Bible Texts: Gen.20:4-7, Job 22:28, Num.6:22-24, Deut.6:6-10, 1Sam.7:5, Job 42:8, 1Jn.5:16, Jn.10:10, Heb.11:1-6, Heb.11:32-33, Jer.33:3, Matt.7:7, 1Jn.4:17
I want you to move a step higher in your journey to becoming the good and godly husbandman. And that is to enter into the prophetic office and operate as a prophet. God has provided the office of the prophet for you to occupy and function in.
And ye shall decree a thing and it shall come to pass (Job 22:28)
This is one of the most profound empowerment statements that confer enormous authority on you as the good and godly husbandman. And today, God wants you to begin to operate in that realm, where you decree a thing and it shall come to pass. I mean, operating in the prophetic office of the good and godly husbandman.
Now therefore restore the man (husband) his wife, FOR HE IS A PROPHET and he shall pray for thee and thou shalt live. (Gen.20:7)
A king took the wife of Abraham, perhaps because he thought that he was strong and mighty. He did not realize that there is a bigger God than he was. So God appeared to him and commanded him to return Sarah to her husband, Abraham. Interestingly, God added a qualification to the husbandman, Abraham. God said to the king, “restore the man (Abraham) his wife (Sarah), for he (Abraham is a PROPHET (Gen.20:7)”.
So Abraham prayed unto God and God healed Abimelech, and his wife and his maidservants, and they bare children (Gen.20:17)
God called the husbandman, Abraham a prophet. And because you and I are seeds of Abraham through redemption, we have the grace to operate in the prophetic as Abraham did.
As Jesus is, so are we in this world (1Jn.4:17)
Jesus Christ, the perfect example of the good and godly husbandman, operated in the prophetic while He was on earth. And as He is so are we as husbandmen in this world.
As a prophet in your home, no one has the right to steal from you, your wife or children, their health, peace, joy, strength, emotion, physical agility. Not even a king, not satan, not sin not the world (Jn.10:10). You don’t have to have a church to become a prophet. You don’t have to be ordained by the church council for you to become a prophet. Your position as the head of the family comes with it the prophetic grace. This means you can function powerfully as a prophet over your wife and children.
Abraham prayed for the king and his household and the yoke of barrenness was destroyed. As a prophet, you can pray for your sick wife or child, whether it is spiritual, emotional or physical, and they shall recover. You can decree God’s counsel over them in every area of their lives and it shall come to pass. You can decree peace and quietness over every storm between you and them, and there shall be great calm. You can reverse every negative tendency in their lives. You can break the power of satan, sin and the world, influencing ungodliness in their lives (Eph.2:2). You can also rescue them from those ungodly habits through the prophetic grace that is working in your life as the head of the home.
However, for you to operate in this glorious office, you must have a personal relationship with God, through His Son, Jesus Christ. You must be born again (Jn.3:3-7). You must also be conscious of the truth that you are a prophet, believe (faith) that you are a prophet and act like one by declaring boldly the full counsel of God as written in the word of God (Heb.11:32-33, Heb.11:6, Heb.11:1-3).
The prophetic office is your heritage in God through Jesus Christ. Activate this grace!
SPIRITUAL EXERCISE
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to function maximally as a prophet over my wife and children.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, confirm every prophetic word that proceeds out of my mouth in the direction of my wife and children.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, increase my faith in You and Your word as I operate in the office of the prophet.
FAITH CONFESSION
God has called me a prophet and now I am operating in the prophetic grace because that is what adds value to my calling as the good and godly husbandman in Jesus name. Amen.
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Bro. Ebenezer O. Igure
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