Prophetic insight comes to us in many ways, often as revelation from the Lord or a prophetic word from an individual, conveying something greater than what we feel we deserve. While it is true that God’s ways are higher than even man’s best, the upward call is certainly not out of reach!

Prophetic insight “raises the bar” for us, like when God sends a word of encouragement that matures and moves us forward or when He breaks through barriers that have held us back with a sign, dream or vision.

Every day the Lord prophetically raises the bar of possibilities in the lives of individuals. Prophetically speaking, lives are aimed upward toward a standard Jesus set and the path He opened. Through Him, every man is able to come to the Father and obtain . . . beyond the scope of human possibility . . . “seated with Him in heavenly places.” Selah!

This is our goal: To be moved forward with a Kingdom mentality and a sure word of prophecy concerning God’s Kingdom; we therefore are increasingly moving in that Kingdom—till we all come . . . to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.”

Amen.

Ephesians 2:6 | 2 Peter 1:19 | Ephesians 4:13

Creative and artistic skills provide us with a glimpse of divine landscapes, heaven’s elegant blueprint. The Lord authors beautiful colors and form and we are grateful for the experience, thanks to those whose artistic gifting reveals spectacular images of heaven—here and now, on earth as it is in heaven!

The Lord gives new and fresh ideas to His people to stimulate artistic expression. Our hopes and dreams are based in God’s promise to improve the present, and inspire greater things for our future.

Love for His creation qualifies us to lead and our leadership is vitally connected to the present stream of creativity: “We have this treasure in earthen vessels, empowered by God Himself; we are his workmanship “before ordained” for good works which God created.” (2Corinthians 4:7)

Thank God for those called to it, created in Christ Jesus before the worlds were formed . . . created to create, artistic craftsmen of images from the Spirit, on display for His glory, heaven on earth!

Amen—Kingdom, come!

Exodus 25:8-9 | James 1:17| Ephesians 2:10 | 2 Corinthians 4:7

 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this.”  (Revelation 4:1)

The aged apostle John, exiled on Patmos for his faith, was entirely alone and heard a voice calling him upward where he would be shown things to come—things that must take place in the future. Heaven’s message to John was actually the Revelation of the Son of God, a powerful prophetic gift to every believer.

Today we hear the voice John heard and the same Spirit calls us to come up. Especially now, in this time, see to it that your spirit is strengthened. The soul makes demands of you, and the flesh even more so, but the voice of the Lord is heard in the heart, or spirit, of man. That call is always upward—always calling us higher.

Release your faith today concerning the good things in store for you. Prophetic unction is vital to fresh revelation of your inheritance. John heard the voice and was “immediately in the Spirit” . . . likewise, when you hear His prompting, understand that Jesus the prophet lives within you through the indwelling Holy Spirit and He is speaking. Receive what he says to you.

Amen.

Revelation 4:1-2 | Revelation 1:1, 9-11

But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. (1Corinthians 2:9-12)

We grow in relationship with Jesus and test our progress by the fruit produced as we live our lives according to the Lord’s revealed purposes for us; reaching beyond the surface we aim to see depth there.

God revealed to Abraham that He would place a distinctive mark upon his lineage, the fruit of his life. We belong to that same company, that lineage, and we too carry divine marking. We are set apart for exploits—more vision and a greater depth of capacity to love His creation as He does.

Our marking for this time is supernatural. Ezekiel described it . . . in a manner of speaking, a river is forming around us . . . with soaking waters that represent the new . . .  in the flood are both good and evil but like Abraham we are marked for blessing . . . a prophetic people . . . who follow hard after the Lord.

The Spirit searches! Profound days are just ahead.

Amen.

1 Corinthians 2:9-12 | Ezekiel 47 | Psalm 63:7-9

And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you.” (Genesis 22:5)

In the midst of trials the pressures that result become a voice – subtle at first, then more demanding that we conform to it. From experience we know that if we give in, or yield to that voice, for a minute or a day, the consequence is an increase in the pressure and its discrediting war against God’s Word as the voice of authority, the final word, in any trial.

So reverse that pressure—turn it back! Refuse to conform to it. Resist its demand to disbelieve. You, not the pressure, determine the boundaries! You say how it will be—you are the voice of authority! Speak to the mountain of pressure and “it” will obey you!

Faith speaks now . . . throughout the process, all along the way, at every crossroads . . . beginning to end. Faith extends out and over the trial with proofs of exactly where the ‘final say’ in the matter rests and predicting the desired result—Glory!

Our words spoken in faith are backed by divine power to preside over trials and stand guard against every enemy intruder. Jesus is the author—the beginning, and the finisher—the end, of our faith. He is our entrance as we begin, and He is amen, the last word! We are His voice . 

Go ahead, speak! Instead of waiting to see what the pressures will demand, speak and declare the end from the beginning—receive the end (desired outcome) of your faith.

Abraham said to the servants, the lad and I will return.

Amen—the end is better!

Genesis 22:5 | 1 Peter 1: 3-9 | Hebrews 10:38 | Hebrews 11:1 | Ecclesiastes 7:8 | Isaiah 46:10

Our personal deliverance may parallel that of the nation of Israel whose 400 years of bondage in Egypt actually began as a mission to rescue the patriarch Jacob and his small clan of seventy from famine, then evolved into history’s greatest story of mass deliverance, a nation of millions delivered in a day from slavery and hardship at the hands of their Egyptian masters.

It was not your typical rescue. Those held for so long were released suddenly, their tormentors sending them away with gold and silver—urging them to escape, insisting they leave immediately.

We are in a season like that now—a time of rescue; a time different than before and the difference is something you know. The mercy of the LORD is everlasting, His judgments certain; your season of waiting has changed to one of rescue, deliverance, and “a way out” plus abundance. God has intervened, doors that held us have opened, our souls flood with hope and the siege lifts to unveil a different future—a real class act!

“And they will dwell safely there, build houses, and plant vineyards; yes, they will dwell securely, when I execute judgments on those around them who despise them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God.” (Ezekiel 28:26)

Amen.

Psalm 119:156 | Isaiah 26:9 | Ezekiel 28:26

Thank God for the ministry of those intercessor-prophets who come along side of – even ahead of – God’s people to guard the path and clear the way. This ministry of the interceding prophet is often missing in the new religious order but thankfully more are coming to realize the value of this authentic gift. Selah! 

• “So Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build the house of God which is in Jerusalem; and the prophets of God were with them, helping them.” (Ezra 5:2, NKJV)

• “So the elders of the Jews built, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the command of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.” (Ezra 6:14 NKJV)

• “But prophesying is not for unbelievers but for those who believe.” (1Corinthians 14:22b)

Start at the beginning and cut away anything you will not need in the new season ahead. Having done that pruning, begin afresh with what you have, primarily because you cannot start with what you do not have. As you begin, embrace this ministry – the intercessor who often is also a prophet, and the prophet who always is an intercessor!

If your plan is to step forward and take new ground, you’re really going to need a prophet-intercessor with you, “riding shotgun” with spirit-prayer and prophecy declaring, “Kingdom of God—come! Will of God, be done!”

Hallelujah!

Amen!

Ezra 5:2 | Ezra 6:14 | 1 Corinthians 14:22b

We need the right people, in the mix — right gifts, right revelation, right timing. If one person is missing or tardy the result is less so we make it a matter of personal integrity to do our part, in the right place and on time!

Moses, the man who began as destiny’s child, surviving croc-infested waters in a basket of reeds, met the Lord in a bush that burned but was not consumed and ultimately stood as a deliverer. With the rod of God’s authority he confronted an ancient pagan system and its Pharaoh and received permission to lead the Israelites into the wilderness to worship. His demand to take Israelite livestock with them was refused but Moses steadfastly contended that their worship must be conducted God’s way, or not at all, “And even we do not know with what we must serve the Lord until we arrive there.” (Exodus 10:26)

No matter where you are right this minute and despite anything going on around you, and regardless of what is taking place that does not conform to what you envisioned, remember your inheritance of spiritual backbone from forerunners of the faith like Moses. Take the rod of God’s power in your hand and, before the Lord, maintain your personal integrity—do what He tells you to do. You may not fully know every detail now but when you arrive, you will.

Amen.

Genesis 22:8-14 | John 7:17 | Exodus 10:26 | Exodus 10

This year our lives will be changed from glory, to glory, by the Spirit of the Lord (2Corinthians 3:18). Changes today uproot embedded habits, uncover flawed behavior, bring to expression the very thing we would never do, and generally disturb the peace of an otherwise “normal” routine. Hallelujah!

Change helps rock the boat just enough to uncover—mistakes, and wrong attitudes that have ‘taken root’ cannot remain. Without change we cannot grow and without growth we will not mature. Look around you. The place of weakness, lack, or any negative influence means the element of truth is missing. Truth results in honesty, and honesty is gained as we look into the image we see in the mirror and respond according to the Spirit of Truth:

Amen.

2Corinthians 3:18

The patriarch Abraham was not weak in faith. Responding to God’s promise to give him a heir, Abraham did not consider two obvious realities—the deadness of his own aging body and his wife Sarah’s dead womb (Romans 4:19)

Make a list of everything in your life that is dead. Hold that list up to the Lord and pray . . . Lord, what will You do with this? . . . Will You restore function? . . . Will you breathe life into the deadness?

As with Abraham, the Lord’s presence has come dramatically—supernaturally! Time and difficulty may have obscured all hope but the promise is overriding every impossible physical limitations and the deadness of hardened, unbelieving hearts.

Once you hear Him, you’ll know what to do.

Amen.

Romans 4:19 | John 15:5-6