Present Day

The purpose, then, of this blog is to bring the reader up to date on the events from late 1987 to the present (not to worry, we are not going to give you minutia). We feel it is important that you, the reader, understand how we came to be in the place we are, doing what we are doing today.

Many people over the years have commented that I seem to have greater spiritual insight than the "average Christian" (whoever that is). I believe that to be true and the best way to explain why that might be so is by way of scripture. Jesus Himself said, "He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward..." (Matthew 10:41) (Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations in this blog are taken from the New King James Version of the Holy Bible.) It is our considered belief that the prophet's reward spoken of in the above verse is the ability of the prophet to see into the spiritual realm with greater frequency and accuracy than is considered the norm. Does this mean we will always be right in the present day? One would hope that is true, but it seems unlikely. New Testament prophecy comes to give, "...edification and exhortation and comfort to men." (1 Corinthians 14:3) New Testament prophecy can be a foretelling of future events, but it is much more often simply God speaking to someone through another person to answer a question or need in that person's life.

Having said all that, the prophet I relate most closely with is Amos. Amos came to Israel at a time when the nation was not living according to the Word of God. Shortly after he began to call Israel into account for their transgressions, he was told by the king to run away and not to prophesy any longer. His response was that he was not a prophet or a prophet's son, but God had told him to prophesy. I teach. That is what I do. But occasionally God does give me a message for someone else and I would be loath to contain it. In those times, my sole responsibility is to make God's present word, his rhema, known. It is the responsibility of the person to whom that word is given to decide how to respond to it.