It's Time to Partner with Your Prophetic Words
This post is for you if you have experienced any of the following:
You have received promises from God that have yet to be fulfilled
You keep receiving prophetic words but have yet to see them come to pass
You feel stuck and unsure if you are missing something when it comes to your destiny and purpose
If any of the above sounds familiar, keep reading because this may be a key to help you.
This post is for you if you have experienced any of the following:
You have received promises from God that have yet to be fulfilled
You keep receiving prophetic words but have yet to see them come to pass
You feel stuck and unsure if you are missing something when it comes to your destiny and purpose
If any of the above sounds familiar, keep reading because this may be a key to help you.
We see throughout the Bible where God has chosen to do nothing on earth unless He partners with man to help Him bring it forth. All the way back from Adam till the present day, God is constantly calling men and women to partner with Him in His purposes and plans.
You are God’s delegated authority here on Earth to do mighty things.
If you are a Christian and love God, you have the same opportunity to be able to partner with God today as all of the mighty heroes throughout scripture. What an amazing honor and privilege! What some people forget is that not only does God want to work through you to do the big things but He also wants to do the same when it comes to the personal destiny and call on your life.
God wants to partner with you for your prophetic destiny! This is where many people fall prey to a common pitfall when it comes to seeing their prophetic words come to pass. They think it’s all just going to happen without any participation on their part. They sit looking out the windows of their lives looking for the prophetic destiny delivery truck to roll up to their door and unload it into their waiting arms. It’s a beautiful, wonderful, picture but it runs contrary to how we see people operating when they receive a word from God in the Bible. In fact, more destinies have been lost from this approach to God’s voice and promises than almost any other tactic of the enemy.
An example is Moses when He heard God’s voice. He had to leave what he knew to confront Pharaoh and bring deliverance to the Israelites. Every time God came to Him, there were instructions that he needed to follow and carry out in order to partner with God for their deliverance. Now imagine if Moses didn’t respond but instead stayed home. If he heard that God wanted to bring deliverance to the nation of Israel but did nothing to partner with God on it?
In this season, God is calling His children that hear His voice to shake off this lie and step into a position where instead of asking the question “When will my prophetic word come to pass?” Will change it to a much better question of “How can I partner with God’s prophetic word over my life?” The first question positions you as simply an observer and “taker”. The second question positions you into a place of action and also inviting God to speak to you further and in greater detail about how YOU can move forward in your destiny.
The takeaway from this post is the following:
You are God’s delegated authority on Earth!
God wants to partner with YOU
Ask God “How can I respond and partner with your Word?"
Be Prepared to Listen and Be Obedient to What You Hear No Matter How Small or Seemingly Insignificant/
Sincerely,
John Harke Team
Supernatural Provision
Supernatural provision isn’t a revelation of my own goodness, but a revelation of His grace. I believe we desperately need to reconcile this truth within our own experiences.
Today I want to briefly look at a well known incident in the life of the prophet Elijah. Although the prophet’s task was extremely confrontational, his primary task was to reconcile the nation of Israel back to God. Yet after a great victory at Mt. Carmel and the answer to prayer for rain, we find the prophet in a place where none of us should be. He felt threatened by a wicked Queens words and when any of us feel unsafe, like Elijah, we naturally find somewhere where we can regain some kind of control.
Supernatural provision isn’t a revelation of my own goodness, but a revelation of His grace. I believe we desperately need to reconcile this truth within our own experiences. Certainly we are to partner with the Lord in our economic obligation to give.
I want to briefly look at a well known incident in the life of the prophet Elijah. Although the prophet’s task was extremely confrontational, his primary task was to reconcile the nation of Israel back to God. Yet after a great victory at Mt. Carmel and the answer to prayer for rain, we find the prophet in a place where none of us should be. He felt threatened by a wicked Queens words and when any of us feel unsafe, like Elijah, we naturally find somewhere where we can regain some kind of control.
What happened afterwards is, this powerful prophet isolated himself from anyone who would have stood with him and the Lord. When we disconnect from the very people we are supposed to reconcile, we can easily develop thoughts that are inconsistent from who we are and who the Lord is. This makes us victims to our own self loathing. We have no one to champion us because we have cut ourselves off.
The problem with the prophet was that he took everything personally, which in turn left his soul very fragile. When he did that, the message of reconciliation was replaced by a message of self centeredness. Yet, in all that the Lord graciously provided for him, by giving him food when the prophet desired to die. Twice the angel of the Lord fed the prophet when the prophet was pleading to take his life. The next thing we find is him in a cave and the Lord asking Elijah “what are you doing here?” What’s amazing here is that the Lords sovereignty provided the food and strength to get there and then asked “why is he there?”
I believe there’s something we can learn from the prophet’s experience, and that’s yes, the Lord does provide, but provision isn’t always the endorsement upon our lives that we are in the right place. Provision is an endorsement from the loving care of a good Father, not necessarily our obedience.
As a father and grandfather, I give my children their necessities unconditionally, because I deeply desire to care for them. What kind of father would withhold the basic needs to sustain life? Elijah teaches us a valuable lesson of how we are to hear the Lord’s voice. Not just in how blessed we are by supernatural economic breakthroughs, but how obedient we are to reconcile nations, cities, and families back to a loving Father.
I’m certainly not going to disregard the wonderful support that the Lord has provided even when we were spiritually and emotionally weak. However, I want to learn to find His voice in the right place, not the wrong place. I want to see many come out of the cave of deception and feel the freedom of being loved by God.
Sincerely,
John Harke Team
How to bring Comfort
We must concentrate our behaviors towards our values and beliefs. Focusing our efforts upon our circle of influence and not upon things that we can’t control. Our primary core value should be knowing what the Lord cares about, and carrying the ministry of reconciliation to those around us. Never to impose our own will upon those we are to both lead and influence. This doesn’t mean that we dial down what the Lord has decreed nor accommodate what is outside of God’s will. It means that we grieve when the spiritual unity of the Lord’s people becomes fractured by values that are not consistent with scripture. We weep, along with Jeremiah, when a religion of revelry has been set up, instead of an authentic community and intimacy with God and with one another.
We must concentrate our behaviors towards our values and beliefs. Focusing our efforts upon our circle of influence and not upon things that we can’t control. Our primary core value should be knowing what the Lord cares about, and carrying the ministry of reconciliation to those around us. Never to impose our own will upon those we are to both lead and influence. This doesn’t mean that we dial down what the Lord has decreed nor accommodate what is outside of God’s will. It means that we grieve when the spiritual unity of the Lord’s people becomes fractured by values that are not consistent with scripture. We weep, along with Jeremiah, when a religion of revelry has been set up, instead of an authentic community and intimacy with God and with one another.
We feel the horror when self promotion has replaced genuine worship towards Yahweh. We’re not driven by appearances and religious disguises because what the Lords values have marked our hearts. We speak not to punish, but to reestablish authenticity, Kingdom demonstration and sound relationships. What proceeds out of our mouth must be anchored in a heart that is overflowing with beautiful thoughts. We love to pour out the God story and have learned to absorb ourselves in words that are pregnant with the touch of God. Understanding that having revelation, although vital, isn’t enough to transform us or anyone else. Because unless proper values are revolutionized, revelation is just more information.
Biblical values must govern how we behave. In other words, when we perceive correctly, we begin to grow correctly. For instance, all of us would love to be instantaneously delivered from our challenging circumstances. However, if values and beliefs are not in alignment with truth, we will not witness the supernatural provision that the Lord promises us. Certainly everyone desires to be successful? But do we have the internal fire that is hot enough to get us there?
Beloved, our God given vision is the most priceless commodity you and I have. Vision keeps you and I not only focused, but vision keeps us powerful. Without focus we restrict our effectiveness. So that we don’t get lured into a story that isn’t ours. Because those that foster evil designs will try to not only lure you and I into battles that we are not supposed to fight, but also into conversations that we aren’t suppose to participate in.
We must intentionally set godly boundaries in our relationships and never let anyone into a place in our hearts that belongs only to God. Nor becoming seduced by an inferior beauty or allowing others to turn our affections to that which is against His will. Because when we operate outside of God’s will we face the possibility of being outside His protection. However, when we place our worth upon what the Lord values, we will be empowered to purposefully persuade those within our circle of influence to believe what the Lord has said prophetically about them.
I believe that's what it means to bring comfort.
Sincerely,
John Harke Team
The Role of a Prophet In Present Times
The Future, Just the Beginning
It's an amazing experience when a prophet comes into your life and tells you about all the amazing things God has called you to do in your life. It can illuminate the dark areas of uncertainty and impart faith into you for what is to come. However this is only one of the many dimensions of what a prophet does. Sharing what is going to happen, about the future is just one drop in a vast ocean.
“The prophet doesn’t just fulfill the role of one who foretells the future, he or she fulfills the role of an elder at gate guiding a city and a nation. That function is so important to us simply because it's easy to get derailed in the mundane.”
The Role of a Prophet In Present Times
The Future, Just the Beginning
It's an amazing experience when a prophet comes into your life and tells you about all the amazing things God has called you to do in your life. It can illuminate the dark areas of uncertainty and impart faith into you for what is to come. However this is only one of the many dimensions of what a prophet does. Sharing what is going to happen, about the future is just one drop in a vast ocean.
If you are called to walk as a prophet, knowing this is essential for you to carry out your calling in its fullness. If you are one that receives from prophets and their ministries but you only see them as ones that tell you the future, a ton of important things get left on the table.
Prophets : An Elder Guiding a City and A Nation
In the times of Israel, prophets were voices that stood at the gates of the nations, leading entire groups of people into what God wanted to accomplish through them.
In I Samuel 4, the Bible speaks about Eli, who sat at the gate of the city and had ruled the nation of Israel for 40 years. His successor, Samuel did the same but also anointed other leaders such as Saul and David. The role of a prophet is to be a voice to a city and nation, a raiser of leaders and influencers, to tell them what the heart of God is in the season and how they should go in order to advance. Prophets are leaders.
It's easier to just be the prophet that tells people their future and destiny, but God is looking for those that are willing to step into the fullness of their calling and be a leader at the gate of their city and not just a voice.
Prophetic Passion and the Heart of a Prophet - the Breaker of Stagnation :
Humans are creatures of habit. Even the most creative, outside the box of us still have rituals and routines we do in our lives to help maintain a sense of balance, security and safety. Routine is a good thing, daily practices are one of the only ways that we progress as a society. However, good things can often become stumbling blocks on our way to the best things if we are not careful.
The mundane can kill innovation. What’s worse is that it can cause us to stand still when God is moving forward. We see it all around us in the lives of our friends, family and in churches all over the world. There are many of us that have the best of intentions but are trapped by the routine and monotony of just existing.
Prophets and the prophetic are called to break God’s people out of their ruts, their habits and routines turned to religion and move them to the cutting edge of what He is doing today. Prophets do this for individuals but there is an hour that is here where Prophets will stand on their mountains of influence and prophetically move entire groups of people forward into the next thing.
We must not only receive the words a prophet speaks, but the impartation that comes with it to break us our of the dryness and repetition of our current existence. Just like Elijah, prophets are called to prophesy an end to the drought in people’s and nation’s lives so they can step into the new.
The question we must ask ourselves during this exciting time is this: Will we choose to enter into the deeper realms of the prophetic to become a voice at the gate of our city and place of influence?
Sincerely,
John Harke Team
Largeness of Heart
Have we ever entertained the possibility of our hearts growing bigger? Receiving the capacity to take in what the Holy Spirit would lavish upon us if we just asked. This largeness of heart is what frees us from the monotony of everyday life. While disappointment shrinks the heart and hinders it from dreaming. A large heart is one that gives no place inside its core being for disappointment to live. This doesn’t mean that we don’t experience disappointment, it just means that because of the vastness of the heart we have more room to maneuver past any regrets. The larger our hearts are the more we can break the vicious cycle of addictions that plague our society and ourselves.
Have we ever entertained the possibility of our hearts growing bigger? Receiving the capacity to take in what the Holy Spirit would lavish upon us if we just asked. This largeness of heart is what frees us from the monotony of everyday life. While disappointment shrinks the heart and hinders it from dreaming. A large heart is one that gives no place inside its core being for disappointment to live. This doesn’t mean that we don’t experience disappointment, it just means that because of the vastness of the heart we have more room to maneuver past any regrets. The larger our hearts are the more we can break the vicious cycle of addictions that plague our society and ourselves. With a large heart, we will see others who are enslaved as victims. By seeing people this way it makes grace possible and we become less vulnerable to assumptions about their behavior.
However, there is another reason why we should desire a bigger heart, and that is to believe what Jesus says about us even when we think we have failed Him. When the heart is broken and undersized there doesn’t seem to be much space for truth to penetrate. When my heart has shrunk in volume because of my wrong behavior I don’t receive the message of God’s enormous love for me. That’s why Jesus asked Peter three times “do you love me?” Peter’s heart had diminished because of his denial and the Lord was enlarging the Apostle’s heart. Which speaks to us that in order to forgive ourselves, it takes a large heart.
Here we witness grace at work, imparting to Peter a heart to love God, his neighbor and himself. As I’m interacting with people across the world, especially those that have gone through horrific things and have triumphed in life. I can’t help but be aware that Jesus Christ bestowed upon them a heart that was large enough to overcome divorce, depression, poverty and even death. Which speaks to me that the real heroes are the people who have the most spacious heart, and have allowed God in. These heroes aren’t trapped inside by their emotions or their past, because of the enormity of their hearts they seem to have more energy for God and for others. They take upon themselves what others define as difficult and find ways to make life work. They use their imaginations to continue to be both creative and innovative. Because their hearts are large, there are no limitations to what God can accomplish through them. Patience and wisdom is the fruit of how vast their hearts are. They seem to possess a strength that pulls others into a range of opportunities.
Let us worship today and be thankful that He has given us a large heart, and that our reply would be “Lord, You know I love.”
Sincerely,
John Harke Team
