I love the prophetic and how God moves in our generation for such a time and season. God is beginning to move our generation to becoming the receiver of a prophetic dream to being the giver to the next in line.
I've tried to research on may voices today and its a confirmation that God is now preparing our generation to equip our own generation and the next for the next few years. Our words years ago stirs us into action and many are responding accordingly for such a call. Imagine like the days of Isaiah when God calls forth a vision for what was to come. Isaiah became a voice that triggered the desire in the nation of Israel for revival. How about Jeremiah proclaiming the coming days of retribution where everyone else were talking about greater things. But many of us are like Jonah, fearing the unknown and stubborn to complete the task God has prepared for us. After so many heartaches and burnouts, it's high time to accept my own reality - the fear of retribution when we neglect the commissioning God placed before us.
Let me share to you my recent learning on how God sometimes uses our situation to bring into light the purposes of His will. Here are a few things I am learning right now:
1. Being called is a hard choice to bear - many of us who are working in the marketplace believes that we are called for something bigger or better. We have this notion that for us to bring into completion the perfect will of God in our lives, we need to let go of that career chase and into the destiny God has for us. I am not saying that letting go is not worth the choice but there are things in life that we feel inadequate about, specially when God calls us to something BIG.
2. Fulfillment of God's promises is a process to follow - I am reminded of Jonah in the city of Nineveh, what wonder could he have felt when he saw a great revival after reluctantly running away from his destiny. This is how I feel right now, I feel reluctant for such a great destiny because I have a lot of stuff to process in my mind. But in the process to fulfilling God's call is also the process to obey even when we feel different about it or our circumstances tells us a different story.
3. The end result will never be about us but GOD alone - becoming a prophetic voice for my generation has to do with the selfish notion to be known instead of God to be known. It has been a recurring challenge to lay low your own thoughts or accord your fulfillment to what God has done through you. Pride is our main issue and struggle but the sufficiency of God's grace allows us to believe and have the mindset to give GOD the glory alone, not for us but for Him to be magnified in all that we do.
In the end, the calling of God differs and will spread-out from being in the marketplace, the community or even at church. Our scope will be different from time to time but for one purpose alone and that is to honor the name of Jesus, the name that is worthy to serve because of what he has done. Let it be a reminder for all of us - prophetic, apostolic or whatever - that God has given us to the body to become his hands to fulfill His kingdom mandate and saying yes to Him is not letting go of other things in mind but doing what we can do wherever and whenever we can.
God bless and happy Easter everyone!
