WORD TO PONDER:  WISDOM IN PROPHESYING  3/18/07

For every issue, there is the right gift to prophesy help for the downtrodden. Listen to the heart of the person in need.  When I give you My Word, use wisdom in how you prophesy to that person.  It will make all the difference.  Listen to My heart for them, and listen to their heart.  In so doing, you will know the wisdom of loving the downtrodden through prophesy.

When one is broken and shattered, they are only able to hear Words of comfort.  These soothing Words bring loving reassurance, understanding and hope.  It eases the pain of the trauma and releases the soul.

Every parent knows the cry of their young.  There comes a place when that cry turns from brokenness to self pity or anger or manipulation.  In such a case, comfort only pacifies and validates the soul to stay in that demanding place.  When in a steady diet of only comfort, it can feed the downtrodden one to navel gaze and become self focused.

Exhortation is the gift to motivate the downtrodden to get up and move out of their mindset, their circumstance or issue and change.  Exhortation can stir the heart to let go of the pain and move on.  Exhortation is lost on someone who is still broken and in need of deep comfort.  Such a person only hears impatience and insensitivity as they are immobilized with sorrow, grief and despair. 

Edification builds the downtrodden’s faith, mindsets and confidence into reflecting the My nature.  These are words are like building stones that are set one on top of another, slowly changing the perspective.  They redirect the hopeless attitudes into the hope that says, I can do all things through Christ.

1 Cor 14:3 NKJV

But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men.