This morning 12 pastors met for a wonderful time of prayer. Last night the elders met with some group leaders to hear from them what God was doing. Last week we were visiting our daughter and some friends in England. Before that, while I have been busy not blogging, we had a wonderful time with some prophets at Gullbotn. In all these gatherings or encounters with different people, I am hearing the same thing: God is at work!

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In the book of Acts Paul is speaking about the Jews (13:27) who had the word of prophets read to them every Sabbath, but who didn’t hear the voice of the prophets. They were hearing without hearing. The word was read to them, but they didn’t hear God speaking to them through the word of the prophets. They didn’t hear the voice of the prophets. Because they didn’t hear the voice of the prophets they actually fulfilled their words in a negative way.

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The last few days I have been sharing some insight to the prophetic ministry and anointing by the Holy Spirit. The prophetic Spirit of God is present among the people of God everywhere. There is a surge of prophetic activity in these days. The prophetic Spirit is moving powerfully in all the corners of the earth, among all kinds of people, in many different ways.
I have been stirred in my heart this year by the prophetic anointing in a new way. It has caused me to spend more time with God and to be aware of his presence in everyday situations. I love having God speak to me through his Word in the Bible. I am excited when the Spirit gives me dreams and visions. I enjoy being with people overflowing with the life of God, they make me realise that I am spending time with God, even during menial tasks and my daily work. It is wonderful that we actually can spend all our time with God. We
can live our entire life in his presence, walk with him, talk with him,
enjoy his company at all time everywhere!

The
anointing brings about an exactness in the prophetic ministry in obeying the
word of God and expressing in life the very heart of God. The anointing brings
us into a first-hand touch with God, like seeing God face to face. This is how
the life of Moses was summed up: “There has never been another prophet like
Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face (Deut. 34:10). When we enter into the
place of direct spiritual knowledge of God, we cannot, under any consideration
be a person who compromise. When we have seen the Lord we cannot for any
advantage at all deviate from what has been shown to our heart.

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We can in a
general way accept all the knowledge of biblical teaching or doctrine. We may
understand in a general way our dependence of the Holy Spirit. We may in a
general way accept that without him we can do nothing. We may in a general way
believe that it is necessary for the Holy Spirit to do everything – initiating,
leading, governing, and being the power and inspiration of everything. But the
reality is that this general acceptance of these biblical truths of the work of
the Holy Spirit is not sufficient for living in the reality of it. Actually,
this is a matter of life-long learning high lightening our need for revelation.
Everything must be given by revelation.

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The
prophetic ministry is totally dependent on the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit brings detailed knowledge of and insight into
God’s purpose. This
follows naturally from the fact that only the Holy Spirit of God has the full
and detailed plan in view and can make everything true in principle to the
intention of God. When we study the Scripture we discover the wonderful thing
that when we go back to the simplest, earliest, the most elementary expression
of divine things in the word of God, everything there is true in principle to
all that follows later in greater fullness. God has kept everything true to
principle: however fully a thing is developed the principle is there and we
cannot get away from that. The more developed teaching of the New Testament is
always true to the original principle of that matter as it was first
introduced. The superstructure of the New Testament is in every way of
principle true to the foundation of the Old Testament. God is still working
according to his original purpose!

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The
prophetic ministry is to hold things to the full thought of God, to his
original intention, to his plan and purpose, as it centres on the sovereign
will of God. Therefore the prophetic ministry may be seen as a reactionary
thing. We find often in the Scripture that the prophets arose as a reaction
from God to the course and drift of things amongst his people. They called the
people back to God, back to the Law and the basic foundation of the covenant
people. They declared anew the will of God. They pronounced anew the mind of
God as it already had been done by prophets before them. The prophets always
brought into clear view again the thoughts of God.

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The
function of the prophet is throughout the Scripture portrait as that of
revelation that brings restoration. They all spoke on that subject (Acts
3:21-24), and restoring the people to their rightful place in God was their
main function during their lifetime. The prophetic ministry is always related
to the need for the recovery of God’s full thought as to his people and the
entire creation that has been brought into disharmony because of the effect of
sin.

When we look at the situation in the church or
even in the world, we realize that it is not in line with the eternal plan and
purpose of God. When we search the Scripture we come to understand by the
enlightening of the Spirit that God has intended something better for the world
and even for the church than what we see at the moment.

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