The Days of Elijah!

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For going on six years now, our intercessory team prays each Saturday morning.  During the months of January and February, we open up the call to hear from God’s prophets.  We want to know what the Spirit of the Lord is saying to the Church and to the World.  Prophet Dion Nesmith joined us on January 7, 2012 to speak about the Days of Elijah.

The Prophet began teaching from 1 Kings 17.  The voice of Elijah is still present today.  To understand the voice of Elijah, we would have to understand his prophetic ministry.  Elijah’s lineage is figurative of the prophetic lineage today.  He appeared to have come from out of nowhere.  So it is, today, with prophetic voices that God is raising up, from seemingly out of nowhere.  The authentic prophetic voice does not have to be connected with some great known ministry.  Through Jesus, we all qualify for this assignment.

Elijah’s ministry was one of confrontation.  We must not be afraid to confront Jezebel and Ahab; Jezebel is the spirit of unfaithfulness.  She is designed to cause the Kingdom to be unfaithful to God.  Elijah was raised up to be faithful to God, an we likewise, must be faithful to God and pull down demonic strongholds.  The mantle of Elijah was one that called him to confront false worship.  True prophetic voices in these days must confront false worship.  We must not be afraid to identify and cast down the false altars offered unto idol Gods.

Elijah had such faith and power that when he asked a thing, God did it.  The true prophetic licensee can stand is his own authority and watch his word, come to pass.  Why?  Because the real prophet will speak the Word of the Lord.  The Word cannot fall or fail and it will always accomplish what it has been sent to do.

Not only are we called to live and preach the message of the gospel of the Lord, Jesus Christ, but also like Elijah, have been called to revive the body.  The body of Christ needs revival:  to respond to a Godly hearing.  One one truly “hears”, one will respond.  Revival causes us to do and live because we have heard God.

In this hour, many are deceived as to what is good and God because they must sift through the false values intertwined in celebrachurch ways-the  Bentley and phat money changing between “docs” as symbols of prosperity; huge numbers of parishoners as a great following; and so much anointing and preeminence that leaders cannot commingle with the people.  These things are not reflective of what a true servant of God will often experience.  Elijah was fed by the raven-the filthiest bird- in order to survive a famine, where false prophets were full eating at Jezebel’s table.  There may be times in the lives of true servants where they will have to depend upon God for their own personal existence, yet be the very ones that have been prepared, called, chosen, ordained and anointed with a Word for the Nations.  People may wonder how come this one has so much to say about the Kingdom and is doing such great feats in the Kingdom, but there is NO BENTLEY, MINI-MANSION OR MEGA CHURCH. Yet,  Elijah was so in tune with God that he was translated-never experienced a mortal death.

Elijah was prophetic leadership that trained prophetic successorship:  Elisha.  The established order today, will continue to do like the school of the prophets in Elijah/Elisha’s day.  They will think they have a lock-down on the prophetic, while God will continue to raise up sons who will simply obey Him.  The church is operating under this same pattern, with the religious order waiting for the chosen to jump through hoops and ladders to stand and prophesy with them (do it our way, or no way) on the outside of the real move of God, while those who will obey God are demonstrating the power of God and tearing down the works of outer darkness.

Finally, we must not overlook the flaws of Elijah’s ministry.  No one’s faithfulness or allegiance to God is isolated, no matter how much degradation we see in the world around us.  While Elijah thought he was the only one who wouldn’t compromise, God had to remind him that his pride blinded his vision.  There was an entire body of true prophets who did not bow and eat at Jezebel’s table.  True servants cannot get caught up into their own relationship with God and believe that because it is powerful and even notable by others that it is primary and makes us greater.

For last week’s prayer call recording, visit the prayer page.   Prophetess Sandra Ramsingh joined us and surely, we were edified.

Prophetess Kim

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