Radiant Dew Word

There is one God and one mediator between God and men. The office is taken.
The error is not in the idea of a go-between but in its extremism, when someone stands so far between you and God that you stop reaching for Him yourself. Saul’s middleman was no con artist; Samuel was God’s own choice, and Saul still never learned to pray. Twice he called Him “the Lord your God.” When he sinned, he asked the prophet to pardon him. David fasted seven days, Paul asked three times, Elijah looked seven times. Saul prayed once, heard nothing, and went to a medium.
“Do not substitute the silence of God with the verbosity of men.” The eighth message in The Prophetic Mandate series is not against ministers. It is against a dependence that cannot find God without someone in the way.
Scripture: 1 Timothy 2:5-6; Ephesians 2:18; 1 Samuel 9-10; 1 Samuel 15:22-30; 1 Samuel 28:6-7
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Jesus said false prophets come in sheep’s clothing. Not another breed of sheep. Wolves, and wolves eat sheep.
Where people want the remarkable badly enough, someone will always arrive to supply it. The test Jesus gave was fruit, not gift, and the people He sends away in Matthew 7 are people who prophesied in His name. Ahab’s four hundred prophets agreed to a man, and Zedekiah made horns of iron to prove it. Micaiah saw a lying spirit volunteer to speak through them all. They heard something; it was not God.
Jehoshaphat could not settle, and asked whether there was still a prophet of the Lord. The seventh message in The Prophetic Mandate series asks the listener to learn the anointing that abides within, and not to reject knowledge.
Scripture: Matthew 7:15-23; 2 Corinthians 11:12-14; 1 Kings 22:6-23; 1 John 2:27; Hosea 4:6
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Samson tore a young lion apart with his bare hands in the vineyards of Timnah. He could beat the lion. He could not master his own temper.
Anger itself is not the sin. Jesus looked around in anger at hard hearts and then healed the man’s hand. But anger has a time limit, and God warned Cain while he was still only angry. Absalom had real cause over Tamar, lay with his anger for two years, had Amnon killed, and spent three more in exile. Simeon and Levi had cause too, and left a city of widows and orphans.
However justified it feels, there was always a choice. The first part of Lucifer’s Little Foxes, from the book of the same name, asks the listener to bring real hurt to God before the sun goes down on it.
Scripture: Song of Solomon 2:15; Judges 14:5-6; Ephesians 4:26; Mark 3:5; Genesis 4:6-7; Genesis 49:5
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You are not a biological accident. Dr. Boadum first heard that from his father, at a time when he was a student of medicine and saw plenty that seemed to say otherwise.
Paul names four assaults in 2 Corinthians 4 and then four endings that do not match them: hard pressed but not crushed, perplexed but not in despair, persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed. None of those endings were visible while the trouble was running.
The end of the story is not God’s final signature. He posts His version after the story ends, and the help that carries you through the present is often dispatched from a future you cannot yet see.
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:7-9; Jeremiah 29:11; Matthew 2:13-18; Revelation 12:1-6
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Asa prayed against a vast army and won. Against a much smaller threat, he paid the king of Syria instead.
Not every alternative is sin; some only bring delay. The ones that ensnare are strong enough to make our dependence on God waver. Asa, who once cried that there was none like the Lord to help, later jailed the seer who rebuked him and sought physicians and not the Lord. Saul inquired of God, heard nothing, and asked for a medium the same day. Ahaziah, injured, sent to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron.
Elijah sent his servant to look seven times before the cloud appeared. The fourth message in The Prophetic Mandate series asks the listener to stay where Elijah stayed and keep praying, because whatever we control at our beck and call is likely not God.
Scripture: John 14:6; Exodus 20:3-5; 2 Chronicles 14:11; 2 Chronicles 16:7-12; 1 Samuel 28:6-7; 1 Kings 18:44
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Everyone asks whether a prophetic word came to pass. Almost nobody asks where it came from.
Scripture puts the second question first, because a word carries the authority of whoever spoke it. John the Baptist named the Messiah and admitted, "I myself did not know him"; he spoke because he had first been given the sign. Deuteronomy names three sources for a word, and Jesus adds a fourth when He tells Peter that flesh and blood did not reveal it. Accuracy settles nothing: the slave girl at Philippi said something true about Paul, and Paul cast the spirit out.
You cannot examine a spirit, only the one carrying it, and fruit discerns more reliably than gift. The fifth message in The Prophetic Mandate series.
Scripture: Revelation 19:10; Deuteronomy 18:20-22; John 1:32-34; Matthew 16:17; Acts 16:16-18; Matthew 7:15-20
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