As you think so you are...

And so I dreamed...

I was in a house and a group of enemies pulled me outdoors. They then surrounded me and began shooting me with guns that were meant to shrink me and make me smaller...

Then the scene changed and I became a spectator watching myself from outside of my body (Although I didn't look like me). I was sitting in a church service, shaking and trembling from fear because I was so convinced I was small... I had a huge newspaper in front of me and I was hiding my face behind it...

I believed I was small and so I acted as though I was small, but the truth is that I wasn't small at all.

The truth is that the enemy has been telling the church that we are small for so long that we have begun to believe it. In fact, he's twisted the truth so badly that we think that believing the lie that we are small is humility! The name "Satan" means "Accuser", and in Revelations we are told that he is the accuser of the brethren...

The accuser of the brethren lost God's ear when Jesus ascended to the throne and so he came to the earth and gained the ear of the church. Now we accuse ourselves before God by believing the lies of the accuser that he tells us, and all the while we think that it's God telling us those things. The law (The testimony against us i.e. the newspaper I hid behind) empowered the accuser of the brethren, but once the law was taken away so was Satan's ministry of condemnation thrown out of Heaven.

So he came to the earth and has made the law his biggest weapon against the church. If he can get a little bit of law into our thinking, then he can derail our whole purpose on earth...

Condemned people don't look God in the eyes but rather keep their heads bowed from shame. Maybe this is why I've been religiously trained to bow my head, because deep down at the heart of who I am, I feel condemned and unworthy of God's affections. Maybe we were never meant to look down when we talk to God. Maybe the Devil has used the law to cut off our blood bought intimacy with the Father. I don't care if you bow your head, I do it too... I'm merely stating that it's a symptom of a much deeper problem that developed over church history...

If we are the ones that God is using for the expansion of His Kingdom on the earth, then wouldn't it make sense for the enemy to belittle us so that we lose our morale?

The truth is that if you feel small on the inside then you will behave small on the outside.

But I have news for you. You're not small. No, you're actually really potent. In fact, none other than God Himself lives within you. Dominion is yours and the Father's. You are right now reigning with Christ in Heavenly places.

Pride is believing anything that goes against what God has said about yourself. So when we view ourselves as small when God has called us His sons and daughters, it's not humility, it's just the opposite.

Church, arise! You have been set free!

Joining Wisdom and the Prophetic

So the other night...

I was in a dream like state and I was thanking God for the fact that He delivered me from my old views on the prophetic ministry, namely that it was basically a harsh and unloving ministry of rebuke. I used to rationalize my lack of love by saying that it was "loving" to tell the "truth". Anyways, I was thanking God that He delivered me.

Then as I was waking from this dream like state, I heard this sentence:
"All that I am, without wisdom, is all that I was never meant to be."

I believe this is a prophetic word to prophetic people. I believe God is saying that if we don't learn how to operate in His wisdom, then we will never truly be a prophetic people. I believe that if we don't learn a little tact, then we will disqualify ourselves from being His mouthpieces.

God is moving us into a season in the prophetic where the only voices that endure will be those whose words are "seasoned with salt".

"There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing." Proverbs 12:18

It's time the prophetic matured beyond judgment.

Hear what I'm saying: If you are a prophetic person and you want to fulfill your calling, then learn wisdom. If you don't learn wisdom, you will be a loose cannon and you will end up causing more damage than your ministry is worth.

A lot of descriptions of the prophetic leave you thinking that to be a prophet you have to see everything in black and white, you have to expose sin in others and basically do everything that the New Testament tells us not to do... Leave these concepts behind.

False prophets come and they violate almost every social courtesy in the name of declaring the "truth" without "compromise". Then, when they are rejected because they simply aren't nice people, they think it's persecution and therefore a validation of their ministry. Thus the cycle goes on and on... Beloved, this is the mark of a person operating under a false prophetic anointing. Your destiny may even be as a prophet, but unless you break free of this pattern, you will never fulfill it.

In the days to come, God will be merging wisdom into the prophetic.