Prophesy Faith to the World

 The high call of the Third Day Prophet is to resurrect the faith of this present world, but in order to do this, God’s prophets and church alike must be blind and deaf to the natural realm so we can see and hear in the spiritual realm. For example, when the King of Syria sent armed men to assassinate the prophet Elisha, Elisha encouraged his intimidated and fearful servant to open his eyes to the spiritual realm. While the servant’s natural eyes saw a landscape painted with his enemies, the awakening of his spiritual eyes showed him the legions of angels that wouldn’t permit harm to come to these men of God. Those that were with them were more than those that were against them. Imagine the servant’s total reversal of feelings from utter hopelessness to complete security—at the blink of a spiritual eye!

It is the prophet’s call to awaken the church to the spiritual realm. We must direct the body of Christ to see with God’s eyes. We must encourage our brethren to be blind to all the terror and negative reports—the constant coverage of war and rumors of war—that bombard us daily and keep us bound by fear. The eyes of the church must be wide open to an invisible yet omnipotent and omnipresent God, and our minds must be attuned to His thoughts. It wasn’t that the young David was unable to see Goliath’s size in the valley of Elah. Israel’s future King’s apparent fearlessness of the giant wasn’t the product of some teenage feeling of invincibility; rather, it was David’s faith in the power of his God to overcome even the greatest of uncircumcised Philistines that allowed him to raze this overgrown mocker of Israel. Since David’s eyes were open to the power he wielded in the spiritual realm and blind to his limitations in the natural realm, he knew and understood and believed the following spiritual concept that would be written by Paul’s pen over a thousand years later: If God be for us, then who can be against us?

Before we prophecy faith to our neighbors—let alone the world—we have to walk in faith ourselves. It’s time we face the truth: there are going to be obstacles set before us. Especially as Christians. But what are you going to see once you arrive at that obstacle? A stumbling block that there’s no way around or a chance to exercise your faith? Like Peter, we must be the ones to see the treacherous water before us as a walking path to our Savior, but learning from Peter’s mistake, we must fix an unwavering focus on Jesus. A man cannot be entrapped in his own mindset—his fears and his limited understanding—and access the mind of God. He cannot be enslaved to his own perceptions and live in the unseen realm of the Spirit. It is impossible for a prophet to be filled with his or her own thoughts while relaying the mind of God to the church or to the lost. It is time we lay aside our carnal thoughts and clothe ourselves with the mind of Christ. We must cover our natural eyes to see in the Spirit.

Faithlessness binds us in mediocrity and keeps us complacent. We must learn to prophesy and to believe what Heaven is proclaiming. Our natural senses hinder us by limiting our faith, and things that are promised to us in our lives are withheld from us because we don’t have the faith to receive it. Like Joshua and Caleb, we must be the ones that have the faith to give a report contrary to the report of the ten faithless spies. When you are filled with faith, it is never too late to inherit your promised land. Repeatedly in the gospels, Jesus told those whom he had healed that THEIR FAITH had made them whole. We are rain stoppers, speaking with the power and the authority of the One who created the rain. It’s start we start believing it, so the world can too!