Tag: Redemptive Gift

An Open Letter to All the Redemptive Gift Prophets

by theparacleteshammer, posted in Prophets, Redemptive Gifts, RG Prophets

You are enough….

You are just enough…..

Overthinking it, not needed….

Asking, “did they mean it this way or that way?”, so you could compensate or fix the thing they never asked you to fix, not necessary.

There is a key to your gift, Prophet. There is a deep and abiding key.

And if you use this key, it will align your gift to its proper moorings. And to those who would be tempted to fix without using the key, well, that can hurt.

The key is intimacy with the King. Times of connection with the King where you speak with Him and He with you.

He wants to develop the rivers of living water that flow from your spirit, Prophet.

And the fire that burns.

“I would that you were hot or cold”.

Both the hot and the cold are necessary.

Both the burning and the refreshing….so we do not burn out. But especially critical to the Prophet.

And the Wind that blows us to and fro. As we align our sails to continue the adventure that He has for us.

He does not give you just life so you can solve problems.

And as much as the forbears of Reformed Theology would like to ignore what they wrote at the head of the Westminster Catechism, our chief end is NOT to glorify G-d.

No….

If I left that as the chief end of man, then I would burn out…..

No, the chief end of man is two fold.

  1. Glorify G-d AND AND AND AND
  2. ENJOY HIM FOREVER!!!

Your chief end cannot exist unless you have BOTH PARTS.

And enjoying Him in intimacy is part of the equation. If I only talk about glorifying G-d, and I proceed along that line, I am going to die and shrivel up and be useless.

I must take seasons apart for intimacy and bridal connection with my Husband.

If I don’t then PREMATURE DEATH WILL BE THE END, EVERY SINGLE TIME!

So, you must have those times where you need Him.

Elijah refused intimacy over his entire life, and as a result, he never attained to the fullness of what the L-rd had for him. He chose the low-hanging goal of taking down Baal and Ashtaroth.

The L-rd repeatedly wanted to give Him intimacy. In the form of the ravens by the brook.

And then in the form oof the gooey Giver Elisha as a friend and someone to mentor as a son.

He never softened.

Prophets, if you do not soften and become warm and tender in your hearts, you will rot from the anger and the harshness and the coldness and the lack of love.

If you do not return to your first love “First of the Seven Letters to the Seven Churches”, it will leave you in rotting darkness.

You must, you must, you must, cultivate a deep and tender love relationship with him.

But this is the responsiblity of the Prophet more than the other six gifts combined.

So, take that key and run with it, darling Prophets.

You are so loved.

Be blessed.

The Gospel of Desire: Part 6; Matt. 3:1-12: The Prophet’s Desire

by theparacleteshammer, posted in Principles

In those days John [the Baptizer] came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.’” Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him, and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, G-d is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

Matthew 3:1–12 ESV

Gang,

Many of you know of Prophets as brusque, rude, hell-bent on the rightness or righteousness of their cause, and in many cases that would be a correct assessment. But that is not the whole story.

John’s heart and zeal was for the annunciation of the coming kingdom. He is not merely showing his trailblazing with zero compromise, but he is also showing a deep heart and yearning and tenderness and brokenness that was also full of tunnel-vision

In their love and tenderness, the Father put the Prophet on a Mission: to purify those things that are impure. And to cut up the things that need to be cut up in order to have a clean and blank slate, so that, if the Prophet has high numbers in interpersonal relationships, they can build something deep and protective and loving and affectionate with others.

So, the high-functioning Prophet’s iconoclasm is not tied up in their hatred of sin, though that is a major factor, so much as their love of the people caught in that sin.

So, he or she is going to take it hard and fast with an axe to those with the choking spirit of religion.

I have one sister (she is too close to be called a mere friend, and I DESPISE the religious usage of that term by people who are stuck on the usual bandying of “brother” and “sister” without having first paid the price in terms of earning the authority and intentionally choosing their family) who is a Prophet who is like this throughout.

At first, stand-offish, but once connected, is as gushy as many a Mercy I know to those they trust.

The Baptizer’s overarching zeal and truly (I rarely use the following word because it has become overused), their PASSION (something you love so much you are willing to suffer for it) is others’ freedom. Their love is for others’ deep and prevailing liberation from bondage.

It’s not merely for the Baptizer, (no I will not call him a Baptist, that manner of translation is incorrect and culturally stupid, he is a Baptizing one, one who Baptizes, and Immerser, a Baptizer, not the leader of some denomination) or for any Prophet, about doing the things, but showing they are authentic in doing the things.

And so with us, Prophets’ first and foremost DESIRE, is our authenticity in responding.

The Gospel of Desire, gang…

Be blessed, lovelies.