Our Guests Jermaine & Rebecca Francis
SID: If everyone that’s watching me right now and in the studio audience can prophesy and you’re not, what’s stopping them, Rebecca?
REBECCA: Sid, it’s a good question. But I honestly think one of the main things that stops most of us, if we were to be honest, is fear. And even as much as we’ve prophesied, fear can still pop up anytime. But really the one thing that’s helped me, and I think it helps a lot of the people we activate is that if we can shift from thinking about, I’ve got to say what God says, which is whew, pressure, right? And then that begs the question, what if I make a mistake? Right? What if I’m wrong?
SID: And what if I’m a false prophet? I know what happens in the Bible to false prophets.
REBECCA: I know what happens, right. So it really puts a lot of pressure on us. But one of the most wonderful chapters of the Bible that we all learn so well is the love chapter, right? But the love chapter is sandwiched right between two chapters explaining how to move in the gifts of the spirit. And so that lets me know that the gifts of the spirit, they’ve got to be infused with love. So when we start thinking not, I’ve got to hear God and I’ve got to get it right, but look at this person, God loves you. Wow, he wants to touch your heart. And when I start thinking about you, that gift can flow through me much more easily and I can take the pressure off and let God love you using my gifting that he’s given to me.
SID: Oh, that really shifts things. In other words, I’ve noticed Jesus had compassion and the great miracles happen. What a different perspective rather than being a showboat, literally. And hearing God is so important. More so I think in the days we’re living in because we’re so close to the return of the Messiah than ever before in history. So Jermaine, you’re at a meeting and you’ve been set up. Someone is at that meeting to shut it down. Don’t you like to be at a meeting like that? Tell me about that.
JERMAINE: So we were ministering at a prophetic conference and what we didn’t know is the conference is a part of a denomination. And what we didn’t know was the person who was a head over that region was totally against the prophetic. He was not a fan. He did not believe in modern day prophets or God speaking to us today. And so I did not know that at the time. And so I actually called the guy out and I started to prophesy over him and minister to him and he begins to weep and cry just completely being touched by God in a powerful way. And in my mind I’m like, wow, that’s amazing. God’s ministering to him. And so we’d go back in the general session and he gets up on the platform and he says, “I’m over this entire region and I actually came to this meeting to shut this down.” And so he said I prophesied word for word what he said to his wife in the car on the way to that meeting.
SID: What effect did it have on that man?
JERMAINE: His heart was completely touched by God. He was completely opened up. He blessed the meeting, he blessed the gathering from that point forward and it just completely changed his heart.
SID: Rebecca, that’s an example of how the prophetic actually opens people’s hearts. Comment on that.
REBECCA: Absolutely. Because we can say to someone, God loves you and we know that’s true. And if I were to say to that man God loves you and he cares about what you’re worried about. Yeah, yeah, that’s true. But to be able to say something there’s no way anyone knew except him and God, that lets him know, wow, God really is right now very personal with me. And then they open their heart up to the Lord. That’s what Jesus did with the woman at the well. Jesus approached this woman in her everyday life and he got a word of knowledge about something factual that was going on and he exposed it. He said, “Where’s your husband? And actually you’re not married.” Right? But in giving that word of knowledge he opened her heart because she knew that he couldn’t have known that.
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