Prophetic Conference Jewels

I normally don't comment on sermons/conferences unless they impact me in a special way.  However, this conference I'm attending in Maui is brimming over with richness.  The quality of people here and their connections are hardly contested.  It is called the "Prophetic Conference" and it is held annually at this time in late summer.  I've had the privilege of attending several over the span of my life and I am thrilled at the prospect that there will be many more to come. 

There are several "prophets" who have flown from around the world to be here.  They are the regulars who attend every year and people from all over the world (literally) make the trip to Maui to hear what God is doing through their ministries and what He has to say to us today as a leading church in the U.S.  Anyone who knows me knows that I am a skeptic of religiousness:  fronts, jargon, and titles.  However, after seeing the fruit and amazing transformations these people bring about year after year, I have learned to open my heart again to the mysterious ways in which God works.

The first speaker, Mr. Emmanuel Canastraci, who opened up the conference last night spoke from John 5:1-15 about the man at the Pool of Bethesda.  To sum things up quickly, he spoke of these things:

*The churches in America have become their own Pools of Bethesda, where people wait for years and years in vain by a pool hoping one day someone, somewhere will save them from their misery.  We have become slow, complacent, disheartened, weak, and yet God is telling us to rise up!
*We are plagued with an "impotency" which means we lack dynamic passion!
*We are to rise up, shake off the demonic and the shackles that try and bind us!
*We are to be the most joyful people on the planet with an infectious love for people, life, and most of all, God.

Tonight, we heard from a great man, Mr. Jim Goll.  The poor man just lost his wife two years ago and nearly died from a cancer that spread throughout his body, yet he stood before us tonight whole and absolutely beaming with radiance of knowing God.  His message tonight:  Signs of the 3rd Great Awakening

Here is a fantastic list:  7 Signs of a Prophetic People
1.  They are spiritually awake!
2.  They live a clean and holy life!
3.  They seek to engage in spiritual warfare.
4.  They are living an honest, open and transparent life!
5.  They avoid carnal living (strife, envy, etc.)
6.  They lean totally on Jesus their Beloved!
7.  They keep their priorities right before God.

How many of us can do this!??!!  It seems impossible, but God wouldn't give us expectations if He knew we couldn't meet them!  He can enable us to do this and to do it well! 

*An "Awakening" is a long term mindset.  It channels and empowers people to do extraordinary things and to break OUTSIDE the church with the power of God.
*We need the Spirit to come with power AND conviction!!
*"Yesterday's dream about your tomorrow is today's opportunity".
*Mr. Goll shared a dream that was simplistic yet powerful.  In the dream, there were two fists upside down in front of him.  He knew he had to choose one.  He picked the right hand, which slowly opened to reveal a white pill.  He took the white pill to his mouth and upon seeing it up close, he was able to read a single word:  "Awake".  And he awoke from his dream with a burning message in his heart that the 3rd Great Awakening was beginning.
*Mr. Goll prophesied that the original revival that began in the Korea's (before it became Communist North and South) would be returned to its place of origin.  The revival occurred in the early 1900's and nothing has been able to compare to that time since. This is crazy because it implies that God's presence and his power will penetrate even the most stringent forms of resistance (as is the Communist North).

That is it for now.  We still have 3 more speakers to go and my favorite one is tomorrow night!  My hope is that permanent hunger and change are a result of this conference.  I don't want to be swept up in moments of emotionalism but rather the genuine transforming power of God.