The Seer anointing You May not See…
This revelation
came to me today as I meditated upon the call of God; especially the call of a
prophet. I do not claim to be one, but I'm continually learning and praying for
understanding from The Father about the cost involved in following Jesus. There
is a definite lifelong process involved in answering the call of God since we
are on the journey towards receiving the end of our faith-the full redemption
of our souls (1 Peter 1: 8-9).
My call to
serve is one that I received 42 years ago and still haven't totally grasped it
in its fullness. I
believe The Lord shared some insights with me today that I’d like to
share with you; that is, after I ‘tempered’ this download to be more suitable
for public consumption. How God deals with me may not be the way He deals with
you. However, I have learned that the
Father doesn’t play games when it comes to carrying His message and tending His
flock. He is very direct with me.
If you are
called to be a “prophet”, especially in these tumultuous days, you can expect
unexpected rebukes. They may come from other bona fide, authorized prophets
that may or may not even know you, a friend, a spouse, a pastor, or a total
stranger. The Father
We know that John the Baptist wore camel’s hair inside out. What we may not know or see is that camel’s hair is almost as prickly as a porcupine's: it’s not soft and silky like fox or rabbit fur. They too live in the desert but John chose camel’s skin and then turned it inside out! Most of the Jews hated him because of his weird characteristics. He was a desert dweller, ate bugs and wore unconventional garments. He consumed the very insect that attacks a budding harvest. That's what his ministry did too!
He didn’t fit the religious mold of what a prophet should look like and he went against the grain of the fabric so to speak. In fact none of Gods prophets fit a mold to one degree or another. Joseph had his garment stripped from him. Jeremiah landed in a smelly cistern totally soiling him and Isaiah lay on his side naked. For this reason, you won’t find many Elijah type prophets in some churches today. I believe the reason why is that they are different. One thing they have in common is they all carry an internal “scrub brush” that is two sided. What pricks them becomes part of their ministry and it pricks others. The Holy Ghost always checks their soul and spirit for impurities: impure motives, rejection issues, harshness, rebellion, pride, feelings of loneliness, and unworthiness-just to name a few. They are constantly processing and repenting for what God has to say about their experiences, will and feelings may be on a day to day basis.
On one hand,
they experience great waves of glory in the presence of God, but on the other,
their lives are often laced with great trouble. It seems that the consequences
of their service produces a contradiction of a promised end or result.
Repentance is not something they just preach-it’s something they live every day
of their lives! They can’t help but convey that same message of repentance in
one way shape or form. Therefore, they upset religious apple carts of any kind.
The pop
culture that has crept into much of the American church cannot and will not
tolerate prophets of this caliber. As a result, today’s prophets have to deal
with more rejection from intolerance to the message they carry. Prophets of God
do not preach a sugarcoated gospel nor do they promise the moon yet deliver a
moon pie. What they do promise is the Son! They preach God's eternal life
through repentance with faith towards God and deliver an uncompromising message
of holiness accompanied with the Spirit’s power and demonstration.
They are
often accused of being religious and legalistic but they are far from it. In
reality, they are holy: holy “as in different and set apart” from the rest of
the crowd. John wasn’t invited to preach in the synagogues. He was sent to
prepare the way and cried out to the lost sheep of Israel. As an end time
prophet, you may have to preach in places that no one else wants to go and that
are less glamorous but you are willing to do it. You’ve prayed the price!
You don’t
preach for pay because your message is not one that men will typically honor
that way. You’ve been stripped of your pride enough to go where He sends you
without script or purse.
Camel’s hair,
bugs, dust and simplicity… that was John’s life my friends; not a comfy life
free from adversity and not a closet filled with linen tunics or royal robes.
He was clothed in humility and lived a life of separation unto God. However, he
demonstrated great power to deliver the crowds who gathered to hear his
message. In the end he lost his head: no doubt this wasn’t an expected end. I
don’t think John cared a bit about it because he lost his life and pride in the
desert long before that incident. He dared not compromise the message built in
him from his mother’s womb. Sin or no sin, Herod or no Herod, guillotine or no guillotine
he had no life apart from God.
I believe
that is what Jesus is calling for in His end time army of prophets: sold out simplicity
with bravery. Are we willing to lose our heads for the gospel or would we
rather keep it intact along with our pride and selfish ambition?
The
preparation of an end time prophet is the most arduous of all. At times it will
send you running, screaming, crying, repenting, or hiding. Anyone in their
right natural mind would never ask to be a spokesman/ spokeswoman prophet of
God. That’s why so many quit in the “journey of process” because Jesus calls
for a crucified life. The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
You may have
a gift of prophecy and can preach the paint off the walls; you can move in
words of knowledge, discerning of spirits and even foretell the future. But
that does not make you an automatic prophet or a oracle of God that lives what
they preach.
Your
training will strip away from you everything you thought you knew to do and
there will be days you wish you could die. But on the other side of death to
self there is HIS resurrection life and power.
Don’t think
because you can give an accurate prophetic word or deliver a homiletically
correct sermon you are automatically designated an end time prophet. I wish it were
that simple! It’s only the beginning of the journey as a disciple.
The garments
you will and do wear will be that of humility. They won’t be hiding your pride
because it will be stripped from you already. Your humility will only conceal
the scars of thrashings you have received from the chastening of God as well as
the rejection of men. The scars won’t be any more putrid than Jesus’ were when
He rose from the dead. They will be spirit markers of a crucified life
illuminated by His Glory! As the Holy Spirit moves, you will uncover those scars
and others will be healed through your past pains, sins and rejections.
To be His end time mouthpiece in these last days won’t cost you some things; it will cost you everything. Selah
Painfully
but sincerely yours,
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