Wanted - A Prophet of God

The job narrative for the office of Prophet, in the Biblical sense, might be a bit intimidating for contemporary -at least Western - believers. Yet it was a typical profile when God put His men on the planet. The qualifications included, but were not dinky to:

a desire to live in deserted, lonely habitat a severe limitation to wardrobe a similar cutback in the area of diet. The necessity of eating what is ready in the wild. being field to varied forms of death and near-death experiences: beheading, boiling in oil, crucifixion, drowing in a deep pit, stoning, being sawn in two.

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applications are not available. One must live close to God and wait for a call. No call means one is not needed as a prophet. No self-made self-styled prophets need think themselves a part of this office. no college training will prepare such a man. Life is the training for a prophet. no single secular life-calling fits the mold of prophet. One can be called from the field or the palace or the synagogue.

And then there are these tips:

If you are a true prophet, your audience will go down, not up. In some cases your entire flock may be asked to result One better than you. There are no special benefits and privileges, this side of heaven. You are to live a life of exquisite obedience, as a slave to the One Who called You.

Have I not properly described the men of God, named and un-named, who grace the pages of Scripture? Moses, Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos, John. And have I not properly drawn a line in the middle of a true man of God and the men who are rising before us today trying to wear that same title, with their fine clothes and multi-million dollar homes and vehicles and toys?

Give us Lord, a man of God! One who is not afraid to say everything You have already said, one who cares not how small his congregation becomes as long as he is speaking the truth in love. One who will give his life for what he knows to be the truth.

One of my constant concerns is for the time duration immediately following the fall of the Kim reign in North Korea. When the door is open, what will go straight through that door? The cults that deny Jesus is Lord of all. The religions that look holy but lack life. Mainline denominations of Christendom that have long ago exchanged the good news for a bowl of stew and a warm bed and American-style comforts.

Lord, Your sheep will hear Your voice. For that we are grateful.

Wanted - A Prophet of God

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