God is a God of
Order, therefore everything that He speaks or will speak is done with order.
This is true going back to the genesis of mankind. On each particular day of
creation, He orderly created the heavens and the earth. When He speaks, every
Word God speaks is spoken in order. This is why a prophet may receive a Word
from God, but has to wait the orderly time and season to bring it forth.
Otherwise, the Word will be spoken prematurely or from a prophet of whom God did
not intend to speak. Not every Word that is heard from God is to be spoken. As a
prophet you have to know if God wants you or another prophet to speak. Never be
eager to speak a Word to anyone! This is a trick in which the powers of darkness
uses to cause a prophet to be out-of-order. Wait until God speaks through you,
even if it means holding or pondering the prophetic word.
If the prophetic word is to
be spoken, it will come forth! This was the case with Jeremiah. The Word was so
alive within him that when he tried to hold it in, it was like fire within his
bones. However Ezekiel said he would stand watch to see what God wanted him to
speak to the people. Either way, what is spoken must be done in order.
Order also is seen among the
prophets. Seasoned prophets should be more wiser and more experienced in the
Prophetic Word. God uses more seasoned prophets who have not become
contaminated, to speak with clarity and accuracy the Word of God. However, God
can and often does call an unseasoned prophet to prophesy, as in the case of the
Prophet Amos, (who was not a prophet originally, but a fruit farmer) to speak
what He normally would give to a more seasoned prophet. Order in the prophetic
is determined only by God. God shifts that order sometimes to keep those who
are seasoned humble, and so that we will know that what we speak, we have no
authority to speak, and can have no idea what to say, unless God through us
speaks!
Then there are cases where
seasoned prophets are used to correct the errors of those who are new to the
prophetic mantle. When this happens, the unseasoned prophet should seek clarity
from God, and use the wisdom of those who no doubt have made the same or similar
mistakes as they have grown in the prophetic mantle. However, again when
seasoned prophets become arrogant and contaminated, God also will use unseasoned
prophets to correct them. All of it is about knowing that we are no more than
vessels and mouth pieces. Therefore none of us are "all that". I like to think
of it as being mail carriers. We only carry and deliver God's mail - not write
or create it. This in and of itself should keep us in divine prophetic
order.
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