Ray Hughes 06/05/2016
I just want to tell you what I felt like the Lord spoke to me today. This is the day to awaken the sleeping poets in this place that have been intoxicated with pain and disappointment and you’ve fallen into a slumber of hiddenness. And your dialect will determine your destiny. And this is the day that the Holy Spirit is going to awaken the language that’s going to release you into the new days of life. And there are some things that are going to be sorted out in your spirits today that’s going to give new language to your journey. Because this is a time where the Holy Spirit is going to do something that’s gonna stop this thing we all do. We attempt to confine God’s doings in the limits of our knowings and we’re not going to be able to do that any more. And this is a day of…you know revival is not coming to this house. It’s already here. There’s a here now revival that’s already lying in that place of sometimes disappointment and pain. And it’s just waiting for the new sounds to awaken the new you because a new song is coming. And revival that’s coming to this house is going to have impact all over the world. And I know some of you don’t know me, and I’m not one of these canned preachers - stir up people. And my goal in this room today is not to get an amen. But I do want to tell you that revival iscoming and the Holy Spirit is going to do things that we do not have the ability to manage, manufacture or manipulate. God is going to do something that we cannot MAN-age, MANufacture or MAN-ipulate. God’s gonna reveal himself in ways that no other generation has ever experienced God. And for us to believe that we already know everything there is that can be known about God is one of the most arrogant things Christians will ever try to wrap their head around. And I said it the other night, every time creativity occurs God reveals another facet of His nature. And there are multi-faceted amazing wondrous powerful beautiful -find you a word because God’s about to unleash a new language into your life, and your dialect will determine your destiny.
This is a place of an outpouring of God’s great grace, but that outpouring that will come from here will come because God unleashes something that will cause us to know that there is a boundless grace, an unlimited creativity that we have access to in heaven. And boundless grace is a powerful powerful thing. Boundless grace comes out of the reality that…there’s a definition of grace that sometimes is overlooked. Grace is a divine infusion of God’s enablement into our lives to see to it that we fulfill our intended purpose and no enemy or no devil in hell can keep you from fulfilling your intended purpose in your life. And we don’t have to live in the slumber of disappointment and pain, broken dreams, disillusionment, striving out of the energies of our own flesh. Cause anything you build out of the energy of the flesh, you get to maintain it by the energy of the flesh. And when you do that, that’s one of the reasons striving leads to burnout and hurt and pain. And then we start just running on kind of an automatic pilot if you will, trying to survive through this thing called the Kingdom. But the Kingdom is about to be redefined to a lot of people in this room. And I just want to declare it prophetically over this house that this really is a new day. And you know we don’t have to have bells and whistles and horn blowing, all that kind of stuff. It’s not so much about celebrating a prophecy. It’s about God celebrating a time that He has marked for a new wind to blow. And so today is the day for the beginning of a blowing of a new wind that will carry the sound of this house all over the world. And the Lord - I’ll get into more of it at another time, maybe a little later- The Lord showed me that this house was like a cymbal and when I say cymbal I’m not talking about metaphorically a metaphor. I’m talking about this house is like a cymbal, like a Zildjian cymbal. You know the oldest company in America, the very oldest business in America is Martin guitar company- 1833 nonstop oil this day. The oldest business or company in the world is Zildjian cymbal company. Both of those are instruments. One is stringed, one is a percussive instrument. And at the striking of a cymbal, what happens is is wave after wave after wave comes out of the epicenter of the percussive texture that happens there becomes wave after wave after wave after wave. And I don’t know how much I want to get into this in this short time that we have to get into it but I’ve sort of opened the door now.
The night before last I had a real encounter with the Lord that I can’t deny and it’s connected to this word, so I want to be careful to bring it as purely as the Lord gave it to me. But I drew the little thing here. You’re living in a land that has become somewhat defiled on many levels for many generations. You drive into your cities and it says welcome to Franklin Battlefield. And the land has been defiled by a lot of pain, a lot of blood. So God…what happens is when land is defiled, God will always send someone to redeem. And redemption always is always born out of sacrifice and obedience. And there’s a lot over the generations that need to be redeemed, restored, renewed. And I’m going to talk about that in just a second in a musical sense, but the Lord showed me that the conflict in the worship realm here will shift once the cymbal is struck. And this will be the center of wave after wave after wave that’s going to impact the world. And now, impact can happen upon strike but influence is something that comes out of the impact. And there’s going to be a multi-generational influence that’s born up out of this house because there’s a striking that’s taking place.