Author: The Rock Parkersburg

Prophetic Exhortation 8.12.18

Prophetic exhortation that came forth Sunday AM:

I hear the Lord say “You question the disconnect you are feeling, it’s on you not me-for you must press. (you say) Why do I not feel what these others appear to? It’s because they press. If you want the oil from the olive it must go through a pressing. Both the trials of life will be a pressing but also your own choice of pressing into the pursuit of the Father. I’m tired of chasing you down tapping you on your shoulder and beckoning over and over while u swat me away, annoyed by what it may cost you for more; there’s a cost for relationship, there’s a cost for revival.

You must press for the anointing. For the outpouring of the spirit there must be a cleansing. You cannot expect to get warmed by the fire by sitting in the shadows on the outskirts of camp. You must press in and get close to get warmed, to catch a spark, to be set ablaze you must get next to the fire. Will it hurt? Yes, at times, but it only hurts in the places I must burn away in a refining purge of your flesh and sin. You cannot continue a selfish mindset of Me pursuing you and that pursuit never turning to Me and have revival. You must decide. Pursue your own desires or leave it all and be my disciple, my flame carrier, my remnant. You cannot experience the movement I’m bringing in the church without you being involved in the movement. My church isn’t a building it is all of you sitting in this room. YOU are individually making up My church. You must come closer to the fire. You cannot expect to set the darkness ablaze with the light of truth without getting closer to the fire. Allow My fire to cleanse you and take you deeper. Let me draw you out of what’s happened to you and the victim mentalities and remind you of my power and who I am when you come closer to me. Come close I am calling COME TO ME. Come out of hiding! I’ve not forgotten you but have you forgotten Me? Nothing is hidden from Me anyway I see it all. Come to Me my bride! Come allow Me to cleanse and set you free and ablaze with the fire of reformation to change the course of this blackened world! COME to Me!”

Now she gives insight…….
When I heard this on Saturday- the thing that kept popping out at me is that we, the church has an epidemic of making what has happened to them and making what happened in their sin, and what they’ve done, bigger than God and what God’s done for us. The church has an epidemic of thinking “I’ve done this, so I can’t be who I am called to be, and all these things have happened to me and they are limiting me.” But what He is saying is – “You can’t let certain chapters and moments dictate your entire story. You can’t stay in that moment and be limited by that and let the devil continue to deceive you and keep you in hiding.”

I see God just roaming the earth like He did in the garden after Adam and Eve hid in their shame – He is roaming around saying “Where’s My bride? Where’s My church? Why are you hiding?”

Everything you need is inside of you. He has already placed everything in you that you need. You just have to draw close to the fire and let Him ignite that and let Him set you ablaze- we all have our things that have happened to us. But, you can’t stay there and let the enemy convince you that is where your story ended – you gotta press past it! You gotta move on! Your freedom might be what sets off a chain reaction to someone else’s freedom. On the other side of your testimony, might be someone else’s freedom. You gotta get that inside of you.

So, can I prophesy over you this morning? Can I prophesy that “You will be a people of freedom! You will be a people of victory! You will walk and you will not grow weary in what the world throws at you, but you will stand firm and you will be His disciples. You will no longer live limited in what has happened to you. You will rise above it and you will be His bride!”

Say this – I am not a victim! Say it like you have had a Damascas road encounter with God and a revelation of who He is – say I am not a victim – I am free, I am victorious! Now sound your alarm church! Let the devil know there are some people getting free in this house. Let the devil know fire is catching in Parkersburg- let the devil know we are taking back who we are called to be. We won’t believe the lies, we won’t believe the lies, we won’t believe the lies because we are free. Now walk in freedom!

– Emily Ferguson 8.12.18

To watch this click here8.12.18 Exhortation

I Will Pour Out My Spirit…..

Wednesday night service -7.25.18, was full of the Spirit of God! Joel 2:28 came alive! After worship, there was some prophetic ministry and flow.

It began with Joe Tenant admonishing us to allow others to grow from glory to glory, just as we, ourselves, grow from glory to glory! We can’t continue to look at others the way we have in the past…what if they do that to you? How will we ever minister to one another? He read out of Luke 4 and shared how people were amazed at Him, until someone said – isn’t that Joseph’s son? Folks, God wants to use all of us, regardless of where we came from! The beginnings of REVIVAL is here!

Then Brooke Nangle came forth with a vision she had recently where during praise and worship there came a great pressure under our feet and suddenly trees and plants began to burst forth through the floor, tearing down the walls and going out through the community. She said God has spoken two things: 1. We are about to birth new life and 2. There is about to be spiritual growth. She reminded us to stay humble because God could have picked any place, but He has chosen here! God is asking “Are you spiritually mature enough to carry this movement out?” She went on to say that the only way this will be carried out is if we carry this into our alone time with God – daily! GIVE GOD SOMETHING TO WORK WITH! She then prayed over us that we would give Him what He needs so that we can spiritually birth this MOVEMENT!

It didn’t stop there……then we have Emily Ferguson. She gave a corporate word, and then preached like a woman on fire! Here is the corporate word:

I hear God say, You come to Me and say, “Oh, God, fill me up Father, fill me with your living water, your spirit, fill me with you!” But my question to my children is are you being emptied or drained? Are you pouring out all the Spirit has poured into you, fulfilling your assignment day to day and awakening to who I’ve called you to be – or are you allowing the world to drain you? Are you allowing the lies and confusion of the enemy access into your mind and thoughts and choosing to believe him,- and giving him permission to come in and suck that life from you that I have filled you with? Are you allowing the situations and issues of life around you to drain you, instead of choosing to garment yourself in My joy and praise? Are you choosing to let your inability to prioritize what truly matters in life, drain you from having anything left to pour out into the world for Me?

Ask yourselves today are you being emptied by the Spirit or drained by the world? You choose which you allow. You give the world permission to drain you when you do not walk in victory and identity as a son or daughter. What are you allowing to fill you? Are you coming with your arms open, receiving a filling and outpouring from Heaven? Are you receiving your daily bread by communion and relationship cultivated and prioritized with Me? Are you being fed by the Spirit and living out the fruits of the Spirit, or are you letting the world feed you? Are you letting media, and culture fill you? Are you letting the world pour its poison out on you thus producing the fruit of compromise instead of the fruit of the Spirit? Are you so ignorant to My words that you can believe any word spoken by any man in a pulpit and accepting it as truth? Is the man with the relevant and trendy cutting-edge ideas, but isn’t preaching an uncompromised gospel of Jesus, your words of “God”, because you have made him your earthly idol, your god, because you haven’t taken the time to engage in intimacy and growth in your relationship with Me and hidden My words in your heart? so now these trendy preachers can sway you this way or that because your idol has fed you his empty false doctrine instead of My words of truth grounding you in a solid foundation.

When you pursue God and His word, you won’t have to follow man, you won’t have to worry or panic over knowing if you are being sucked in a doctrine of lies and confusion or not, because your foundation is built on My truth and your fulfillment will come from following Me, so when the man takes a wrong turn in his teaching and leading you won’t be deceived into following him down that path, you will stay on the way made straight and plain because you KNOW My voice and My word.

Fill yourselves with My truth, My word, be fed by My daily bread, and be emptied by the Spirit daily in your assignment to further expand the territory of TRUTH and LIGHT because YOU are My salt and light!

I desperately burn and yearn for a generation that is in love with the word of God

Wow! I encourage you to read this word and pray over it in your lives. There is a link below to the point in the service where this prophetic flow begins for each person. Avail yourself to this and let the Holy Spirit have His way!

Joe Tenant

Brooke Nangle

Emily Ferguson

Fresh Outlook!

By Jamie Tennant

We have loving, compassionate Pastors, who seek God’s face everyday for their sheep. We have a leadership team who desire for the people of God to grow in who they are in Christ. We have a worship team using their God-given gifts to usher us into His Presence every single service. We have home groups with the sole purpose of connecting the body of Christ together in more personal ways. We have servants in the house of God with a gift to make our church experience more enjoyable and easier. We have a prayer ministry team who loves the chance to pray over whatever need or situation we have in our lives. We are blessed. Immensely.

Yet, most of us have become too familiar with the people we’re doing life with to receive the full benefit of what the Father has put inside of them. One of the definitions of familiar is: unduly intimate (unduly means ‘in an improper manner’); too personal; taking liberties; presuming.

We’ve become too familiar with the person beside us or across the aisle from us. We won’t allow certain people to minister to us because we don’t think they have anything to offer us. We don’t honor them the way we should because we ‘know’ them now: their quirks, their faults, their mess ups. We’ve seen them in their good times and their ugly times. We’ve taken our intimate knowledge of them and used it improperly and we miss the gifts that God has put inside of them for us. Or, maybe we’ve only ‘heard’ things about them. We’ve taken what we’ve heard and presumed things about them.

Presume: to assume as true in the absence of proof to the contrary.

At this point we’ve put a harness on their ability to minister to us. We’ve taken liberties (unwarranted freedom in action or speech) on who we think they are, or what we think they’re capable of offering us. Everything we need for life is in God, and God uses the tribe He’s placed us in to provide for us. If we have an area in our life that seems lacking, then it’s time to take a look at the limits we’ve placed on the people in our tribe.

I am praying, personally, for fresh eyes to see the people of God that He’s placed around me. Instead of seeing Pastor Dave on stage preaching ‘just another message’, I pray for eyes to see a man of God with an impartation from God for ME and my life. Instead of seeing the prayer team at the end of service standing there ready to pray for my cold or some calamity in my life, I pray for eyes to see the people God has placed there to speak a blessing into my life. Instead of dropping my kids off with ‘the babysitters’ in the nursery, I pray for fresh eyes to see the servants God has gifted to pour Kingdom into my children.

I heard a pastor say recently that “God is going to invade the earth through breaking off familiarity.” We can even become too familiar with what God is doing in our lives. We become too intimate, in an improper manner, with the Hand of God in our lives that we don’t even recognize or give him honor for it. It’s amazing when God supernaturally provides for us financially, but when He does it 4 or 5 or 9 times, its become familiar and we don’t honor or acknowledge Him for it anymore. We’ve just made our intimacy with God improper. When we can’t point to God for what He’s doing in our lives, He can’t be glorified. If He can’t be glorified in your life then who or what is your life actually pointing to?

We break off familiarity by acknowledging what God is doing in our life and pointing Him out to others.When we share what He’s doing in our lives others begin to look for Him in their lives, and then they begin to point Him out to others, and then those people begin to look for Him, and then, and then, and then…

Let’s start by repenting for allowing ourselves to make God’s goodness ordinary in our lives. Let’s pray for fresh eyes to see Him all around us. Let’s brag on Him every chance we get and watch Him show up time and time again, like a domino effect. Let’s begin to gather together with a fresh outlook. Let’s pray for God to allow us to see people the way He sees them. Let’s look for ways to honor our leaders, our fellow believers and increase honor, which will increase faith to expect great things! Father! Give us fresh eyes to see what You want us to see! AMEN!