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A Graham Cooke Prophesy for Vineyard
From the Approaching the Heart of God
conference April 27-28, 2007
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Tidbits
Prophecy as far as our faith allows. It is important to do this.
Presumption is better than unbelief. God wants to push us into greater
areas of faith. To be able to do that, we have to be close to the
edge. He is building our faith.
God sees our potential; He speaks to that potential. He wants us
to know
Opening Prayer
Father I thank you. I thank you for who you are. Thank you for
your name. thank you for your nature, thank you for your goodness;
thank you for your kindness; thank you for your mercy. Thank you
for your generosity towards us. Thank you for your peace, your joy,
your love, your rest. Thank you for your intentionality towards
each one of us.
And now lets just be still for a moment; lets just be still.
Thank you Lord.
Thank you Father.
Thank you Lord. There is just a work that I want to release into
this building, into this church. It does not matter whether you
go to this church; this same word is for you. So I want you just
to put everything down, close your eyes and just open your heart.
There are promises that God has for us. So, thank you. Thank you.
Thank you Father.
Thank you Lord
Thank you.
What I sense in this house is a season of preparation. When I was
here a year ago our whole concept ended with that you could make
5 years growth within 12 months, and that was just to get us on
track; where we should be. And I want to say that that is ongoing;
that divine acceleration is on going. And you, if you are a visitor
here, and if you are a part of this house, that divine acceleration
is continuing, and God says “yes” to the speed of your
movement. This is a time when you can go as far and as fast as you
want to go, because there are no restrictions. Because within your
own capacity to say “Yes”, that is your journey. And
the Lord gently challenges your heart - “Take me at my word.
Run with me. Run with me.” He challenges you to be outrageous
in your believing. Not to think it through from a logical perspective,
but to access this next season through dreaming, through your imagination.
And He invites you to sit in His presence and daydream with Him.
Come into that place of creative imagining with the Holy Spirit.
And let your heart become loose before God, and dream and ask for
something bigger than you. But, you have to go there and receive
it. So the Lord says “ask me for things that are right now
beyond you.” This is what that means: “Ask me for your
family; ask me for family members who need to be restored to the
kingdom. Ask me, ask me for sons and daughters, ask me for brothers
and sisters, ask me for cousins, ask me for parents, uncles and
aunts. And the Lord says you can ask me for your best friend. Yeah,
the Lord says you can ask me, even for your best friends. Ask me
for the prodigals; ask me for miracles in relationships.”
And the Father says that “all of the low places of your life
will be lifted up in this season.” What does that mean? So
the Father is saying whatever low place you have in your life, whether
it is physical - ask the Lord to lift it up into health, healing
and wholeness. If it is emotional, ask the Lord for it to be lifted
up. Some of you have been subject to illnesses that have been depressing
and debilitating. The lord says “ask me, I will put you back
into your right mind. Ask me. I will reorder your emotional state.
Ask me. I am going to restore the low places; I am going to build
up the low places of your life. If you have low self-esteem, I am
going to give you massive dose of confidence. You get the picture?
Ask me.” What are the low places in your life right now? Who’s
got jobs on minimum wage now? Who has a low rate of pay right now?
Okay, so you can ask the Lord for an increase. Don’t be asking
the boss, be asking the Lord for an increase. For, if you are in
a low financial state right now, ask the Lord. The promise of God
on you right now – is that “I am going to build up the
low places now.” This church will be a church that builds
up the low places – Economically, physically, mentally, emotionally,
financially, spiritually. You are going to build up the low places,
even relationally, even areas of faith and unbelief. This will be
a community, coming out of this house, that will build up the low
places, not just in the pre-Christian community, not just the kingdom
of God’s people. You will build up the low places. You have
an anointing. It is resident within this building. Because this
building, this place, this church, this company are going to travel
in a high point of faith. There is a faith increase that is coming
incrementally over this next season that God is going to add faith
tot faith to faith to faith to faith. And what He is saying is “step
out beyond anything you have done and I will meet you. But you must
step out and meet me. Don’t expect me to come right where
you are. I will park myself in front of you and I will say ‘come’.
Just like I said ‘come’ to Peter on the lake. And when
he said ‘can I walk on this water?’, I gave him permission.
I am giving you permission. ‘Take me at my word’ And
you will see miracle after miracle after miracle after miracle after
miracle after miracle after miracle (x 10) take place until miracles
become commonplace in your midst. Until miracles become no big deal.
Just like they are in heaven. No big deal; no big deal.” No
big deal for God to do something big.
And don’t just confine yourself to this city or this community.
Because there will go from out of this community there will grow
out of this place, there will go groups of people and thousands
of people into the nations and you will take the anointing that
is on this house and you will go and spread it in places where it
is not even a the third world countries, it doesn’t even qualify
as a developing country, it will be that bad. God will send you
places and the only way you can do the work of the Lord is through
miracles. And you will go to those places where there is no food
and you will pray for food and food will come. And you will pray
for people’s food cupboard that is bare and it will be full
of food, and you will pray for water supply and you will pray for
the ground and crops will grow, where no rain has fallen. You will
pray for rain and rain will come. You will pray for prosperity and
prosperity will come. You will walk around territory, and you will
proclaim “this land will be fruitful” because there
are miracles that need to happen, economically, but they will happen
through the land. And you will pray for livestock and they will
reproduce. And the Lord says to you, whatever you touch, whatever
you desire in those places will happen because you are inhabiting
a house of plenty. So you will take that plenty out into the earth.
And what I sense here in this place is like seven (7) years of plenty
coming into this house. Where over the next 7 years the Lord will
begin to prosper you spiritually, prosper you economically. He will
prosper your families and there will be a spirit of prosperity upon
you that will cause a widespread coming to the Lord in this region.
And the favor of the Lord will come out of this house, to the extent
where you will give this building away, because God will give you
another; because the anointing upon you is immeasurably bigger than
your current place of relationship in God. And, so you are going
to see God working in this place in a huge way. You are going to
see the Lord at work; you are going to see the miraculous; you are
going to see an open Heaven and you are going to have times, and
days and seasons when God shows up in particular ways. You are going
to see diseases - almost like God has this month’s special
is leukemia. It will be like that. You will know - we are attacking
this disease right now, in this season, and you will send out word
into the community for anybody who has this disease to come because
we are going to soak you in prayer.
And this house will be a house of extended worship. And we have
already released something in worship in this place, but it is going
to grow and it is going to increase. And God is bringing people
to us who are already in advance of where we are going. We are going
to see ministries relocating here, into this city, and into this
place and into this church. And God is saying that you are not destined
to be small. So there is numerical growth, which will be out of
all proportion to what you can see right now. The hand of the Lord
is going to be upon you here. And, guys, a word of warning here.
You need to have and develop an extraordinary humility. Because
things are going to happen here beyond your imagination. And it
is going to bend you out of shape, because we cannot afford to have
any passengers in this place, because it is going to be “all
hands to the pump” and a lot of stuff happening, and we are
going to have to learn to run. We are going to have to learn to
move with the pace that God is moving. And you are definitely going
to have to stop procrastinating. It is time to run. You know when
the opportunity of a lifetime comes, you have to act within the
lifetime of the opportunity. Things are going to grow exponentially
each year. So the hand of the Lord is going to be upon you, and
the favor of the Lord is going to be upon you. And, you are going
to learn to dream, you are going to learn to trust, you are going
to learn to move in faith in a big way.
And what does all of that mean for visitors who are here for a
conference? It means that to take this back with you in whatever
form you may hold it right now. And, it means when you go back to
your church in your community you go back as a catalyst. You go
back as someone who has been impregnated with something. And you
take it back with you. And, the Lord says that I require that you
get back into your place and into your own house that you begin
to speak out the things that you have seen and heard; that you begin
to move in faith and the Lord says He will dig out a prophetic well
where you live; that He will bring healing where you live. Understand
this, beloved. Some of you will pay a price for that. [For] Some
of you, God will open doors into that place so that what you bring
into a that church as a catalyst in that place will cause those
things to happen, so that you change the dynamic of that church
into something new and something amazing. Some of you, when you
go back with something from this place and you begin to act as a
catalyst, it will not be received. And you will be given the left
boot of fellowship; and it will be painful, but it will be necessary
because God is going to send you to a different tribe. And he will
take you to a place where you will be received, and that which you
have inside you will be celebrated, not tolerated. Yeah, and the
spirit with which you go back to the place where you live and where
you go back to serve the Lord in a higher way and a new way, the
spirit is this “such as I have, I give. Such as I have, I
give. This is what the Lord has given me, this is what I have to
impart to you, in Jesus name.” And there will be a power and
authority that will grow in you as you step up; and as you step
up there will be in you a growing anointing a growing authority,
and a place of increase. And for those whose place is cut off, know
that the Lord has made provision for you with another tribe. And
he will lead you there and it will be His leading and it will be
sovereign, and it will be relational. And you will impact those
places, because what you have to give will be impactful, so you
will impact places hugely.
This is about every single one of you. Every one of you has a capacity
in this next season to grow beyond your wildest imagination. [Beyond]
What you can see right now and what you can hear now and what you
can understand right now. This is your time of dreaming; this is
your time to dream, and it is a time to act, and it is a time to
believe, and it is a time to step into a place of increase. It is
a time to step into your personal inheritance. Understand that what
you see as your inheritance right now is just a beginning, just
a doorway. It is not everything, it is just an entry point into
a wide and spacious place that is bigger than what you can imagine.
And the Lord says that wherever you go, you may take it with you.
You may take it into your place of work, into your neighborhood,
take it into the nations, take it into your family and your extended
family, it is yours, it is yours to release. And the Father is going
to change the way you pray. And now you are going to stop praying
like a widow and start praying like a bride. Start praying as one
who is beloved, as one who has promise. He says I am leading you
away from the negativity and into proclamation where you will proclaim
the word of the Lord, where you will proclaim the word of the Lord,
and He will teach you and He will take you around the community,
around in the streets and you are to carry oil with you and you
are to mark places for a blessing. You are to mark you neighbor’s
house for a blessing, you are to mark public buildings for a blessing,
because the Lord says the favor that He is releasing upon you is
not just for you and your house, it is favor for your neighborhood,
it is favor for your work colleagues. You are to pray, you are to
mark your own work company; you are to mark it with oil, and you
are to pray for its prosperity, because that anointing is upon you.
This is a season of plenty. Don’t wait. Don’t wait.
Don’t wait a few years just to see how it pans out. You need
to come into a place of radical faith, because that is the journey
you are on.
So there are times, coming back to the church here, there are times
when we all need to get together, when you need to agree in faith
about what we are to do next, because we are to act as a corporate
man. Not act as a collection of individuals. You’ll do that;
you are a collection of individuals under the anointing and you
have permission in that context to release all that God is saying.
But it is stronger than that. God wants you to be one of the strong
men in this region, and to raise up warriors and champions who will
go into the nations and create strength and power and champions
and warriors, and strong men where you go, but there are going to
be times in the next seven (7) years when you all come together
and have one voice, one mind, one heart, and one spirit, and what
you are going to do – there is going to be a power released
in those times so that when you are severely under pressure of the
enemy the prosperity in this region is going to grow because the
enemy is going to have to strip people away from what he is doing
elsewhere to come and attack here Those will be the days of your
greatest breakthrough – when the enemy is at your front door,
the Lord says that that day is when you agree – that is when
you come together with one heart, one mind, one spirit, and you
pray with one voice and you proclaim and speak out with one voice
and the Lord says that power that comes from that community of faith
will break the power of the enemy once and for all. And so you will
come into a season where the enemy will be so severely knocked back
that we can go out into the highways and byways and many people
will be saved and communities be touched, and prosperity will come,
spiritually, to this region because you know how to put up a fight.
He is going to teach you how to fight. But there is a power in unity
that you must not only explore that you must absolutely come into
with total and complete intentionality. He will add people to you
who more anointed than you; He will add prophetic people to you;
He will add intercessors to you. He will add leadership to you;
He will add men and women of faith; He will add people of signs
and wonders. He will come from outside to be here, but he will also
draw up from your midst people who are touched in a great way; people
who are anointed; people who are touched by the power of God will
come out of nowhere and will be touched by a substance of the spirit
that we never imagined that individual might have. The Father says
there is a phrase for this and it is not open heaven. It is the
Kingdom coming to earth in reality- “on earth as it is in
Heaven”. Open heaven is where something comes down from Heaven
to touch us. “On earth as it is in Heaven” means Heaven
comes down and God comes with it. These are days of manifest presence.
[Speaking to this house again] It is so very important that every
single one of you comes into a greater place of personal joy, thanksgiving,
praise and worship. You’ve got to do something yourself to
put yourself into a greater place of worship with the Lord; into
a greater place of intimacy with the Lord. Won’t be long before
we need to get rid of all these pews. We need to get rid of them
because they are an obstacle to us. Some of us are hiding behind
them. We need to get rid of them. Because we know we need just regular
chairs, something that is comfortable and stackable because there
will be times when we may not actually have that many chairs put
out. We are going to have to make the best use of this building
as we can for as long as we have it.
This is not going to be comfortable beloved. It is not going to
be easy, or sweet. On days it is going to be nice, but it is totally
necessary. God intends to bend you out of shape; so, no point in
blaming him (Arty). There’s no point, because things will
be happening that are outside his control. But, you know what, he
doesn’t want control anyway. He is on his own journey into
permission giving, into freedom, into facilitating, into fathering.
He’s on his own journey into something extralocal, because
God has His hand on him. So, it is up to us who are resident in
this building, we have to grow up now; we have to take on some substance
and some faith. It is our time to grow up together. And, because
Church as we have done it is no longer acceptable in that form,
God is giving us a different form of church; one where we’re
not necessarily led from the front. One where many of us come into
a place of leadership and ministry. We are all going to have to
become great servants and great stewards in what God is doing. And
so, there is a unity that we need to come into as a body that is
tangible and that is real. Now, it is not going to happen all at
once in the next few weeks. But in the next few weeks, signs and
wonders are coming into our midst. So, right now, we need to prepare
the way of the Lord.
[The below section is for everyone, really, I believe.]
And those of you who are not part of this church community, who
come from other places – the Lord is just saying this is a
season where you need to sit down with me and consider your ways,
you need to consider your life, you need to consider the cost of
coming with me on this journey. You need to come to a place of dreaming.
You need to know you have permission to be and do. But I am calling
you up to a higher level. It is up to you if you come. The way is
open, and I am looking you in the eye and saying “come”
Get out of the boat and come. Come and walk in a life you could
never imagine. Come and walk on a substance you have no business
being on. I give you permission. Come and live a life that right
now is totally beyond you. Come, and I will open it up for you.
And I will cause you to see it and I will cause you to embrace it.
But, beloved, the Kingdom of heaven is NOT for the fainthearted.
Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. And by
violence, God doesn’t mean nasty, He doesn’t mean –
He doesn’t give permission to be horrible. Violence means
the Kingdom comes to people who are virulently passionate; who are
so passionate about God that they will let nothing get in their
way. The Kingdom of Heaven falls to those with a passionate nature.
That God will never say no to your passion. He will encourage you
to be even more passionate; so you will have a passionate love for
Jesus and a passionate hatred for the devil and all of his works.
And, you will be driven by passion. And your passion will cause
you to be turned into a different man and a different woman. And
your passion will propel you into places of faith and anointing
that right now it would be difficult for you to imagine. So God
has taken up your dream. And He is depositing it on a higher level
of experience and faith, and a different type of capacity. And,
He is inviting you “come up to this level, come higher, come
up to this level; live an ascended lifestyle; come up to a higher
place in the spirit.” All of these things are waiting, waiting
for you to come and place yourself on this new level. So no longer
say “I can’t”. Drop those words out your vocabulary.
Don’t think any longer that it will never happen for me. Drop
that thought out of your mindset. Think this; All things are possible
to me because I intend to believe. And you only need a small amount
of faith invested in the intentionality of God, and things will
start to move. Come. Just come. Walk with me, run with me. These
are years of plenty. You don’t want to wait. You should come.
Because in 7 years time, you don’t want to hear the Lord saying
these words: you should have, then you would have. That is the worst
thing you can hear in the Kingdom -You should have, then you would
have.
Do you remember the story in the Old Testament about the King when
the prophet was dying? The king came and was lamenting that the
prophet was dying, and the prophet was having none of it –
it was his time to die and he was saying “I am keen to go”
and he called for the window to be opened and he called for a bow
and arrow; then open the window and shoot this arrow out. Then he
said “strike the ground” and the King was a little half-hearted
– maybe he was embarrassed, maybe he didn’t see what
was going on. But, he wasn’t as wholehearted as he should
have been and he struck the ground 3 times. The prophet was annoyed.
He said you should have struck the ground 6 times. Because then
you would have had complete victory over the enemy. As it is you
will only win 3 battles, and you will not obliterate the enemy,
he will come back at you. You will only have 3 victories. I wonder
how the King felt on the morning of the 4th battle? What was going
through his head? I remember preaching that message in Glasgow Scotland.
And the Scottish people are mad. And I just said, guys we need to
strike the ground for Scotland. I have never seen such fervor in
all my life. They were wailing and beating the ground for like one
hour and 15 minutes; at the top of their voices. There are very
few races as passionate as the Scots. I remember after an hour and
15 minutes that everyone – men and women – are just
soaked with sweat. And there is an old guy, and he must have been
about 90 and he says “there is no dust left in that carpet.”
I am thinking only Scots would do that type of stuff.
But, there are extraordinary things happening. You see, beloved,
this is a time and a season where you have permission to take God
at his word. So if this prophecy is a Ferrari, you all need to take
it out for a spin, and see just what you can get out of it. Ferraris
are made for breaking the speed limit. That is what they are made
for – so, you need to put your foot DOWN. And, ask, how far
can I go in this thing and what can I get out of this little beasty?
Prayer
Father in the name of Jesus – Lord, I am jealous for this
house. Father I pray that there will be a resident anointing in
this house that will be overwhelming. I pray Lord for a power and
an anointing and a zeal and an passion on this property that will
be outrageous. That will be in keeping with your passion and your
intentionality. I pray for an anointing upon this house Lord where
you will release miracles to such an extent that they will be commonplace;
where you will release a faith; I pray for a unity of spirit; for
oneness of heart, oneness of mind, one spirit, one voice, a total
unity – especially in the face of the enemy. I pray for a
oneness and a unity so extraordinary that angels will have to come
down to see what it looks like. Father I pray for an anointing and
a power and a zeal to be released in this house in such a way that
it will defy description. I ask for seven years of plenty. I ask
for a move of God so powerful that it will beg a belief for a move
of God so powerful Lord, that we will not be able to contain it;
that it will spill out over this city and the other churches will
come under that anointing of it, that other houses will prosper
and that it will roll through our neighborhoods and the business
quarters and the length and breadth of this city, that it will touch
the campus that students will be touched and convicted and there
will be a move of God. I pray that there will be a move of God flowing
out of this place across the earth. I ask for every person here
that is not a part of this community that you will impregnate them
with their own seed of future destiny. That you will touch each
one and they will go back to their homes as a catalyst and that
you will be pleased to blow on them and breathe through them that
you would move through their lives in such a way that they will
be contagious, that they will infect and influence many people.
That you would cause us to be a catalyst for the kingdom. Lord that
these are extraordinary days, and they are days of dreaming. The
days of Dreams that are coming true. These are days of abundance,
days of plenty, days of God doing super abundantly beyond more than
we can ask or think. Days where there are many things coming to
fruition where the good news of the gospel will become incredible
and splendid news and where the good news of the gospel will border
on fantasy. That we will think that we are dreaming because of all
of the stuff that is happening and that we will come into places
of favor and anointing in You that will be astonishing. And my prayer
Lord is that we will be an astonished people, that we will be people
of marvel, that we will be amazed, that we will be rejoicing, Father
that this will be a place of absolute intimacy; that there will
be a level of praise, high praise in this place, here and a level
of worship, level of celebration unheard of in the state. There
will be such a spirit of rejoicing, such a spirit of celebration
upon us that angels will come to sing with us, because it will be
so much like Heaven on Earth. There will be times when the presence
of God will be so thick that no single person can stand. There will
be times of extraordinary things happening beyond our ability to
think, imagine or dream.
My prayer Lord, is, can we come into the place of Your dreaming?
Can we come into the place of things that you are longing to do?
Will you come and do things beyond our wildest imagination? So profound
so amazing that there will be days when we will look at one another
and say “did you ever think it could be as astonishing as
this?” “This is amazing, I wonder what Heaven is going
to be like?” It will be that like Heaven, like Heaven coming
down. And I ask Lord, especially in this place, that you would raise
up warriors and champions; that we would see the modern day equivalent
of David’s mighty men of valor. So some really nasty warriors
there, eh? What about the man who could kill 800 with a spear? These
want those kinds of monsters in this church. We want people who
won’t quit, who won’t give in, who will believe God
against all odds, who will overcome against all the odds. And Father,
we want to create an environment in this place where people walking
into the building will be healed, set free, because You are here.
Where it will be impossible for Satanists to live in this place.
And I ask You Lord for a spirit in this house that hates disease
and takes it as a personal insult to the cross. I ask for that in
Jesus name. That we will go after diseases and we will pursue them,
and we will tackle them to the ground in Jesus name. And there will
be times, just like in the Gospels, where Jesus will heal everyone,
because that is the anointing. So Father, I pray in Jesus’
name, release something so outrageous it is beyond dreaming –
and we will just look at each other and say “man alive, whew,
shish, I don’t know what to think, I don’t know what
to think, I don’t know what to pray. This is so far beyond
my logic and my reason. I though I had to be with it.” Isn’t
this amazing? And, we will never again pray “Holy Spirit come”.
Instead, we will be praying “don’t take your Holy spirit
from us”. We will be living lives of such respect and awe
of God that we will not do anything, anything that will prevent
the anointing from flowing. There will be a humility, there will
be a holiness, there will be a righteousness, there will be an integrity,
there will be a morality so fierce, so pure that we would not do
anything to grieve the Holy Spirit. And there will be a love for
the Holy Spirit in this place that is huge, that is majestic. We
will love him, we will revere him, and we will let him do his job!
And He will bring Jesus to us and make Him real and solid, and tangible,
that we may worship the Lord with a full heart. So Father, I ask
a blessing on this house, and I say let this be the beginning of
days, in Jesus name. And we ask that Jesus would look back on the
travail of His soul and be satisfied here. This will be a place
where He is radically exalted, where He is loved and blessed, revered
and lifted up high, and His name will be exalted in this place.
And that here, in this very place that there will be a spirit of
excellence that would bless Him. And we ask it, Lord, for His sake
because He deserves that kind of excellence. He deserves it, He
deserves it, He deserves it. And we pray that we will gladly and
lovingly give it to Him, because it is just our reasonable service.
Amen
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