Divine Speed: Synchronizing With God's Timing Through Praise and Prophetic Revelation

Divine Speed: Synchronizing With God's Timing Through Praise and Prophetic Revelation

Teaching by Prophet Lovy L. Elias · Watch on YouTube · 8 September 2021

Praise is not a response to breakthrough — it is the prophetic act that releases it.

True praise is not a reaction to what you can see. It is a declaration of what God has already ordained, spoken before the evidence arrives, and received before the manifestation comes. When you synchronize with God's divine speed through revelation and joyful noise, you position yourself to receive everything He has already prepared for you.


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Teaching Overview

  1. Praise is a prophetic act that declares your deliverance before it manifests — not a response to what you can already see.
  2. Lukewarmness is spiritually dangerous because it represents someone who has received the Word of God but chosen their circumstances over God's mind.
  3. Satan's primary strategy is to silence your praise, because he knows praise is prophecy over your own life.
  4. Divine speed is a product of revelation knowledge — knowing what others don't know so you can progress faster than everyone else.
  5. You must synchronize with God's timing, because God is counting down while you are counting up, and being out of sync means missing what He has prepared.

Key Distinctions

ColdLukewarmBurning
State of heartHas not yet received the fire of GodHas received the Word but chosen circumstances over GodFully yielded and on fire for God
God's responseGod knows how to set this person on fireGod spits this person outGod is ready to pour into this person
Readiness to receiveReady to be prepared to receiveBlocks the flow of God's blessingReady to receive what God has
The dangerNone — position is clearChosen the opinion of doctors, circumstances, and situations above everything God ordainedNone — position is active and open
NoiseJoy
What it isRaw sound — undirectedThe intention and purpose behind the noise
On its ownJust noise — no inherent spiritual weightThe quality that makes noise prophetic
God's desireGod wants noise — He is not like a neighbor who says you're too loudGod wants the noise to be joyful — positive and intentional
Heaven's realityHeaven is filled with unceasing noiseEvery thought of God triggers a sea of joyful sound
PraisePrayer
What it isA prophetic act declaring the outcome before it comesThe protocol of initiation for what you have already prophesied
TimingComes first — proceeds prayerFollows the prophetic declaration
Its functionProphesies your way out of a situationActivates the steps toward what has already been declared
ExampleMoses declared the Egyptians would be seen no more before he prayedMoses then stretched his hand over the Red Sea after declaring the outcome
Counting UpCounting Down
Who does itHuman beings — measuring how long they have livedGod — measuring how much time remains to accomplish His purpose
DirectionFrom birth forwardFrom the appointed end backward
What it measuresAge and experienceThe speed at which you are completing your assignment
The implicationCreates a false sense of unlimited timeCreates urgency — your days are numbered and God is tracking your speed
Divine SpeedHuman Speed
SourceRevelation knowledge — knowing what others don't knowNatural effort, ability, and circumstance
How it's accessedSynchronizing with God's timing and the propheticPraying, giving, serving — without necessarily being in sync with God's move
ResultYou are already in position before the world wakes upYou can do everything right but still miss what God has prepared
Biblical exampleElijah declaring the sound of rain before he even prayedServants who looked toward the sea and saw nothing
ProphecyPrayer
OrderFirst — declares what is comingSecond — initiates the steps toward what was declared
FunctionThe answerThe protocol
Biblical exampleMoses declared Israel would see the Egyptians no moreMoses then asked God what to do and was told to stretch his hand
Relationship to divine speedProphecy puts you in the right lane before the world sees itPrayer without prophecy can leave you out of sync with God's timing

The Prophetic Nature of Praise

  • Praise is a prophetic act — it is celebrating what God has already done and declared before it is visible to the natural eye.
  • The inability to praise God in difficulty reveals an absence of foresight into the mind of God over your situation.
  • The evidence of true faith is excitement for something your neighbor cannot yet see.

"When people cannot shout, they cannot stand, they cannot be excited, it means they don't have foresight insight on the mind of God on the workings of God for their life."

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The Danger of Lukewarmness

  • A cold person can be set on fire by God; a burning person is ready to receive from God — but a lukewarm person is in the most dangerous position of all.
  • Lukewarmness is not passive indifference — it is an active choice to elevate the opinion of circumstances above the mind and purpose of God.
  • God spits out lukewarm people because a lukewarm person cannot receive what God has.

"Somebody that is lukewarm is a very dangerous person. Because it is somebody that has received the word of God, but they have chosen the opinion of their doctor, they have chosen the opinion of their situation, they have chosen the opinion of their circumstances above the thoughts above the ideas above the mind, above everything that God has ordained for them."

Praise in the Land of the Living

  • You are alive because God is not finished with you — to be cast down is to misunderstand the significance of still being here.
  • The saints who have died would give anything for one moment in a living body to praise God.
  • Praise God in the land of the living as a declaration that He is not done with you and that His purpose is still unfolding.

"You are cast down because you don't understand that He's done with you. God has not been done with you. God is not finished with you. If you are nothing to do here, what I've taken you home."

Satan's Strategy Against Praise

  • The number one weapon the devil uses against you is to hinder you from praising God — because he knows praise is prophecy.
  • When you praise God, you are prophesying your way out of the situation, and the enemy's hold over you is broken.
  • Paul and Silas's praise in prison was not comfort — it was a prophetic act that physically shook their chains loose.

"Why does the devil not want you to praise God? Because he knows when you praise him you're prophesying. When you praise in your professing, you already know your out of the situation."

Speaking Into Your Destiny

  • Your words are creative — by your words you are justified or condemned, and your spoken declarations form your reality.
  • When you are bound and you say "I am free," freedom begins. When you are sick and you say "I am well," healing begins.
  • Choosing to praise, choosing to prophesy, and choosing to declare the goodness of God over your life are acts of sovereign spiritual will.

"By your words you shall be justified or condemned. By your words, you shall create your reality."

Confusing the Enemy Through Praise

  • Confusion is not sent to the devil through declarations — it is sent through the testimony that his attacks produce more praise, not less.
  • When demonic agents report back that the person they attacked is now praising God, the strategy to continue the attack collapses.
  • Jesus purposely allowed Lazarus to die so that raising him would send confusion both into hell and to every person who thought they knew the limits of His power.

"Are you sure we attacked them? Because what I hear there is they are praising him. So we might as well stop the attack because we are making them praise him more."

Praise Through Revelation

  • Praise without revelation is empty — you must know what you are doing and why, so that your praise carries the weight of understanding.
  • When you praise God with revelation, you actively scatter the forces aligned against you in seven different directions.
  • When you praise God without a visible reason, the enemy knows you have tapped into the divine and that your humanity is being swallowed up by divinity.

"If you praise God without revelation, you're wasting time. You need to know that you know what you're doing."

The Nature of Joyful Noise

  • Noise is simply sound — but joyful noise is sound with divine intention and prophetic purpose behind it.
  • Heaven is filled with unceasing joyful noise; the seraphim crying "holy, holy, holy" are shouting, not whispering — it is a passionate competition of worship.
  • Everything in worship builds toward one place — noise — because Satan's strategy is to silence you, and you are designed to be the sound that drowns him out.

"Noise is just noise. But the joy! You ask what is going on but God knows where that came from! That is because I've been on just came! I receive."

The Foundation of Praise: Love

  • Even speaking in the tongues of angels without love produces nothing — love is the substance that gives praise its power.
  • What is lacking in empty noise is love and passion for God — when that love enters you, you are never without a reason to praise.
  • Love is what tunes you in — once that understanding progresses in you, the heavy days lose their hold.

"Even if I speak in the tongues of angels and I have no love, I am nothing. It means I am empty. What is lacking in your noise is the love and the passion for God."

Understanding Divine Speed

  • Everything in life is measured by speed — your age, your growth, your spiritual progress, and your proximity to your God-ordained destination are all being measured.
  • Divine speed does not come because you forced something — it comes because you know something others do not know, enabling you to progress faster.
  • God is counting down the numbered days of your life while you are counting up — synchronizing with His timing is what closes that gap.

"Divine speed is a product of knowing something that others don't know that allows you to go faster and to progress quicker than everybody else."

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Spiritual Lanes and the Cost of Being Out of Sync

  • Moving at the wrong speed for your lane causes spiritual accidents — going too slow in a fast lane and too fast in a slow lane both carry consequences.
  • Many believers have overstayed certain seasons of life — still moving at 25 miles per hour on a road they were meant to leave five years ago.
  • You can give well, pray well, and serve well, yet still be completely out of sync with what God is doing — and in that state, you will miss what He has prepared.

"You can so well, you can give well, you can pray well, but you can be out of sync with what God is doing. You can do all those things perfectly, but at the same time be out of sync with everything that God is doing and you end up missing what God has prepared for you."

The Purpose of Prophecy and Prophetic Speed

  • The prophetic declares what no one can see, so that you can enter the right lane and begin running before the rest of the world even knows the road is open.
  • Prophecy proceeds prayer — prophecy is the answer, and prayer is simply the protocol of initiation for what has already been declared.
  • Elijah heard the sound of abundant rain before a single drop had fallen and before he had even prayed — this is divine speed: you declare the outcome before the evidence arrives.

"Prophecy is the answer to prayer. Prayer is simply the protocol of initiation of what you have prophesied."


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Key Definitions

Praise — A prophetic act of celebrating what God has already ordained, declaring the outcome of a situation before the evidence is visible.

Divine Speed — Moving at the speed God has ordained for you to accomplish your assignment, accessed not through effort but through revelation knowledge that others do not possess.

Lukewarmness — The active choice to receive the Word of God while elevating the voice of circumstances, doctors, and situations above everything God has ordained — the most spiritually dangerous position a person can occupy.

Joyful Noise — Sound with divine intention; noise is the raw material, and joy is the purpose behind it that makes it a prophetic and spiritual weapon.

Synchronization — Aligning yourself with God's timing and speed so that you are already in position for what He is doing before the rest of the world perceives it.

Prophecy — The declaration of what no one can yet see, which precedes prayer and positions you to enter the right lane before it is revealed to everyone else.


Key Takeaways

  • Praise is prophetic, not reactive — Praising God before you see the outcome is evidence of foresight into the mind of God, and it is this very act that releases your deliverance.
  • Lukewarmness is the most dangerous spiritual state — It is not ignorance but active preference of circumstances over God's Word, which makes the person unable to receive what God has.
  • Satan's first target is always your praise — Because praise is prophecy, silencing your praise is how the enemy traps you in the situation and prevents the manifestation of your breakthrough.
  • Divine speed is accessed through revelation, not effort — You can do everything right spiritually and still be out of sync; what closes the gap between where you are and where God is taking you is knowing what He knows.
  • Prophecy proceeds prayer — You do not pray your way into a declaration; you declare first, and prayer becomes the activation step for what has already been prophesied over your life.

Reflection Questions

  1. When your circumstances are at their worst, does your praise increase or decrease — and what does that reveal about whether you are operating with foresight into God's mind?
  2. In what area of your life are you still on a 25-miles-per-hour road that God called you to leave years ago — and what is keeping you from accelerating into the lane He has prepared?
  3. Are you doing all the right spiritual things — giving, praying, serving — but still feeling out of sync with what God is doing? What would it look like for you to align with His speed rather than your own effort?
  4. Has your praise become conditional — activated by provision, health, or visible results rather than by the revelation that God is not finished with you? What would it cost you to praise Him right now without any visible evidence?
  5. Where in your life do you need to prophesy first and pray second — declaring the outcome before you have seen it — and what is preventing you from making that declaration today?

Prayers and Declarations

Opening Prayer

"Father, we thank you in the name of your Son, Jesus, for the privilege, for the opportunity, and the grace you have given us to be in your presence. Lord, you love this first. You chose this first. You called this first. We created us and brought us back unto yourself. Lord, we humble ourselves under your mighty hand. We ask you for mercy, we ask you for forgiveness. We ask you for purification. That Lord, you be glorified amongst us beyond our errors and our mistakes. Father, we thank you for your Son, Jesus, who by His precious blood our iniquities, our sins, our shortcomings, are been blotted out. And by that same blood you have given us the ability to become your children. Lord we pray that the blessing and the attributes and the things that come with being your children may we receive all that today in the name of Jesus. May we be changed forever. Simply because of what you have done, not because we can do anything. May you be glorified even this morning. We know that a divine change, a divine shift, is coming to us. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, somebody shall glory."

Tell your neighbor:

"I choose to praise God. I choose to praise God. I choose to prophesy. I choose to prophesy. I choose to declare upon my life. I choose to declare upon my life. The goodness of God. The goodness of God."

"I'm here to speak to somebody that is entering into divine speed. May you be activated into divine speed. May you award speed the fuel, the engine. That will carry you into your next dimension. We are going somewhere. We are going somewhere. We are going somewhere."


Scripture References

  • Revelation 3:16 — "So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." (KJV)
  • Psalm 116:9 — "I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living." (KJV)
  • Revelation 12:11 — "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death." (KJV)
  • Matthew 12:37 — "For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned." (KJV)
  • Psalm 22:3 — "But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel." (KJV)
  • 1 Corinthians 13:1 — "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." (KJV)
  • 1 Kings 18:41 — "And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain." (KJV)
  • 1 Kings 18:42 — "So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees." (KJV)
  • Ecclesiastes 9:11 — "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." (KJV)
  • Psalm 90:12 — "So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." (KJV)
  • Exodus 14:13
  • Genesis 6 — God's instruction to Noah to build the ark.

Golden Nuggets

"Praise is a prophetic act, celebrating what has already been done."

"The louder your amen, the greater the blessing. So many people are in their problems because their problems are greater than their praise."

"A child of God is always in season."

"You confuse the devil through praise. This is the ultimate confusion."

"The breath in your lungs is a weapon."

"Divine speed is a product of knowing something that others don't know that allows you to go faster and to progress quicker than everybody else."

"God is counting down, you are counting up. You need to be synchronized with the time of God."

"Prophecy is the answer to prayer. Prayer is simply the protocol of initiation of what you have prophesied."

"When you start enjoying and praising God and enjoying the presence of God without any reason, he knows you have tapped into the divine. Your humanity is being swallowed up by divinity."

"When you praise God, God is saying He's ready. If I don't praise God, I'm saying Satan bring it on."


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