Interesting quote.....

"I know of a few individuals with powerful gifts of discernment and a wide-open spiritual awareness who many think are prophetic, but there is a taint in the anointing- a kind of under taste that builds up over time as you absorb more and more of their ministry.

Gradually under the ministry of one of these you feel invaded, defiled and controlled.

A sense of revulsion develops until you want to cut that one off completely. Underneath the apparently gifted exterior is a dominant unbroken need for power- a yearning to be seen and recognized as important, wise and gifted. Such a waste of good raw material! Character is everything. The prophet must be dead to self and alive to God. Make certain you are not one of those whose inner self is so invested in denying your rejection issues that to admit to the depth and extent of your depravity would be too much to absorb. Jezebel finds such people an easy mark.

I wish we could crucify ourselves. It might be easier to absorb the pain if this were possible. That would however, be control. The essence of our training must be loss of control and surrender to the hand of God, even in suffering. So do you still want to be prophetic?

When all is stripped away what remains? What value is there in standing naked and broken before God?Publish Post

The answer is the inestimable value of knowing to the core of myself that I am a son, that I am loved and that He is my Father. This is my whole identity. Am I a prophet, a healer, a leader? Recognized or ignored? Well-known or laboring in obscurity? These things no longer matter. What remains is that I am His, secure in His arms. Nothing more. And should that not be enough?

I must reinstate that a new generation of leadership is soon to emerge. Prophetic people will be forerunners. This leadership will both understand and ministre from a base in the Sabbath rest of the people of God;

9So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.10For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. 11Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience. 12For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Hebrews 4: 9-12

The key in this ministry will be that we will have rested from our own works because we have suffered exposure of every thought and intention of the heart that does not resonate that rest. The flesh avails nothing.

The new leadership is being refined in the crucible of brokenness, the wilderness and the dark night of the soul.

They labor in hiddeness under limitation, learning the sweet simplicity of being nothing more that sons and daughters, but they must soon be revealed and released. In brokenness and humility, walking in the depth of His love, this new generation will be safe to wield the power of God because those elements of the flesh that would have abused the flock or usurp the glory of God for self will have been crucified with Christ. This must be our goal, not building great ministries or expanding our influence."

From the book 'Understanding Prophetic People- Blessings and problems with the prophetic gift' R. Loren Sandford, pages 215-218

Any thoughts?