Is There a Prophet in Your Life?
PROPHETIC WORD
IS THERE A PROPHET IN YOUR LIFE?
God’s blue print to prophecy, Proverbs 29: 18, states “Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint” (NIV), “Where there is no vision [no redemptive revelation of God], the people perish” (AMP).
In Matthew 4: 4, “But He replied, it has been written, Man shall not live, be upheld and sustained by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God”.
In the Old Testament book of Genesis 3: 8, Adam and Eve heard the Voice of the Lord walking in the garden in the cool of the day which was a regular sight and a normal occurrence which did not call attention to any usual event because this was their lifestyle.
The decision by Adam and Eve to begin listening to the serpent changed the dynamics of a life filled with revelation, purpose, destiny and influence over all creation as provided for by God.
This paradigm shift from hearing God’s voice to the serpent’s presented new challenges Adam and Eve were unprepared for. Had they known that contact with God’s voice was the height of man’s identity an experience likened to one eaves dropping on what heavens angels mused about a mysterious position occupied by man in the heart of the Creator as described in
Psalms 8:4-8, “What is man that you should think of him, / the son of man that you should care for him, and that thou visits him? Yet you made him [i.e., man] a little lower than Elohim (that is God Himself).You made him ruler over the works of your hands; You put everything under his feet: all flocks and herds,
and the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas” (AMP, NIV).
God who has no equal (Isaiah 43:10-14), yet He decided to reveal Himself and His majesty to man by speaking with man daily as a man speaks with His own son.
The voice of God stayed silent from Adam’s fall until Noah, and afterwards stayed silent again until Abraham. After Joseph the voice of the Lord stayed silent again until Moses in Exodus 3: 4 at the burning bush on mount Horeb (also called Sinai). After the death of Moses, God raised Joshua and other prophets as His voice to the people at desperate times from the book of Judges until now Ephesians 4:11, and I Thessalonians 5: 20.
God commanded Moses in Exodus 25 to build a tabernacle so He could dwell among His people. He made sure Moses built the tabernacle according to the pattern he saw in the mountain, Hebrews 8: 5. The most fascinating revelation in Israel’s worship and relationship with God was not the tabernacle; it was God speaking to them through His voice.
In Deuteronomy 4: 12, “And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the voice of the words, but saw no form; there was only a voice” (AMP). The writing of the 10 Commandments on tables of stone was not the original intent for God’s relationship with Israel for He looked forward to the day when He could have a two way conversation with humans which is the ultimate life God intended when He said in Genesis 1: 26b-27, “Let us make man in our own image after our likeness”.
After Israel rejected this two way conversation with God in Exodus 20:19-22, the prophets became God’s best alternative to reveal things to people, Amos 3: 7 says, “Surely the Lord God will do nothing (KJV) or indeed, the Sovereign Lord never does anything until he reveals his plans to his servants the prophets (AMP).
Today, God wants to speak His plans as in Jeremiah 29:11 to you of goodness, mercy and blessings. But wait a minute; is there a prophet in your life through whom He can reveal His counsel to you?
