PROPHETIC SUBSTANCE by IAN JOHNSON

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PROPHETIC SUBSTANCE
By IAN JOHNSON
ianjohn@xtra.co.nz


God is calling us to renew the apostolic/prophetic foundation of our faith and to move out of the soul and into a realm that is measured by the impact and reality of the spiritual realm. Oswald Chambers wrote "Am I allowing my natural life to be slowly transfigured by the indwelling life of the son of God? God's ultimate purpose is that His Son might be manifested in my life." This is a good question and one which demands an answer.

Do you Love Me?

At our meeting in Gore a southern town in New Zealand this week, the Lord laid on my heart a challenge for the people. It was "if an unusual vessel brings the word for Gore will you listen?" The Lord had me repeat this several times just like Jesus did with Peter when he said "Do you love me?" The answer from the people was an ever louder yes, almost with Peters impatience "You know we will" The Lord responded to this immediately and suddenly a young woman in the meeting with a speech impediment had an open vision where she saw straight into heaven, just like Stephen in Acts 7 where it says"He gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God." As she gazed into His majesty she began to speak very clearly the things she heard no impediment or stutter just a release of what she was seeing. Jesus was giving instructions regarding His desire to heal His people and then He was giving specific instructions to individuals who responded to the call to healing. The atmosphere changed as heaven flowed into the room through the sights and sounds she was releasing. She became animated and excited because Jesus was speaking to His people in a love language that thrilled her heart and because of who she was she was able to express the whole emotion and feel of His language. The atmosphere changed again and the man standing behind her holding her up said "This is very special" As I looked at her I was inspired by her face and her expressions of joy, as she spoke with childlike abandonment, about the things she heard and saw in heaven.
To see the joy on a face when heavens door rolls back and the scene is revealed is just about as good as seeing it yourself. It's like fragrance that suddenly captures a dream or wind that cools summers air. It burns in your heart and thirsts in your soul till you long to see the door yourself. When that person hears the sounds of heaven and releases them into this world its like your whole being is captured by waves of glory, passion for the eternal realm is stirred and worship for the King is released.


Faith is the Substance

This door builds faith and the sights and sounds become substance in earth's realms just as it says in the book of Hebrews chapter 11"Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things unseen" So a glimpse into heaven needs to be released through testimony in order to gain the substance of the unseen in this realm.

Prophetic utterances are not just a few good words that come out of the soul of man, rather they are a release of substance that has been seen in the spiritual realm and then spoken into the earthly realm. The vision has moved from unseen to seen by the release of our testimony. "The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy"

All prophecy recorded in the bible came from a revelation of the unseen realm such as Ezekiel's word in chapter 37 where the Lord says to Him "Son of man can these bones live?" What bones? The bones that he had seen when he was carried in the spirit and set down in the midst of them. Ezekiel was there, it wasn't a picture or a feeling he was carried and set down in the midst.

Gentiles are in the kingdom today because in Acts 10, Peter in a trance saw into another realm and he saw clean and unclean animals and plants on a sheet, the Lord said Peter take and eat but Peter said No Lord for I have never eaten unclean things; The Lord replied, That which I call clean is clean. Peter chose to release that which he had seen in the unseen realm into this realm by speaking it to Cornelius and his household and the glory of that one encounter endures to this day.

True Prophetic Ministry

The importance of release transcends time and brings eternity into this realm. Gore may very well be changed forever because words were spoken out of Heaven into this realm. I want to encourage you to seek Jesus where He is; in the unseen realm and then when he reveals Himself release it into this realm. Its time for the Church to enter into this level of the prophetic again and move out of soulish immaturity. This is true Prophetic ministry and the very foundation of the church. This is a season to move out of the council of men where the realm of the soul reigns and move into the foundation of the apostles; (Jesus being the chief among them) where the spirit reigns. That which comes out of the soul sounds good because it stimulates the soul; but we must move beyond our soul into a zone that is uncomfortable to the soul and release the true spirit of prophecy.

The outcome of such a prophetic revelation is; "Heaven released" it has Substance it is not ethereal or flaky it is a transforming glory it is the Kingdom released on earth as it is in heaven. It is the answer to Oswald Chamber question "Am I allowing my natural life to be slowly transfigured by the indwelling life of the son of God?"

IAN JOHNSON
His Amazing Glory Ministries