Prophetic Purpose

Prophetic Purpose

1. Given by the Holy Spirit

2. Set timing

3. Set place

4. Divine purpose

5. Fulfills Destiny

6. Releases Blessings

7. Requires Obedience

8. Requires faith

9. Results are not guaranteed.

A prophetic assignment is brought to you from the Father's heart by the Holy Spirit. The assignment has a set timing, in other words there is a window of time in which the assignment can be accomplished. It has a set place, there is a location where the assignment is supposed to happen. You may not be aware of the exact location where this is supposed to happen but you will be given a starting place. A prophetic assignment has a divine purpose, both for you and the other persons. God has a plan and He is entrusting this to you to fulfill the activation of that plan. A prophetic assignment fulfills destiny. Destiny is about to be birthed and your assignment is to help bring that forth. As you release destiny, you release blessing in your own life. The assignment requires obedience and the obedience releases the blessing. The obedience requires faith because the results are not guaranteed. Wait, what do you mean the results are not guaranteed?? It's because each person has freewill and they can choose to respond or not respond. But once you have completed your assignment, and you have completed your role then release the results to the Father.
Let's look at a biblical example of the prophetic assignment: In Acts 9:10, the disciple Agabus received his prophetic assignment in a vision. In the vision the Lord appears to him and specifically tells him what to do. He told Agabus when the set time was, Now, and He told Agabus where to go, the street called Straight, and the house of Judas. The divine purpose, is to lay hands on Saul to receive his sight.  The fulfillment of destiny comes when Saul begins to preach the Gospel proclaiming Jesus in the synagogues, telling them, "He is the Son of God." This prophetic assignment required obedience from Agabus and he tells the Lord in his vision about the harm that Saul has done to the saints.  If required faith for Agabus to head out for this prophetic assignment. The blessing that was released was that now a chief persecutor of the Christians had now become a christian and that particular danger was gone. The blessing for Saul was that the scales fell from his eyes and his sight was restored. In this example the results were told to Agabus by the Lord in the vision, that Saul would bear the Lord's name before Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel.
What prophetic assignment has the Lord given to you that will release blessing in your life through obedience? Think about it. This is Pastor Susan Living the Everyday Prophetic Life and fulfilling God's assignments.

Poured out for the Gospel

Poured out for the Gospel

When you are in ministry, you pour out your life for the Gospel. You pour out your heart for others, for the joy of the Lord, for the call on your life, for the message of peace and grace. You pour from the Lord into the lives of other's from a well that the Lord places in you.

But the reality of ministry is that sometimes the well goes dry. It can be as dry as the drought of Oklahoma. It can be as dry as the desert. And it can get that dry before you know it. You reach down for another cup of cool water to pass out to a thirsty believer and you just get a thud when the bucket hits the bottom. Not a cool splash of living water that refreshes you as you bring it forth. Just a strange thud and then you realize that the well is dry.

Now if you are in leadership or the pastorate or the prophetic, usually you don't tell anyone that the well is dry. You just fake it. You act like everything is fine. You put on a good face. You put on your bathing suit and pretend to splash around in the river of water. And sometime's you panic and you think, "What if I never feel the cool water of the Spirit in my soul again!"And so you continue the charade.

Jesus said that when we come to Him, He would give us living water. He said we would never be thirsty again. So why is the well dry? What has happened to plug it up. Ah! The cares of the world, the busyness of life, the lack of fellowship and prayertime with our beloved Savior.

Friends this happens to everyone at some point in their ministry. I want you to realize that this is normal. And the way to overcome this is to spend time with the Lord and be refreshed. Step back from the business and hustle and bustle and spend some time at Jesus feet. Be transparant in your ministry so others can see that sometimes it is ok to ask for help. Sometimes you just can't stand alone. God has set us in families.We are made to be a part of the body of Christ. Act like it. This is Pastor Susan Living the Everyday Prophetic Life.