My Prophetic Vision for 2025

Welcome to my show. Self Talk with me, Dr. Ray Self; I appreciate you listening today. As I record this show, it is the beginning of 2025, and the Lord has put something on my heart prophetically that I believe is from Him that I want to share with you. This is a very important show. I believe it's what God has spoken, and I say that very humbly and trusting in Him. So thank you again for listening. Uh, this show is sponsored by the ministry that I founded, International College of Ministry…uh, which we're enrolling right now at icmcollege.org/enroll. Check it out. There's a lot of free stuff on there as well. The main thing is I appreciate you listening to this show. This is Dr. Ray Self, and have a blessed and happy 2025.

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Okay, here we go. Heavenly Father, I praise you, we thank you. We give honor to the name of Jesus Christ and Lord, I declare and decree a blessing over everyone listening to this show today, to this podcast, Father. And Lord, we just honor you. Lord, I just pray that my words and my, my thoughts will come from you, Lord. Holy Spirit, we just submit this show to you. We give you praise and honor. In the name of Jesus, thank you, Lord. In Jesus’ name, amen. Amen. 

So folks, as I was thinking about 2025 and been meditating on 2025. There’s a couple of things I believe the Lord has shown me prophetically. The first thing I want to share with you is that I know and I believe very strongly that many people are in a season of change right now, and it's been very unsettling for you. And this unsettledness is…it's like you're uncomfortable where you are but, but you're not where you need to be yet. And so that puts you in the middle ground in, in the desert area. But I want to reassure you in this particular place, uh, being uncomfortable – not where you're at, but not the comfortable place where you know you should be, or you think that you should be. Maybe you don't even see it yet. This is the place of God's provision, this is the place of God's teaching you, this is the place of God’s showing you and preparing you for your future. So when you're in that middle ground, know that it is a very important place and God is in the middle ground. You're, you're leaving, or you're getting ready to leave where you are, you're not where you're going. It’s this place, the middle ground - the Israelites called it their desert wanderings - but in this place is where God downloads His, His revelation, His anointing, His provision, His vision, His ideas to you. So embrace this new unsettling season, this change. Nobody likes change, you know, we're all creatures of habit, but embrace it and wait and understand that God is doing something very powerful for you in this season, okay? 

The second thing I saw prophetically is in 2025, I saw the enemies of God imploding. And what that means is I saw the enemies of God destroying each other. In the Bible…in the Bible, there's a, a scripture that we were very familiar with that, that says um, uh, it's in 2 Chronicles. It's about Jehoshaphat, and all these armies had risen up against Israel and about to destroy them. And it was a very, very, very scary time for them. Uh, it was an overwhelming time for them. And in the midst of this season, uh, there came a prophetic word. Now, you got– all these armies have risen up, are going to literally, um, overwhelm Israel. They have no hope against them, but they do. 2 Chronicles 20:15. Now this is a guy named Jehaziel who stood up in the midst of the assembly. He's an unknown guy who gave a prophetic word to Judah and Jerusalem, and he said, “‘Listen, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, and King Jehoshaphat! Thus says the Lord to you: ‘Do not fear or be dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God's.’’” The battle is not yours, but God's. so what happened in that story, and some of you may know this story, but in that story, you know, they– the Lord told them what to do, told them where to go. he told them to go to the, the end of this particular valley and stand and watch the battle. And what they did was they went, and they obeyed God. They went exactly where He told them to go, amen. And when they got to where the Lord told them to go, they just began praising Him. In 2 Chronicles 20:22 - this has a lot to do with you, so hang in there - 2 Chronicles 20:22 “When they began singing and praising, the Lord set ambushes against the sons of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come up against Judah; so they were routed. For the sons of Ammon and Moab rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, destroying them completely. And when they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.” So what you see here is the enemies of God; when God intervened, the inhabitants of Jerusalem did not have to physically fight. They had to stand and watch the battle as the enemies of God destroyed each other. This is what I am seeing happen in America in 2025. I see the enemies of God destroying each other. They are discrediting each other, they are disunifying each other, they are causing their own havoc and their own consequence. 

In 2025, the enemies of God will implode. And that– see, an explosion goes outward, an implosion goes inward. The enemies of God are imploding upon one another, and I see that happening in 2025. We've already seen evidence of that in 2024, of the enemies of God imploding upon one another. What does that mean for us? We are to stand firm, we are to stand firm in our faith, stand firm in our beliefs, trust God, pray to God, pray for those who persecute us, pray for our enemies, pray for America. We are to do all of that, but the battle ultimately is not your battle; it is God's battle. And God is going to cause the enemies of Christ to destroy, discredit, disunify, discredit, dis– just…hurt…and, and just implode upon each other. Now, I'm not talking about death and destruction, but I am talking about them losing their power and influence in America. As you know, the spirit of the Antichrist has risen very powerfully in our nation, but what's going to happen is these unbelievers, these people that are blaspheming the Lord and His word, are going to start causing harm and imploding upon themselves…2025. 

Now, I pray that this is coming from the Lord. I believe that this is. Uh, I humbly submit this to you, and I'll humbly submit this prophetic word, um, to all that are listening to us. And you can pray about it, amen. You can pray about it. I do not wish harm on anyone, um, I love people, I love our nation, uh, but I just– this is what I see, the enemies of God destroying each other. Now, destruction can take place in many ways, okay. I'm not talking about violence, I'm talking about whatever God wants to do with them. I'm talking about their own suffering, their own consequences, and reaping consequences upon each other for their rebellion against God. Our job is to stand and to praise and to, to pray and to worship and to teach and to disciple and be a witness and to love and forgive, that's our job as Christians, amen. So thank you. This is a short show today. I just wanted to get this message out. This is what I believe the Lord has shown me, so God bless you and thank you for listening to Self Talk with me, Dr. Ray Self. God bless you.

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Well, this is Dr. Ray as we close out…and uh, a little different kind of a show today. Now, let me just give you a little instructions about prophetic words, okay? The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 14 that we should pursue love first, earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that we would prophesy. A prophetic word is when someone believes the Lord has spoken to them and relays that message, okay? The word should bring edification, uh, consolation, and comfort according to the, the book of Corinthians, period. Now, anybody who gives a prophetic word, they're human, and we are fallible. So, if anyone says, “Well, I, I've got the word of the Lord, I am perfect, and I never say anything incorrect,” well, that's just not true because we're still human beings. So the prophetic word I gave in this podcast, I gave to what I believe the Lord has spoken to me. But please pray about it, you know…uh, and don't be disturbed by it. I think it's, it's going to take some pressure off of us in 2025, and we're going to see the glory of God, and we're going to see God restore our nation to what he called it to be. Our job is to stand firm, to trust, to obey, to witness, to praise, to love, and forgive. 

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