How the Holy Spirit Carries the Prophets
Prophecy is Not the Interpretation of Any Man
Christ Yeshua (Jesus) was so continually filled with the Spirit that His spring WAS –IS –WILL BE eternal, and every Word breathed by Him was filled with life giving Spirit. Even His correction or rebuke fanned the Spirit back to life in anyone who accepted His words, because it defeated the spirit of the deceiver and disarmed the power of the enemy (Satan) in the listener.
Joh 6:63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
When I was a small boy we used to float Popsicle sticks and other things along the rain soaked streets when the sewer drains would strain to remove all the water from the heavy spring rains. In my imagination, the sticks were like ships CARRIED ALONG BY THE CURRENT to distant destinations. When He lives in us, the Holy Spirit breathes Truth and Life into what otherwise would be ink on a page or pixels on a screen.
The Holy Spirit does BREATHE LIFE into the words of HaShem’s Children who have been reborn by faith in Christ Yeshua (John 1:12-13).
But my favorite statement of this truth of prophesy by being CARRIED ALONG BY THE SPIRIT is the NIV translation of 2Peter 1:21:
2Pe 1:19 And we have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
2Pe 1:20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation.
2Pe 1:21 For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
They teach lifeguards not to attempt to save anyone who will not give up control and be CARRIED ALONG. So we must allow the man of the earth to die (taking up our cross and following Jesus) (Matthew 16:24), so that Christ can be made alive in us (Galatians 2:20). We have to be willing to jettison the cargo (baggage) of self (Babyon), of desires (sex, food, possessions, violence and territorial instincts, self-gratification) and the spirit of fear. The darkness is heaviness, sin, death. For the Holy Spirit to CARRY US ALONG we have to become children of the light, losing the shackles and the heaviness of sin. Otherwise we cannot walk as Jesus walked, as Jesus WALKS (1John 2:3-6)!
Peace ONLY in Yeshua (NOT from the world),
Love
Michael
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copyright 2009 Michael Frederick
