God’s Power Made Available Through You!
By Lauren Hasson
Danny Silk had just finished speaking in one of his classical ways that left everyone filleted. As a former butcher, he knows just where to insert the knife to accomplish his purpose. I was in the middle of processing it all, when I looked up to see him holding the mic to me, whispering, “Do you have something?” My hard stare back and sideways head shake showed a vehement “NO!” He finished his session and said with his impish grin, “You will next session!”
As everyone went off to dinner, I begged off, secretly slinking off to my room so I could have a prophetic-cram-session with Holy Spirit. I was used to having “words” for groups when they came to me in their simple, organic way. I was not used to having prophetic words on the spot. My rising fear gave way to pleading Holy Spirit to show up. As I sat in the front row for the next session of the conference, I prayed every prayer I could think of , finishing with Hail Mary! And just as promised, at the end of the session, there was the mic again with an even more determined look from Danny. To make matters worse, we were in Scotland, land of my ancestors who were hoping I’d make them proud. I stood there waiting for inspiration, when all the sudden Holy Spirit gave me a vision, then a word starting coming, and the next thing you know I was instructing the drummer to start some ancestral drum beat and away we went. What happened next was beyond the pale. Holy Spirit began moving, people were encountered, and freedom roars ensued, all with the warrior drum beat of my fellow Scot. As it started to calm down, Danny and I looked at each other in wonder with that “What was that?!?” look.
The next morning, Bob and I lay in bed talking about it all, when a tremor started in my body. It was a little tremble in my right hand, then it moved up my arm, slowly making its way across my frame until I was uncontrollably shaking. Bob held me, praying over me for what seemed like an eternity until extraordinary peace flooded into every part of my body. Holy Spirit began prophesying through Bob that He had empowered me for something new, changing the way we would speak together. “Trust Me that at any time I will use your voice. I will always show up for you. Know that at times you won’t even feel an anointing, but you will hear me ask you to speak.” He then told me he had both delivered me from fear and equipped me with an increased capacity of His prophetic voice.
As we continued to travel with Danny, I prayed for cities, organizations, leaders. I began to feel His heart over the people and their diverse cultures, seeing their difficulties and their opportunities through His eyes. There were times He asked me to prophesy directly into a situation, and other times He called me to intercede solely to Him.
His encounter with me opened the way for something new.
Once He healed that fear of not “being prepared”, I was able to anticipate Him giving me what I needed in the moment. My future expectation of His revelations, gave me eyes to see and ears to hear what He was showing me for various people groups, different cities, different individuals. My fear was replaced by His heart to love others through me. I was free because it was all about His love for them!
Growing in Your Capacity.
Moving out of your comfort zone means allowing Holy Spirit to do things in a new way. He is asking you to trust Him to provide everything you need for what He is giving you in a moment. Here’s a few ways you can grow in capacity:
· Ask Holy Spirit if there’s a new way He wants to use you.
· Choose to risk going past your own capacity so you can rely on Him.
· Ask Him if this assignment is for you, then WAIT for the answer.
· Got your assignment? Call on His resources to fill it.
· Continue to thank Him for what He’s done in the past when you feel stretched, it strengthens your trust in Him in the now.
· Share your dreams with trusted friends. They see what you’re made for before you do. (Thank you Danny Silk!)
· Celebrate every win! It rewires your belief system for the future.
As you grow in your capacity of trusting in Him, your creative imagination will begin to increase as well. Seeing His faithfulness, His creativity, His power opens up new levels of dreaming together with Him. You experience a deeper partnership with Him as you rely on Him to fulfill all that He desires to do with you and through you.
This deeper level of trust moves us into a new way to process the present. I am not living in the loss and disappointment of the past. I am not anxious for my future. I am hearing what He is unfolding through me, so when an opportunity to be used by Him opens up, I am ready.
And then there’s Romania...
I was happy to be sitting at the end of a great day in Romania. The worship was pouring out over me and I was lost in thought over all God had done that day. We had ministered as a strong team in the slums of Romania with Super Sue Stein, we had played with the beautiful gypsy children, I had been able to release His message in the morning session. I was content and grateful. In the midst of my thoughts, I suddenly realized my good friend from Jesus Culture, Zack Curry, was standing before me smiling broadly.
“Do you have anything for tonight?”
“Zack”, I replied, “I don’t think so. I’m just loving this music right now.”
“Yeah, it’s great. Just walk up with me to the stage and let’s see if you have a prophetic word to release.” He continued, with that same Danny twinkle in his eye.
As I walked up, I laughed at Holy Spirit Hijinks. No..... I ain’t got a thing, but I was fascinated to see what He would show me next!
I pray that you will continually experience the immeasurable greatness of God’s power made available to you through faith. Then your lives will be an advertisement of this immense power as it works through you!
Ephesians 1:19