Set apart for God
January 28, 2008
Sunday night we had a wonderful time with my friend and prophet of God, Tony Ling, together with around sixty other people hungry for God. Tony Ling gave us some very exciting insight into the prophetic people we have been set apart to be through the new birth by the prophetic Spirit of God. I believe all of us who were present were encouraged and strengthened in our inner being. The prophet of God was able by the grace of God to show us how being prophetic is our nature as children of God, and how to increase and develop the indwelling anointing in us.
This morning I was reading in Deuteronomy 10:8-13 on being set apart to carry the Ark of the Lord's Covenant, and to stand before the Lord as his ministers, and to pronounce blessings in his name.
This is just another description of what it means to be a prophetic community. It is being set apart for God to carry the Ark of the covenant, the sign of God's presence among his people, that was to be moved by the leading of the Spirit only. Our first calling in life is to stand before God to love and worship him, and to minister to him. When we have been in the presence of God we will be able to bring blessing to people around us and the society at large.
The Lord requires all our attention. He wants our hearts and minds. He wants our entire life to be directed towards him. Only then we will be able to serve him and see all his promises fulfilled!