David Gross
April 11, 2024
This month, The Lord has put it on my heart to talk about the things that I have learned about the prophetic since receiving my calling back in 2018. First and foremost, I want to say that I only have the Lord to thank for giving me this task, as well as giving me these blessings to give people prophetic word, knowledge, and encouragement according to God’s perfect Will and timing.
This leads me to the first thing that I learned about the prophetic: The prophetic is not all about foretelling future events. The prophetic is also about correction, exhortation and comfort. Second Timothy 3:16 states, “All scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.” Those that are in the prophetic are God’s mouthpieces; they are the ones that get the Word directly from God via a dream, a vision, someone else, etc. and give that word (whether it be a teaching word, a correction, or a comforting word) to whoever it is designed for at the proper time.
However, by far the most important thing I learned about the prophetic is that it is on a “need-to-know” basis. In other words, I will only reveal bits and pieces of whatever the rhema is to the designated person that God tells me to talk to at the right time, and only if and what He directs me to tell them; nothing more, nothing less. Why is this? First of all, I don’t need everyone knowing that I’m in the prophetic, nor do I want that type of attention, good or bad. Secondly, not everyone will know or understand what I’m talking about and why I’m speaking to them. Why do you think Jesus spoke in parables? Finally, there are a lot of people that will throw the phrase “false prophet” out there if I say the wrong thing at the wrong time. This is why it is so important to heed to Proverbs 3:5: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.”
Unless otherwise directed, all Bible verses are derived from the English Standard Version.