In this season, I believe the Lord is drawing all prophetic people into a sweeter alignment with God’s Word and His Kingdom principles. Gone are the days when we can say one thing and then live another. The Lord is searching for a fresh fragrance of integrity and congruence from His prophets that is measured in purity by the teachings of Jesus. This is not an outward show, but an inner reality that He is calling us all afresh into. It is to an awareness—not just of Him, but of ourselves in how we really are.
It is not so much what we say, but how we say it. It is not so much what we do, but how we do it. It is not so much who we think we are, but who we actually are.
We are being called to greater awareness.
The hall of mirrors often presented to us and what we look to for our reflection often leads us to a distortion of truth—distorting the reality of what is.
There is one mirror, and His name is Jesus.
How do others experience us? We need to cry out to God and ask Him to remove the blinkers and blindness to who we truly are as opposed to the image we seek to present.
We are at a pivotal moment where I believe God is drawing His breath, getting ready to blow across the nations and across our hearts. He is breathing on the places where He will find the fragrance—the taste and the feel of His Kingdom abiding.
He desires for safe places to arise for the broken to come: not just those who are broken because of living apart from Him, but those who have been broken in their gift, their assignment, their call. Those who have been told in the past it was safe, but in reality it was not.
Will you be that safe place to which they can now come?
Structures and restructuring are important, but it’s not the principal thing. Healthy soil from which structures grow will be the gold standard for the King. Rich soil with the teachings and ways of Jesus is what He is looking for. He does not need us to impress Him or others with our revelation, assignment, or ministerial call. He is not wowed by any of this. After all, each were always His gift.
He is calling us into a greater walk of obedience. He wants to equip us through this and make us ready for the seasons to come. He wants us to sharpen our skills of navigation through chaos and lead us into deeper rest and peace as we hold Kingdom principles as our compass and the Word of God as the rock we stand on.
As prophets, we will need to serve the Body of Christ—first by modelling the use of this Kingdom Compass by surrendering all revelation, personal desires, and thoughts to it. He desires for wisdom to be embodied and understood clearly by what we demonstrate and how we live.
We need to learn to disregard anything that does not line up to Jesus’ Word, even if it’s exciting. We need to learn to more quickly catch the things that our hearts sometimes choose to overlook.
We need to learn not to be titillated by revelation but seek to amend our behaviours in the way we walk out our call first. We need to stop blindly pursuing only revelation through personal drive or unregulated emotions that so often trample over the foundation of a shining and glorious Kingdom walk.
What is the compass you are using? Who or what determines your North, your South, your East, your West?
Whose voice is loudest as you navigate the chaos?
What is the rock on which you stand?
The Lord is calling us to serve “the right way up,” which means getting down low and embracing the humility of His Kingdom pace, whatever that may be.
It may be going with the flow or going a different way. The compass and the Word will show us the way, and we can know then, truly know, that our steps will be safe.
It’s time to examine how we say things, how we do things, and embrace the reality of who we truly are, here and now.
His love is ready to overwhelm us in this place. His love is ready to heal us in this place.
His love is ready to promote us in this place.
His love is ready to equip us in this place.
His love is ready to form Kingdom accuracy into all we do in order for us to flow demonstrably with Kingdom accuracy to all we serve.
His love is ready to let us start again.
It is only His Kingdom that will endure, and we are only called to be part of His Kingdom.
It is not the destined path we choose to follow, but the manner of our walk on it. It is not the words that come out of our mouths, accurate though they may be. It is about how true they really are, in reality.
—Jenny Hockley, Apostolic Prophet, EPUK school director, England Visit the FTPN home page.
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