God, to surrender totally. 

Tell God that you want His best, that you want His plans completely, His dreams. I urge you to surrender your dreams, to say, “Lord if your dreams aren’t completely my dreams, if you’re calling me to lay down a dream or more and adopt yours instead, I want to do that Lord”. 

Just speak to God from your heart right now. 

I urge you to step into the glorious future that God has for you! A life of heaven on earth. A life of abundance upon abundance. 

Step into it now!

Leave the just good enough life and step into the abundant life now! 

I pray that spiritual eyes would open up right now. I pray that any way the devil is trying to deceive you, any way the devil is trying to deceive coming as an angel of light, any way the devil is trying to blind you, I declare that would go from you now and your eyes would open up, in Jesus name. 

I declare nothing can keep you from God’s plans. Nothing can keep you from God’s beautiful, perfect plans in your life, in Jesus name. 

May there be chosen ones here! Everyone, may you be chosen, may you choose to be chosen!