Hello, thank you so much for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of today's post is Minnesota, the Threshing Floor State.

In October of 2002, the Lord spoke separately to Chuck Pierce and me,

and we were to go to all 50 states.

He instructed us to release fresh prophetic words from Holy Spirit to each state and conduct prayer assemblies regarding what he said. We did this in

2003 and early 2004, holding three services per state. Of the 150 messages we gave, no two were the same.

In each service, Holy Spirit gave specific words for that state. I primarily released prophetic teachings, prayed, and released

decrees over each state. Chuck moved in a remarkably high level of prophecy in each of the

gatherings. It was incredibly challenging, but also very fulfilling. Chuck and I wrote a book about

this assignment, giving summaries of what was said to each state, along with a few related

teachings. The book is entitled The Prophetic Destiny of a Nation. You can order one from our website if you're interested.

We've now added a couple of chapters from my brother, Tim Sheets, to augment the teachings.

I had not thought about what the Lord said to Minnesota in quite some time.

But a few nights ago, Holy Spirit awakened me several times.

Each time, as I awakened, a word he released to Minnesota was always in my thoughts.

While there, August 4 and 5, 2003, he said to us, Minnesota was the threshing floor state.

I remember telling the Lord when he spoke this to me during the worship that I had no idea what it meant.

He'd never released words to us for each state in advance.

This required that we hear him for each state while in that state. All of my messages were

downloaded to me during the worship portion of the services. It's a bit unnerving to hear a word

from the Lord you were supposed to teach on in a few minutes and have no idea what it means.

I quickly learned to listen more effectively to Holy Spirit.

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