Prophet of Your Household

You are your family's prophet. That is who you are if you are married and/or if you have children or dependents. that's how God sees you. That's how your spouse and children regard you, whether they are conscious of it or not. Your spouse and children, according to their nature, expect you to speak life into their lives. They expect you to have the steering wheel in hand. They expect you to know where the ship is going and how to take them there.

If we as fathers are to be honest with ourselves, we need to admit that this task is overwhelming, to say the least. However, the good news is that in Christ we have all our abilities and gifts revived and empowered according to the riches of His glory. He has seated us with Him in the heavenly places and given us the authority according to His mercy and grace. We are more than overcomers. We are conquerors. We are no longer what we used to be. We are a new creation and the new creation does not live in the past, defeated, in despair or in the unknown. The new creation reigns with Christ.The new creation worships God in Spirit and in truth. The new creation testifies to Jesus and the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. In other words, we live in the events that are to come in the now. We speak, we act, we think, we decide according to what we see the Father doing ahead of us, in the spiritual, beyond the temporal. We are prophets of our age. We are prophets of our lives and our families, and then to our ministries, churches, cities, nations and the world! 

I always try to help my kids learn to hear what God is speaking to them. So I pray with them. I ask them if they can feel what I feel or hear what I hear. I let them know what I hear God is speaking to them. I seek to help them grow in a spiritual atmosphere, and I do not mean just teaching them kids hymns and show bible cartoons.

Concerning my 2 year old son, God spoke and said "Samuel, you have a large heart" and God confirmed it to me when a sister prophesied the same, saying that he will become an evangelist. The same happened for my 4 year old daughter. God said that she will be of great stature and others testified that she will be a teacher of God's Word. These proclamations which God confirms are not mere predictions. These are prophecies spoken in faith. They are life-giving words released from the spiritual into the physical. These words feed a child's life more than natural food and vitamins. These words edify, build up and straighten a path before them. These are God's words, handed over to us, entrusted to us, to use them wisely and diligently.

While praying with my wife and a sister from our church, she saw in her spirit a building under construction, which represented me and I took into my structure my wife and children, and we formed a perfect unity. This building had radars on top and could catch the thundering signals from heaven. Every father is called to ministry. Every household is called to ministry on earth and in the church. If we don't involve all of our household members in the ministry, then our ministry will be incomplete and will not be able to communicate the heavenly on the earth.

We are God's people. We need to act like it. We are Christ's ambassadors and we need to get the Embassy in order. We are the salt of the earth and the light, which shines in the darkness. We are here for a reason and we are here for a short time.

While prophesying over a family from our church, God showed me a thick wool-threaded tent, with only the top covered and four sides open in a desert with a clear desert night sky, full of stars. It was a reference to Abraham and God calling him out of the tent to gaze at the stars and encounter God's love's greatness in the innumerable stars. God said that they lived under His covering, in the heavenly places as well as on earth at the same time. It was like when God lift up the prophet from his hair and he was hanging between the heavens and the earth. God said they are a family, which lives somewhere between heaven and earth. He also revealed that they are there only for a season just as nomads or people living under tents only set up camp to stay for a short period of time and never indefinitely. We are sojourners, passing by, sowing in some and reaping others. Nomad prophets entrusted with a great task. God's generals and God's leaders paving the way for future generations, until Christ's glorious return.

I pray that you may be encouraged to take a stand in your authority and claim what is your rightful inheritance. It is a natural desire in man to leave an inheritance to his children. The greatest treasure anyone can leave to his children is the legacy in the Kingdom of God. May the Lord be glorified by your service and worship.