This is an excerpt of the message, “Prepared to Receive Prophecy,” that was shared by Apostle Kathryn Krick, Lead Pastor/Apostle of 5F Church in Los Angeles, CA, on September 29, 2025. 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.

When you receive a prophecy, oftentimes you don’t want it. It doesn’t make sense, and you can’t understand or perceive the beauty and the power of it. This plan that God is revealing for your life—it’s hard to perceive why it’s a good thing or why it’s the right thing. This is how it was with Moses. He thought, “This doesn’t make sense at all. I don’t speak well. Why are you calling me to do this? I don’t see how this can be a good thing or a right thing.” 

Mary also couldn’t understand in the moment the eternal impact and the eternal value of receiving her prophecy: “The Messiah is coming, and you’re going to birth Him.” Maybe she could understand, “The Messiah is coming.” But do you think Mary could have understood, in that moment as a teen girl, the impact her obedience would have into the future, in 2025? When the angel appeared to her and spoke that, do you think she could see all of this? 

When Mary hears this word, imagine, the first things coming to her mind are, “How will people understand this? How will people believe me when I say an angel appeared to me? When I tell them that this happened, that the belly is here, because the Holy Spirit came and made me pregnant?” And she has this humble upbringing. It’s not like her parents are the church leaders of the day. Here’s this humble young teen, saying, “An angel appeared to me and made me pregnant, and I’m carrying the Messiah.”

Meanwhile, the Pharisees, the church leaders of the time, aren't saying, “It’s true. We had dreams. God spoke to us audibly. What this girl says is true.” That wasn’t happening. So just imagine the thoughts that would go through Mary’s mind as the angel is speaking to her. At the forefront of her mind are the bad parts of the prophecy, which are not even bad parts because God works out everything for good. But she could probably comprehend 0.0001% or less of the eternal impact of her obedience. If she could see what we see now, back in that moment, she would have been doing jumping jacks, every day, all day! She would have been saying, “Hallelujah! You chose me? God! How favored am I?” 

I relate to that so much. I relate to Mary, and I relate to Moses. Because like Moses, I considered public speaking my biggest fear and weakness. It was actually the only fear I had. It was the only thing that made me really nervous. I was really brave for other things, like sky diving, cliff jumping, or traveling across the world on a cruise ship during a semester abroad when I didn’t know anybody. I also drove across the country by myself to move to Los Angeles. I was brave. But the one thing that made me afraid, that made me go brain-dead, was when I would give a class presentation or speak in public.

I heard so many sermons over the years, and every time I heard a sermon, I was amazed at the preachers. I put them on a pedestal. I just couldn’t see how they could do what they did. I was not somebody who thought, “I got a good revelation, I want to go live and preach on this.” That thought never came to me. I was never someone in a Bible study that said, “Oh, I have to share this revelation with you.” I never considered myself to really have revelation. I considered myself the most average Christian when it came to spiritual maturity, to understandinging spiritual things, and to my relationship with God. I didn’t feel like I heard from God well compared to other people, especially because I didn’t hear the audible voice of God and I didn’t have visions. 

My now-spiritual father Prophet GeorDavie prophesied that God was calling me to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, and He was calling me to reach the nations. When I heard that, I was shocked. The first thing I thought was, “How can this be because public speaking is my biggest fear and weakness, and I don’t understand how people even have revelation to give sermons and to be so on fire when they preach? I don’t get how that could be me.” The next thing that went through my mind was, “What about my music?” In fact, when he was prophesying, I thought, “Here it comes. I am so excited to receive this confirmation of my music dream.” Because it was the one thing that I felt I had heard so clearly from God about: that I was supposed to be a Christian pop EDM singer-songwriter. After he had prophesied, I was waiting. In my heart I thought, “Is there more?” 

But when receiving the prophecy, the next thing I thought was, “I know this is God.” So there was a lot going on in my mind at one time. I had this knowing that it was God, and I had the thought, “How can I do this? I’m not good at talking.” Then God reminded me of Moses, and this Scripture came to my mind: when Moses said to God, “If you please, my Lord, send someone else!” (Exodus 4:13). So I knew, in that moment, that God was telling me, “I’m telling you now what I told Moses. This is really me, and I’m calling you to just trust me and obey me.” 

At that point in my life, nine months prior, I had surrendered everything to God for the first time in my life. I had surrendered even my dreams and my plans, and I really meant it with all my heart. That had prepared me for this moment to receive the prophecy. So when I received this prophecy and I had this knowing that it was truly God speaking, I wanted to be in God’s will more than anything else. For me, there was no other option. I had to please God. I had to touch His heart. I had to be in His will. I had to, even if that meant doing something I didn’t want to do. I knew, “I must be in His will.” That was my greatest desire, so I immediately accepted the prophecy. I knew, “I must receive this, because I must be in God’s will.” And I trusted that God would give me a passion for what He had called me to do. 

But I still thought there would be more music in my life. At first, I thought that maybe it would be 50 percent preaching and ministering as an apostle and 50 percent singing. All this to say, when I first received that prophecy, I didn’t really like it. I didn’t despise it because I trusted God. I trusted that what He was calling me to, He would give me a heart to do. But I wasn’t that excited about the prophecy, because not 1 percent of me wanted to preach. Not 1 percent of me wanted to be a pastor and lead a group of people. I didn’t know how to lead people. I had always been the one that followed, not led, with group projects. I had never said, “I’ll step up.” I didn’t want to do that. It was not a strength for me, and it didn’t look fun to me.

So how are you going to be excited about something that you don’t want to do and that you can’t picture yourself liking to do? God gave me the grace to know His heart, to trust him. And I was able to be humble in that moment. I knew God was speaking a big prophecy to me, even though I didn’t want it. It humbled me. It made me feel the love of God deeply, that He would want to use me in this way, like Mary and like Moses. 

So when the prophetic word comes, it’s often not something we want when we hear it, but it’s so good and it’s so perfect. Do you think Moses could have comprehended the eternal value and impact of him obeying that word from God? No. For generations, there was this promise from God that the people of God would go to the Promised Land, and now he was the one to do it. He was the one to raise up Joshua and impart his anointing to him, so that Joshua could lead the people to the Promised Land. For generations, people had been praying to be delivered out of Egypt. They were slaves. Moses was chosen to be their leader and lead them to freedom. Do you think Moses could comprehend this impact—the power of his act of obedience to obey this prophetic word that he didn’t understand? 

I relate to that, too. Because if I could have seen all that God has done on the other side of my obedience to the prophetic word—if I could have seen what I see now, these uncountable testimonies of people being delivered and healed, set on fire, receiving impartation, lives changed around the world coming to Jesus—if I could have seen that the day that I heard that prophecy, I don’t know if I would have slept for months. I don’t know if a smile would have ever left my face for a half a second. I don’t know if I would have ever stopped crying. 

The prophetic word comes from God, not from man. 

2 Peter 1:20-21

Above all, you must realize that no prophecy in Scripture ever came from the prophet’s own understanding, or from human initiative. No, those prophets were moved by the Holy Spirit, and they spoke from God. 

Every prophetic word that’s a true prophetic word comes from God. Which means that the word that is prophesied to you is nothing but good; it’s nothing but perfect. The word that comes to you is leading you into God’s will. 

Where else are you going to go? Where else do you want to go but God’s will? Anywhere else is hell. Anywhere else is not peace, joy, and contentment. Anywhere else is not pleasing God. Anywhere else is not fulfilling your purpose. Anywhere else is not leading people to Jesus. Where else do you want to go but God’s will? 

That is how powerful the prophetic word is. The prophetic word brings you into God’s will. It leads you into God’s will. You just have to obey. You don’t have to understand first. You just have to obey.