Anyone who has learned to hear Father’s voice has asked the
question: Why does he sometimes speak in strange pictures and obscure messages?
Why not just speak clearly?
One of the main reasons (in my observation at least) that
Father speaks obscurely is because his goals are different from mine. If he
spoke clearly, we’d grab that information and presumably do something with it.
But neither the information nor the doing is his primary goal.
Father’s primary goal is relationship. And toward that goal,
he speaks to us. Most of what he says to us is about us, or is our personal
(and probably private) prayer assignment. Most of the tiny remainder of what he
says to us is for our metron, our close circle of relationships: church
congregation, home group, family, etc. Very little is to be shared, and so he
speaks obscurely, in order that we won’t share private conversation too quickly.
And it is an error, in my opinion, to assume that God is
speaking literally. He has been pretty clear about that (see 1Corinthians
13:12, Numbers 12:6-8). And so he speaks obscurely is because he’s more
interested in you than he is in the information.
So I encourage you to go for walks with God: talk out loud.
Tell him about your day, and how you feel about your day. Ask him about his
day, and how he feels about his day, or about your day. Talk about your
favorite music, your favorite flowers, and why they’re your favorites. Ask
about his.
Avoid talking about prophetic stuff for a long while, either
the process of prophesying, or the “prophetic words” he or others have spoken
to you. This is about relationship, not the business of prophesying.
This is a favorite topic of mine: intimacy with Father on
His terms. Anyway, lest I get overly long-winded, I leave you with these two
thoughts. They both apply to the subject at hand, though the application is not
overly obvious.
One more detail: it’s pretty clear that the times, they are
a-changing. It’s my opinion that this kind of intimacy with Father will be more
important, rather than less important, as the world gets more tumultuous and
our lives get busier.
Wow. Yeah . amen
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