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Why Scribal Prophets Could Feel Inadequate

Why Scribal Prophets Could Feel Inadequate

I felt like an oddball. (And sure, I am speaking of what was happening emotionally in my heart. It was real. I had not crossed into the spiritual reality, security or maturity of it on the time.)

When the prophets in training have been called earlier than the congregation to serve within the presbytery, I always wished to carry my notebook and a pen with me. I remember the minister telling me (more than as soon as) that I could not do that. He said it was a distraction for this type of ministry. He said I needed to discover ways to be current for the people and prophesy from my spirit.

Let us just say that as a younger prophet, I didn't like that however I obeyed.

While I realized to comply with the group protocol without offense, I'd stand there… with my fingers "literally burning" beside me, longing to write what I was hearing. My palms can be flushed. The only thing I knew to do was open and close my fists or hold my arms firmly throughout my waist until the evening ended. Typically, I would be so overwhelmed by this need to write that once we were launched from our assignment, I would race to my seat, grab my pen and paper… and frantically write down what I used to be hearing.

No one else was doing this…. and I mean NO ONE. Being so young in the Lord, I really felt inadequate, out of place and awkward. You see, I felt called to write, demonstrate and report while others were releasing audibly... all of the time. Me, well, I wanted to WRITE my prophecy down and READ it from paper – which typically got here poetically, by means of song or required some weird demonstration. I didn't need this because I might tell others thought I used to be showing off... and that WAS NOT IT. In a corporate setting that can be seen as "showboating" when in actual fact, it is solely how "scribal prophets" hear, reply and/or are commanded to release. The demonstrative prophets of the Bible (those that had constant manifestations of this) have been NOT showing off! This is simply how they respond to their office.

I respect the training I acquired tremendously - particularly the correction. Had been it not for those lessons, I may have by no means come up from the pen and notebook. I'd have regulated my life to that of a scribal recluse -- like so many scribal prophets do as we speak because they don't understand "how the reward operates" on a broader level. If not for this training, I might have insisted on my own way instead of learning to walk with a corporate group as well as within one's own scribal metron. I discovered invaluable lessons about prophetic versatility and being open to moving out of your comfort zones or inward unctions. I had to lose that phrase, "This is how God uses me," and embrace the changing conditions. I had to operate IN ORDER as required in sure groups; or within the order of the service within others.

Your Uniqueness

We might not need to change, however Christ in us is well able to adapt to accomplish his purposes. I had to discern between this crazy "leading" as individuals like to say... and really respond to God and his individuals out of TRUE LEADING and HONOR. God used my "uniqueness" to train me learn how to operate prophetically with and without my pen and journal... and stretched me past the acquainted comfort zone.

None of this, nevertheless, modified the truth that I was different from the prophets in that training group. My responses to the prophetic have been scribal in nature – and your responses can be also. When we gain AFFIRMATION concerning WHO we're and WHAT THAT LOOKS like – we will not really feel inadequate or feel awkward anymore.

In case you had been raised in a church, you could have been used to the congregational operation of prophets so to speak. You might even see prophets prophesying to long lines of people, prophets being really spiritual in their delivery, prophets being vocal about just about everything, prophets speaking in scripture, prophets speaking in tongues earlier than they prophesy, prophets releasing words loudly, prophets prophesying in Old Covenant contexts, etc. The list goes on and on and on regarding what you SEE in the natural. This may be misleading to the scribal prophet. Please know that this is not a throw off of any kind… however the "RESPONSES OF A SCRIBAL PROPHET" will probably be different.

I've always been different. And my story, more than likely, resembles yours.

I have prophesied via inspired monologues, poetry, prophetic songs, a collection of skits, performs, spontaneous creative responses, direct words, via books, parables, kinetic typography, etc.… and even releasing like you see in congregational settings. When you permit the Lord to have his way, you will learn to adapt to all kinds of environments. Nevertheless, true scribal prophets will probably be constant within the scribal activity in their lives – it won't be an occasional writer's anointing, that is different.

Remember, a scribal prophet is a totally functioning prophet of Christ as now we have come to understand the prophetic mantle within the context of the New Covenant. The only distinction is that their calling is extremely specialized and tailored to "the scribal realm," a spot in the spirit the place we're consistently residing out the gifts positioned inside us. For example, musicians live within the "musical realm," always hearing music and sound regardless of where they're and what they're doing. They see the world via a healthy, spiritual propensity toward music. Individuals who love dance and movement exist in that realm… and see movement and dance in everything.

Because this dimension of "scribal ministry" just isn't understood in mainstream ministry and prophetic circles, scribal prophets can really feel awkward, misplaced and even query whether or not or not they're prophets because their response to their office is quite totally different!

The understanding of a scribe, the ministry of the scribe, the prophetic scribe, the scribal prophet, the prophetic writer, etc. should be defined within its own merit. Proper now, the apostolic-prophetic congregations (meaning leaders and pastors) are just awakening to what many of us have been doing for a really lengthy time. I am so EXCITED ABOUT THIS! It means that we will quickly see leaders recognizing the necessity for "specialized training" in scribal ministry.