Our Guest Hakeen Collins
LARRY: Welcome back to Something More. I’m your host, Larry Sparks, and today we are talking about a very important [music] ends – very necessary – topic in the Church today because, let’s face it, there’s a lot of doom and gloom out there. You laughing – you don’t need a prophet to look at the news and say wow, there – there is all sorts of stuff going on. Deep darkness is truly upon the face the Earth; but simultaneously, in Isaiah 60, it talks about a glory that would arise, on the people of God. I believe one of the ways this glory is released is when our words come into agreement with God’s words, and we speak what He is saying. And so it’s such an honor, Hakeem, to have a true a modern prophet of the Lord on here, –
HAKEEM: Yes.
LARRY: a prophetic important for our words to be agreeing with what God is saying – whether it’s about a person, –
HAKEEM: Yes.
LARRY: about a situation – because again, it doesn’t take a prophet to see the negative.
HAKEEM: That’s right.
LARRY: It doesn’t take a prophet to see the dirt – call that out. It takes a prophetic eye, it takes a prophetic ear, to hear what God is saying about a person and a situation. So what I want to talk about right now is so many people are thinking to themselves, Well, okay you’re saying that this prophetic ministry is available to me. I imagine I have to hear God first before I speak, and we’ll talk about that a little bit later. But I want to ask you how, you know, God’s – I heard Kris Vallotton once say this: God’s first language is not English, and it’s not Hebrew, –
HAKEEM: Wow.
LARRY: because He’s God! He speaks –
HAKEEM: Yes.
LARRY: different ways. So can you talk about – just teach – teach a little bit about how God speaks; the different languages of God.
HAKEEM: Yeah. It’s – that’s a very good question, Larry. , me as a seer prophet – I will say a seer prophet – God speaks to me and you in unusual ways.
LARRY: Yes.
HAKEEM: He usually will speak through my spiritual senses. Even as we have 5 senses, I believe, prophetically, we have prophetic senses.
LARRY: Sure.
HAKEEM: And so as God will begin to open up my spiritual vision, He will give me visions of things; He will also give me dreams; He will also give me impressions.
LARRY: Mm.
HAKEEM: And I believe those are prophetic indicators that allow us to understand that God does not speak in one way. Sometimes we just think that you know, Gabriel would just come, and he –
LARRY: laughs
HAKEEM: would just speak and – and it will get a message. But I believe that God will use our prophetic senses – open our prophetic system – excuse me – our prophetic senses, –
LARRY: Sure.
HAKEEM: to begin to activate us in the prophetic realm. So in other words, dreams are one language that God will speak through. I mean He warned Joseph in a dream, –
HAKEEM: and gave him a word; even what to do with Mary and Jesus. Also, we see that God used the prophets – even the Old Testament.
LARRY: Mh.
HAKEEM: Even now, God is causing dreams to open up. Also vision –
LARRY: Yes.
HAKEEM: is another way that God speaks. You know the prophets were known, and they were caught up, and God showed them visions of Heaven.
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: So these are prophetic languages. People just think that God just wants – just going to speak, but God –
LARRY: Audibly, or something like that, yeah.
HAKEEM: audibly – but no; God speaks in so many different ways. I remember, Larry, I was in a service, and then God was speaking to me, and I saw words over the congregation. I saw like letters; I saw like words of someone having cancer. That was God opening my vision, allowing me to see in the spiritual realm, but also gave me a word of knowledge.
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: Then He will also open my spiritual senses in regards to my – my sense of smell.
LARRY: Mm.
HAKEEM: I was ministering to a young man in college, and it’s almost where God was opening up my spiritual senses with taste, where I taste like a lemon in my mouth. And it’s almost like well wow, how did that happen? God, what is You showing me? But He was just even unlocking my taste buds, allowing to get my attention, because no one put no lemon in my mouth!
LARRY: laughing Yeah!
HAKEEM: But there was something sour, this taste that I felt; and I sensed, while I was talking to him, God was opening my prophetic senses.
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: And as I was ministering to him, I said, There is sour; there is bitterness in your heart towards your father.
LARRY: Wow; wow. Well I want to stop there for a minute, because what I – what I love, Hakeem, is you have – whether it’s a taste, whether you’re seeing something, –
HAKEEM: hm.
LARRY: whether it’s like words over somebody’s head – what I love is that when these impressions come, whatever it looks like, the first thing that you’re doing, even as you’re talking to somebody –
HAKEEM: Yes.
LARRY: and one of these impressions come, you have a dialog with God.
HAKEEM: Absolutely.
LARRY: You – you talk to God about it. I’m wondering how many people out there, that God is speaking to them in these different ways.
HAKEEM: Yes.
LARRY: I mean do you think that there are people out there who God is trying to communicate with, and maybe they just don’t recognize it’s God?
HAKEEM: Yes. I believe that God is always speaking, –
LARRY: Yes.
HAKEEM: but He’s always speaking in different ways, and I believe we have to be sensitive. When we say, Lord, use me claps, Here I am. Send me! like Isaiah, –
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: If You use me, God will not just use your ears; but He wants to use your whole body. We are the body of Christ, so He wants to use our senses; He wants to use our body. And so I believe, in this hour, –
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: God is going to begin to activate those who have been questioning whether this gift is for you, or is it just for the prophets; no. I believe that the prophetic gift is for you. I believe that God is going to –
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: open up your prophetic senses. Even those who are watching right now, God is going to open it. And I just begin to prophesy over you, that your gifts will be unlocked; that your prophetic senses – your eyes, your ears, your mouth – you will be used of the Lord. This will be such a season where God is saying I am going to active your gift; I am going to open your prophetic senses. You won’t have to worry about being it –
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: just being a prophet; no. God says, I’m going to make you prophetic, and I am going to pour out My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. – You are that son, you are that daughter, that God wants to use in your generation.
LARRY: Yeah; yeah. Even as you’re saying that Hakeem, I just feel like there’s folks out there, where you’re questioning, Am I hearing from God?, and I feel like the Holy Spirit actually wants to begin a dialogue with you.
HAKEEM: Yes.
LARRY: I – I feel like it is legal for you to experiment with the Holy Spirit.
HAKEEM: That’s good.
LARRY: And you might think, Oh, wait; that’s scary. No, because when you ask God, when you ask God for the Holy Spirit; when you say, Holy Spirit, speak, you’re addressing God; He’s not going to give you something bad. He’s – it -just like in Scripture, When you ask, He’s not going to give you a snake, He’s not going to give you a scorpion; He’s going to give you only that which is good when you’re addressing Him. So I encourage you to ask God, in Jesus’ name. And, you know, it might be some sort of impression, it might be a vision, it might be a taste; it might be some way, vidio ends just like as Hakeem was just praying, your spiritual senses are being awakened.
HAKEEM: Yes.
LARRY: You must dialogue with the Holy Spirit. And I feel like even now, the Holy Spirit is saying, I am willing, child. I am more willing than you are. I am willing to begin that dialogue. All you need to do is ask. All you need to do is ask me what I am doing, and I will give you clarity, says the Lord. So it’s whacked desk, it’s just amazing –
HAKEEM: Yes.
LARRY: how that happens!
HAKEEM: Yes. And it always activates when – by faith.
LARRY: Yes! Yes.
HAKEEM: You know, God desires for us to have the faith – even like a childlike faith – and when we get to that place and understand that we don’t have to worry about how it comes out; –
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: but just speak the heart of God out. How I activate people, Larry, in the prophetic, is allowing them to speak, like God.
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: You know, become oracles of God. What is God saying?
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: It’s easy to encourage someone, it’s easy to build them up, and that’s how you start flowing in the prophetic; it’s just by faith, and just speak as God is speaking.
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: And I have seen a tremendous breakthrough by people that are just speaking for God!
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: Just releasing the love of God. It’s the love that draws people.
LARRY: And when we come back, we’re actually going to talk about how you can decree and declare the promises and the purposes of God – right now, in your life, and in your nation, in your city. Because let’s face it, there’s so much darkness on the Earth right now, but God has a prophetic strategy. He’s looking for a voice on Earth, to agree with that which is established in Heaven. I believe God wants you to be that prophetic voice, and I believe our prophetic guest here, Hakeem Collins, is going to help activate you, so you can declare God’s purposes and promises – with clarity. Stay tuned; we’ll see you in a minute.