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, your spiritual senses are being awakened.
HAKEEM: Yes.
