Prophetic BreakthroughEbook PDF Download
By Hakeem Collins
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Many of God's people know what it means when a health professional tells us to "know our bodies" or to "watch what your body is trying to tell us."
The concept is simple: We should be so aware or conscious of our physical bodies that we can recognize even the slightest change when it occurs. Responding to the warning signs the physical reveals often prevents calamity.
It takes listening and practice to perfect this. But if we learn to do it, it can save our lives as we properly respond to what we hear our physical body is speaking. If we can understand this concept in terms of physical health, how much more important is it for our spiritual health?
1 Timothy 4:8 NLTsays, "Physical training is good, but TRAINING FOR GODLINESS is much better, promising benefits in this life and in the life to come."
One of the greatest lessons I have learned in my spiritual life is how to TRAIN my "inner being," that spiritual part of me that lives and dwells in the House of the Lord. As a scribe, this was critically important to me because a certain level of discipline was and continues to be required if I am to soar into deeper scribal realms.
In other words, paying attention to how my inner-being is affected by its interactions with Holy Spirit is just as important as paying attention to how the right foods and/or exercise affects my physical body.
Paying close attention to even the most minute aspects of my interactions with Holy Spirit allowed me to:
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Sense when God was calling me into intimacy to write or record.
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Pay attention to fleeting thoughts, book ideas by responding immediately to them not later
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Enter the scribal incubation period (the nudge or press to sit down when God calls and write or develop a project versus doing it when I feel like it).
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Know what is spiritually urgent for me and what is not.
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Discern the season to release a project and when to let it sit
Nothing has been more valuable to me in my prophetic life as a scribe than "paying attention" to how Holy Spirit unlocks the scribal realm in my heart. Every serious scribe must undergo SPIRITUAL SENSITIVITY TRAINING in his or her metron. Once it is developed, it becomes as natural to your spiritual walk as breathing.
When our spirits are mature in these areas, we operate on a "prophetic time clock" automatically. I define the "prophetic time clock" as an internal, supernatural awareness of God's leading for your spiritual lifestyle. In my situation, I lead a high-level scribal lifestyle, and my blogs, books, articles, and other scribal activities are dependent on responding to those moments.
It is the Lord's "strategic timing and seasons" for us in the smallest moments in time that matter most to our prophetic process.
When I wrote my first scribal book over a decade ago, I had an URGENCY to finish that book that came nearly close to being "psychotic." I literally could not move forward with my life until I was finished. The experience was unrelenting! Holy Spirit would flood my thoughts with revelation, wake me up at night to add chapters and disturb my normal activities to release pages and pages in that book. My prophetic time clock would not shut down!
The alarm would ring incessantly! I could receive absolutely NO PEACE until that book was printed and in my hands. Then that SUPERNATURAL PRESSURE went away like it was never there. There were times when I wondered if I had dreamed the entire experience.
God was perfecting my internal prophetic-time clock in that season. He was teaching me "when He was ready to connect" vs. me planning time to connect with Him. I was learning how to respond to every single request the Lord sent forth for my attention. Without realizing it, I began to respond to one supernatural encounter after the next until it was my normal way of life.
God wants to make it your normal also. Prophetic scribes and prophetic writers should never struggle to write a book. It should flow like rivers of living water from us. We must learn to be sensitive to every aspect of Holy Spirit in us.
What that Looks Like
When I am washing dishes and he begins speaking, I stop right there and record what I hear or I sit in His presence until the visitation is complete. If I have that unction to write, I do whatever is necessary to pull into that moment and let him minister to me.
So much happens in those times with the Lord that I cannot accurately translate it, but I will tell you this: Responding to him on his time is way better than creating a time for him to meet us. In his tremendous humility, he will meet us on our time, but the greater measure is when we can sense Him and follow. I firmly believe that this was the critical part demonstrated between Mary and Martha.
If we ignore Him, He will withdraw. Thoughts and ideas will be lost. The urgency will vanish and he will find another to obey Him. People teach that the enemy steals our thoughts. I have learned that this is rarely the case. Many times, it is disobedience and failure to act that are the thieves. Even more so, the real thief is the one reflected to us in the mirror.
If a believer can accept this truth, then the road to sensitivity training widens for us, as we are made teachable. My prophetic time clock is sacred to me.
I allow nothing or no one to interrupt it. Period. Sometimes, it lasts for days, as I enter a prophetic incubation period of writing and can complete an entire book in three to five days under the grace of The Scribal Anointing®. Even more amazing is that I know when that book is to be published and when it is to sit.
To master this in your inner being, remain sensitive and responsive to Holy Spirit. I often pray, "Holy Spirit alert me and teach me how to respond."
Get ready to be inconvenienced. Get ready for the timing to be off when he does.
But rest assured that when HE CALLS, he has made provision for the interruption.
Get ready to be BLESSED BEYOND anything you could imagine!
Warning
Just because you are sensitive to the Spirit in other areas, does not mean that sensitivity has transferred into YOUR scribal realm. This is a specialty area and often requires a greater measure of training or, should I say, a different kind of training using different tools.
Cultivate the prophetic scribal time clock in you!
Jeremiah 8:7, "Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the LORD."
Theresa Harvard Johnson
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