2 Peter 1:19 – “For this prophetic message is like a piercing light shining in a gloomy place until the dawning of a new day, when the Morning Star rises in your hearts”

Recently my husband and I taught the Holy Spirit through the Bible in Bethesda College. As I went through the Old Testament the Lord really brought it home to me that we have been given the prophetic word all thorough the ages just like the OT prophets. In fact as I read over the OT I realized that all that they had was the Spirit of prophesy. Most of them lacked talent or skill and most of them struggled until they caught the “prophetic word” given to them. We can look at the prophet Isaiah who saw the Lord in the temple when his king died, or Jeremiah when the better word within him became like “fire in his bones”. Queen Esther received the prophetic word when her uncle paid a visit with the words – “you’ve been called for such a time as this”. We speak a lot about the Holy Spirit when it comes to signs and wonders, or speaking in tongues but what about his prophetic word to you?

Zachariah cried out “not by might, nor by power but by My Spirit” and lets not forget the prophet Joel foretelling a time when the sons and daughters would dream and have visions. The OT closes with 400 silent years that sealed the earth in silence like a cocoon until the appointed time. Makes me wonder what caused the silence?

Then suddenly a burst of angelic visitation showed up just outside of the Holy of Holies to a priest who was picked out of 20,000 other priests. Poor Zachariah couldn’t rub the unbelief fast enough from his eyes and ears and was pronounced deaf and dumb. He became a good example to us all as we wait for the promise of a better word to have fulfillment in our lives. He finally broke out of the unbelief when he exclaimed “his name is John”. And time doesn’t allow me to speak of Elizabeth giving Mary a prophetic message nor Mary’s prophetic word that brought her all the way to the cross and into the book of Acts on the day of Pentecost!

“We have come to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks a better things than the blood of Abel”. (Heb 12:24) What did Abel’s blood cry out you ask? It cried for judgment and vengeance but Christ’s blood has a voice instead of condemning and holding us afar off, calls us to come near. Go and ahead and admit it, God has given you many prophetic messages of encouragement that pierces through the darkness. It’s just too bad you might have let them slip and allowed an evil heart of unbelief to affect you. Stir up God’s gift my friend, you will see a fulfillment of what was spoken over you!