This post belongs to a series, and to understand what the series is about you should read the first post of this series. There are two ways one could access the realm of the prophetic. It is either he consciously decide to access this realm or he is pulled by the Spirit into this realm. Either way, the prophetic realm can only be accessed by the Spirit. To consciously access it by yourself you need discipline, patience, faith, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
But in certain situations those things are not available. Faith comes by knowledge and when the people are ignorant how can they have faith. So when all these things are not available and God desperately wants to bring us into the realm of the prophetic and show us things, then he would send the Holy Spirit to pull us into that realm. This pulling can happen in varying degrees based on how desperate the message it. Sometimes the Holy Spirit pulls us and we do not even know. But there are special times he pulls so hard that it is impossible to miss.
When one has been chosen by God into the ministry of the Prophet, such a person would be grace with such pulling. Whether he wants to or not he would experience the realm of the prophetic. The Bible speaks of the gift of prophecy. This is a gift where you are grace with this pulling of the Spirit into the prophetic realm. But the goal of every gift of the Spirit is to push you to grow in that dimension of Christ. In the previous post I mentioned that the prophetic is a dimension of Christ and as sons of God we ought to grow into maturity in all the dimensions of God.
When you have a prophetic gift that causes you to experience the realm of the prophetic, soon you will develop an appetite for this experience. Appetite leads to hunger and hunger leads to pursuit. Pursuit leads to growing into maturity in the prophetic. There is a spiritual law; if you desire something of God earnestly you will have it.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled." (Matt 5:6).
"When you come looking for me, you’ll find me. Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else," (Jer 29:13).
"So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him." (Matt 7:11).
As he grows deeply hungry and pursuing it with all of his heart, he would grow and get to a point where he can enter into the prophetic at will. First it started with the Spirit pulling him into the prophetic once in a while. Then the person begins to want more, and more. At some seasons in his life he doesn't experience anything at all, and this causes his hunger to grow deeply. He becomes like a lion that has been starved, and brought to a point where he has nothing to lose, "it's either I get this or I die, I have tasted it in the past, and I cannot continue to live without it". Yes that is what the Spirit wants, to bring you to this very point. It is at this point of hunger that all his antenna super sharp, ready to pick anything. He pays careful attention, asking questions, learning, pressing hard in the place of prayer, and just like that he grows.
It is this pressing that would cause him to grow into maturity in the prophetic. No, it is not the gift or his calling that cause him to grow, it is the pressing. There are many people that have this calling yet they do not grow in the prophetic. If you rely on the gift alone you will not grow. The gift is aimed at giving you an hunger to pursue maturity in the prophetic. It is this pursuit that would bring you into maturity. This means that, with or without the gift and calling, as long as you desire and pursue the prophetic, you will grow into full maturity in it.
"Now eagerly desire the greater gifts. And yet I will show you the most excellent way." (1Cor 12:31).
"Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy." (1Cor 14:1).
It is all yours if only you desire and pursue it. The prophetic is a dimension of God, and God has opened up His fullness for us, asking us to come in and explore. All the fullness of God is accessible to us by faith in Christ Jesus. So if you believe that you can access the realm of the prophetic you will access it. There are exercises that would help in accessing the prophetic and becoming acquainted to it. These exercises is what I teach in my course; Oneness With God.
Once you start doing these exercises consistently, in two weeks or so you will begin to operate in the prophetic. It is not difficult if you are taught these things. What we lack in the body of Christ is correct teaching and training. The fullness of God is all ours, we only need to learn how to access it. The more you access the realm of the prophetic, the more easier it becomes for you. The first time it may take you 3 days of pressing for 3 hours. But later you will be entering it every day as you press for 3 hours. Before you know it in just an hour of pressing you will be entering into that realm. Then later you become so one (united) with this realm that it feels like a part of you. Entering it become as simple as raising up your hands.
If you are someone who started out consciously pressing without the gift of the Spirit, and you continue to grow in the prophetic you will come to a place where you begin to experience that pulling that gifted people experience. Yes, even without trying you will find yourself being pulled into that realm. When you become one with that realm you will feel so pulled to it, and you will be able to flow smoothly with the prophetic.
I am writing this to give you hope and faith that this thing is yours, you can have it all. Just believe, be disciplined enough to press consistently, and be very patient in your pressing. It is a step by step growth, and if you desire it you will become very mature in the prophetic. You will not be able to recognize yourself anymore, for you will grow so powerfully that it would transform you completely.
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