“The biblical prophet doesn’t predict the future but bears witness to the presence of God in history” – Nicolas Gomez Davila

In the depths of the soul lies the keys to unlock the secrets that produce greatness. The problem is not the lack of treasure, as much as the ability to find it and release it. The secret things are mysteries but there is a whisper echoing from that veiled place crying for Freedom. When we learn to hear the whisper it will lead us to know the voice of the One who dwells in the hidden place. Treasure! Secret! Mysteries! Sounds like a fictional story filled with unbelievable characters, an imaginative story line, and an anticipated end where the lead personality wins everything, but only after an amazing journey from the depths of darkness, persecution, and temptation. Every great hero must be tested in order to win the victory. The reality of these things cannot be adequately conveyed either vocally or written. Imagination and fiction cannot compare with the reality of Truth that God wants to reveal to those willing to hide in the secret place of the Almighty. This is not a story of fiction but in order to gain the victory one must face his/her own humanity in light of their spirituality.

Deuteronomy 29:29 says: “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law. God has secret things, but he wants to reveal those things to us so they can become ours. The prophetic is the key that unlocks these mysteries. God has a secret code and he longs to disclose these hidden things to His servants. Amos 3:7 says: ” Surely the Lord does nothing Unless He reveals His secret counsel to His servants the prophets.” The Lord wants to open the mysteries of heaven through prophetic insight and declaration. Psalm 91:1 says: “He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty”. When we come into His place of rest, His virtue begins to pour into us so that when we speak as an ambassador for His Kingdom, His divine nature is expressed.

Isaiah 6 is one of my favorite stories because it illustrates exactly what transpires when we come to the secret place. Isaiah was a palace prophet. Many scholars have suggested that he was a family member of the kings and he already had access to a privileged life. When he had this vision is revolutionized his way of thinking. He received the secret code from the Lord. After seeing the angels and listening to their worship, he becomes a broken man. He got a glimpse of the Lord. He recognized his humanity and realized that without a touch from heaven he would remain unclean. After Isaiah becomes sanctified, he is allowed to witness a conversation. It is the trinity speaking. They say in verse 8, “who will go for Us.” Isaiah understood that he was the only one that this question could have been for. He responded, ” I am right here, send me!” So the Lord said go. It is interesting that after he receives his assignment in Chapter 6, that in Chapter 7 He begins prophesying about the child Immanuel. After Isaiah found himself in the secret place, a mystery was unveiled to him. A Messiah was coming. Isaiah was able to prophesy in earth what God revealed to him in heaven.

Prophetic anointing must be internal before it can become external. The one operating with a strong prophetic anointing must hide away in the secret so that God can reveal to them His treasures. When it becomes an internal actuality, it will become an external reality.

Show me your ways

Throughout history of mankind, all men have had a desire to know the future. It is this fascination that causes people to seek after supernatural things that are projected to reveal the future. Many people have been taught that it is wrong to desire things that are futuristic. The justification comes from scriptures like not worrying about tomorrow for today holds its own problems (Matt. 6:34, Prov. 27:1). These scriptures are good to balance us and give us understanding that every day will take care of itself and that our primary purpose should be to seek the Kingdom. It does not mean that we cannot think or even desire a better future. The prospect and the hope that is created through prophetic declarations create an expectation that God has greater things in store.

Moses said in Exodus 33:13: ” Now therefore I pray thee that if I have found grace in your sight, show me now your way, that I may know you….”

David asked in Psalm 25:4: “Show me your ways O Lord, teach me thy paths.”

Jeremiah wrote in Jer. 42:3: “That the Lord thy God may show us the way in which we should walk and the thing that we may do.”

The word way(s) is very important. In the Hebrew the word is deh’-rek. The word means more than just a way to do something. It means the next course of action. So what are these great men of God asking? Lord, show me the future! Show me what you intend on doing next. Along with this, is a great desire to know their part within that plan. It is a natural desire for man to look for his future. When we know the plans and purposes for what God created us to be or to accomplish, we can put our efforts into bringing that potential into a reality.

The prophetic helps us to know the next course of events for our lives or for someone else’s. Let me give an example. I have had so many wonderful things that have happened due to the prophetic anointing, these pages simply could not contain it. One of the things that I have been used by the Lord prophetically is concerning children. By the Spirit I have seen pregnant woman that in the natural they were not even pregnant. Some had been told they were barren. The Lord, on many occasions has revealed to me about their barrenness and about the desire to have children. I received an email a few months ago with a video attachment. As I watched the video, I remembered that day. There was a young lady in a service. I called her and her husband to the front. Through a word of knowledge I told them that she was barren and that she could not conceive. Immediately she began to weep. The Holy Spirit showed me that He was healing her and that she would become pregnant. I told her that within the next year she would have a daughter. I found out later that they had been trying for several years but the doctors said that she did not have the capacity to have children. After I watched the video, I noticed another attachment to the email. It was pictures of the woman and she was 7 months pregnant. Two months later I received another email of the pictures of their beautiful baby daughter. All of this happened within 10 months from the prophecy. What happened? Eternity met reality and God showed us His ways (the next course of events for their life).

When we pray for God to reveal His ways and His plans for our lives or for someone else, we activate the prophetic and it releases revelation from an eternal realm into a natural realm where God shows us His ways. Don’t be afraid when God shows you ways that seem impossible. The prophetic will cause you to see the invisible, and believe the impossible. When God shows His ways, He moves heaven and earth to bring it to pass. We can expect Him to perform His purposes (Ecclesiastes 3:1).

We can not continue to say that we know God and be unaware of what He is doing or what His ways are. Moses knew the Lord in an intimate way. The Lord even said that Moses was not like other prophets where he spoke to them in dreams and visions. The Lord said He spoke to Moses face to face in an open and intimate way (Num. 12:7-8). The Bible says in Psalm 103:7 that the Lord revealed His acts to the sons of Israel but He made known His ways to Moses.

“To know the ways of God is to become knowledgeable of the motives of His heart and intimate with the secrets of His passions. It is to be amazed at the resolve of His love and compelled to humility by His attraction to the lowly” (Frangipane 10). The commonality between most of the patriarchs and matriarchs of the Bible is that they found in the secret place the mysteries that unlocked the riches of His Kingdom. The greatness of every man and woman begins with a step of faith into the unknown realm of glory so that when exposed to light once more, they reflect a beauty that can only be expressed as Divine.