Are you Prophetic?

Are you prophetic?  It only takes 3 things.   And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?”  And I said, “I see an almond branch.”  Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.  Jeremiah 1:11-12. 

Jeremiah had just told God why he was not qualified to re-represent God’s voice.  He said he was too young and that He could not speak.  God replied that he did not have to fear being too young, and then God touched his mouth.  What perceived weakness in your life do you inform God that would disqualify you from speaking His word?  Let God address it and empower you in that weakness.  We need to be speaking what God is saying for us today.

There are at least 3 things to help you grow in your prophetic abilities.  Hearing, Seeing, And God’s “watching to perform”.   After God touched Jeremiah’s tongue which empowered Him to do what God wanted.  He ask Jeremiah a question.  “What do you see?” asked God.  Jesus often said “let him who has ears to hear, hear what the Spirit is saying.  When we become children of God, he equips us with spiritual ears that are able to hear God.  Jesus said my sheep know my voice and they follow me.  Maybe, it is sometimes unclear for you, what God is speaking.  Ask God to help you hear what He is saying.  He is ready to make Himself known to you.  The beginning step in the prophetic is to tune your ears to the same words and frequency that God is operating on.  He whispers and leads, not loud, desperate, or controlling.

Then it is important to share what you are seeing.  Jeremiah saw an almond branch.  What is important at this stage is to just share exactly what you are seeing.  Do not try to figure it out or reason what it could mean.  Just share exactly what you are imagining in your mind.  Not every impression is from God, but the ability to see is the starting point.   We need to show grace to one another as we are learning to “see” what God is doing.  We may get it wrong sometimes, don’t stop trying.  Allow other believers to help guide you in your hearing and listening. 

I was on a mission trip one time in Honduras.  We showed the Jesus movie to over 1000 people in a large field.  At one point during the movie, we stopped to pray for people.  The people would come to us just to have us say a quick prayer for them.  They spoke Spanish and we had no interpreter with us.  We just prayed as best as we could for the need that they may have.  One gentleman came forward and I “saw” that he wanted Jesus to move in his life.  I placed my hand on his stomach and prayed for release of the Holy Spirit, remembering Jesus words “out of you shall flow rivers of living water, and by this he meant the Spirit.”  The next day the gentleman was in church and wished to testify.  I started getting a little prideful, remembering that I had prayed for him.  Then he pointed to me in the congregation and mentioned that I prayed for him.  He said, “he placed his hand on my stomach, but there was something that he did not know.  I had a stomach virus. God healed me when he touched my stomach”.   I was happy he was healed, but that is not what I prayed for :{.  God used my obedience in what I saw.

But that brings me to the final point.  God performs or “brings about the purpose” for His word.  Our responsibility is to see, hear and obey.  God will accomplish what He desires through our obedience.  When Moses touched the Red Sea with his staff, God parted the waters.  When Jesus touched the blind man’s eyes with clay, God healed the man.  When Peter prayed for Cornelius, God poured out his spirit on the “gentiles”.  God loves to finish His work when we begin in obedience.

You can be a part of God’s plan on the earth.  God has NO superstars, He does have obedient children. When have the Son, then, you are truly children of God.

Father, help us to hear what you are saying and asking of us.  Father, help us to see what you are doing on the earth and what you are doing in Heaven.  Father, help us to be bold to act on what you are doing.  Perhaps someone may be saved, healed, set free or comforted?

Preach boldly and walk humbly.