Too many prophets of our day have been developed in a green house and we are dealing with the greenhouse effect. A set temperature where they are conditioned and grown in a “perfect environment.” They have been placed into a shallow mode of growth where their roots can only grow so much before they hit bottom. They know no wind, no rain, no sudden change in temperature or pressure. They are placed in the greenhouses of self-preservation and along- side other conditioned plantings where everyone learns how to behave but grows separately based on personal identity rather than corporate assembly.
Prophets today are not taught that the prophets of old did not live in well-conditioned atmospheres but were actually planted in the harshest terrain. They were not protected from the elements but grew through them and some of them were uprooted and destroyed because of where God planted them.
We in America do not know such prophets. For we have home grown our prophets to speak and bloom our flowery words and produce our tasty fruits and our sweet treats.
We have now conditioned our meeting houses as greenhouses only allowing the hand-picked, hand planted prophets to speak.
Nothing Wild grows here.
Nothing real grows here either.
Instead of cross pollination we now have ’cross cloning.’
It is no longer a cross we get on to die but only one we hang around.
We do not birth prophets anymore, we build them. We make them from cultural trends and norms and build them from parts and pieces of scripture that fit our image of modern society. We manufacture them after our ideas and anyone who comes along that has a wild sprout we cut off disconnect from it. Too many times we set the temperature of our houses to grow. We set the mist, the message, the mist, the message and the man of our choice.
TO GOD MADE PROPHETS:
What if I told you, prophets, that your life will end when you pledge it to God? What if I told you, men will hate you and that its part of ‘your call’?
What if I told you, men will say ‘that’s Old Testament’ just to get you to grow in your greenhouses?
What if I told you that you are to prepare and to reveal the way and that’s it?
What if I told you others will do miracles and you may not?
What if I told you ‘one size’ doesn’t fit all in true prophets?
What if I told you that you were not made to grow in a mode but in the wild?
What if I told you that you are meant to feel scourged of religion and the heat of Herod?
When ‘your call’ causes men to cut you off. When your call causes others to advance in freedom while you remain in prison.
When your call replaces a life of comfort with a life of misunderstanding. When your call puts you in men’s chains of restrictions. When your call lets you hear the success of men while you are being held back.
What will you do?
How will you respond?
Will you be bitter?
Will you be offended?
Will you abandon your call?
Will you change your message?
Will you become a victim?
Will you become a puppet?
Will you stay submitted. Will you remain in obedience?
Can you be sent and then sent away?
Can you call out a matter when it matters?
Can you handle the flattery and criticism?
Can you handle the ridicule of religion?
Can you handle the death sentence of ‘Kings’?
Can you still love?
Can you still forgive?
Can you stay true?
Can your heart remain pure?
Can you stay free of bitterness?
Can you stay free of resentment?
Can you stay free of offence?
The time has come to put an end to the excepted manufactured ‘American Made” prophets and allow the ‘God Made’ for America prophets to come.
HEY CHURCH CAN YOU HANDLE THE Untouched, Untamed, Undomesticated and Undone prophet?
WILD ONES ARE COMING.
IF NOT TO YOUR BUILDING THEN AT LEAST TO YOUR REGION.
WHAT DID YOU GO OUT TO THE WILDERNESS TO SEE?
David Kelly