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Prophetic Endurance

A Carved Table by the Carpenter

So we're walking through the wheat field right now with Jesus. It is not really a temptation to follow his example, it is a necessity. When he eats, we eat. There is spiritual food in abundance. Who prepared this feast, you might ask. 

I shall live and enlighten

the dark with food and wine,

new each day—a carved table

at the elaborate end of time.

 --Emily Isaacson

Do I feel I deserve to eat? This is a question someone with an eating disorder like anorexia might ask. They often feel too undeserving to eat. They feel they must starve as a result. Yet Jesus is as kind as an eating disorder counsellor to us. He knows food might be short right now; even more reason why he wants to teach us to eat spiritual food.

In the Chronicles of Narnia, there was a feast table set each day at the end of the world, where Prince Caspian and his sea-mates ventured to in The Dawn Treader. It was the golden-haired empress who set the table each day. She eventually became Prince Caspian's wife, and Prince Rillian's mother. They are shooting the story of Prince Rillian right now in Hollywood, in the movie The Silver Chair. It is the Empress who is killed by a serpent at the beginning of the movie. There is something here.

Divination is like a serpent. Divination runs contrary to the prophetic. If you're not sure what the difference is, compare it to someone dropping off your newspaper, or someone getting in your mailbox and reading your private mail. If someone did that you would have them arrested. Although it was popular in the 80's and 90's to "read someone's mail" when giving them a prophetic word, we are now in the age of social distancing. We might be infringing on someone's privacy and frequently do, if we come up with any personal information about them. It's tempting if you're a prophetic type to "get information," but it's not Biblical. It seems reasonable to want to be a good judge of character and get the low down on people in your church or neighborhood. But is it really fair to them? What we really want to say is "What Jesus thinks of you is . . ." I like to select a Scripture that relates to the person, and see if that resonates with them. This is giving them The Good News in a way they can see related to their life or present circumstance. Otherwise we might as well say, "What I really think of you is . . ." The essential difference is between being "nice" and being "beautiful and true", as C.S. Lewis once put it. There is little time for the prophets in your life to prophesy lies, by just being "nice".

The word divination comes from the same root as the word "Python" originally, according to my two daily prophets--husband and wife team Russ and Kitty at www.fathersheartministry.net. (If you want a daily prophetic word sent to your inbox, check what they have to offer. Although I might be writing here frequently to encourage you, I don't want you to be discouraged if I miss something, so check out the other prophetic people on this site too.) A python squeezes the life out of its prey little by little until it kills it. Don't let what is happening in life squeeze the life out of you. This is so gradual you might not even notice it.

Who are the prophets and who called them out? Although pastors are called, trained, and appointed by the church and church denominations, prophets seldom are. They are appointed throughout the Old Testament in the Bible by God alone. In the New Testament you rarely see an appointed prophet because Jesus is considered a priest and prophet who lets us all share in his ministry. Although pastors would like to appoint reputable prophets in their churches to give commendable prophetic words, they are prophetic types, and often what I call "free radicals." If the prophetic people you know seem out of control, then consider talking to a prophetic "antioxidant". 

There are nutrients to be given out as bread here. The prophetic is the Word of God, activated. Consider those who would feed us, even if they be pastors, functioning in the prophetic gifting as they call us out to our various gifts and ministries, and let's partake.

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Prophetic Moments

Waiting for Jesus.

Listening to the Holy Spirit.

Urged to act by power not our own.

Worshipful Postures

Hold your hands out.

Keep your candle lit.  

Worship every day.

Pray for others. 

 

 

 

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