Even in my social media-less void, I’ve heard the rumblings from a variety of Christian fronts all clamoring in one way or another for a prophetic voice (or voices) to cut through the cultural climate and bring whatever solutions that particular group perceives is needed for our day and time. The longing I think is spot on. After all, Jesus spoke of the “Blessed” life as being instep with the “prophets who were before” us (Matt. 5:12).
What concerns me, however, is that what I hear in the desire for clarity is means of opposition not of reconciliation. Its the clarity of the speck in another’s eye, what’s keeping them from seeing rightly, rather than the clarity of the log in my own that keeps me from participating with the good that our Father in heaven is longing to manifest. The prophets of old spoke and prayed to help us become aware of ourselves in relation to God and others, and that’s the prophetic prayers we need anew today.
Will join me in praying a first prophetic word for over our faith family, and the faith family’s of our city, speaking a reconciling awareness over you sisters and brothers:
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as heirs through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. (Eph. 1:3-14)