Published on June 12th, 2009 | Articles, Guest Posts

This guest post comes to us from Graham Cooke at Graham Cooke Ministries.

Living The Word

Graham Cooke

God wants prophetic voices which have experienced the things they are speaking. God never drops a word into a life and leaves it at that. Instead, He nurtures the word, putting the Holy Spirit into action to bring unction and experiences. He explains His word time and again.

This is why every Christian needs to journal. I keep several journals that I write in all the time. All of my talks and books start their life in my journal. I set aside time to meditate, to think deeply and be absorbed by thought. I write and think about what God is saying to me. I mine everything I can out of the revelation God gives me. I dig through the word, looking for every ounce of truth.

God loves that type of intentionality. He will keep explaining His word and breathing it over us because He is committed to grounding something in our spirit.

Supporting a prophetic word means giving it more than once. We have to keep speaking it until the Holy Spirit tells us to stop. Our mission as prophets is to find creative ways to give the word, so it is not boring or monotonous. To accomplish this, we need to be passionate and wise about the word. How can we deliver something we do not understand? We have to let God energize us and reveal the depth of His wisdom to us.

I have given the same word as many as a dozen times. The key is to not become exasperated by the word, but be empowered by it. People who have attended more than one of my conferences or schools notice that I say the same thing several times. This isn’t because I’m short of material, it’s because I’m trying to nurture listeners into a new way of thinking about God and about themselves. I know that if someone starts to see themselves as God sees them, nothing on earth can stop them.

The prophetic steers, influences, and inspires people to stand up because they realize how great they are in Christ. When we know the magnitude of what God has for us as an individual, we cannot help but stand tall for Him. Our personality and attitudes are redefined by this revelation. Our outlook and perspectives shift. In short, we mature.

We must mentor and monitor one another until a full change of heart takes place. God will not let any of us go until His word is fulfilled—until we get it, we speak it, we hear it, we see it, we eat it, we drink it, we stand in it, we walk in it, we run with it, we fight with it, we live with it.

In Exodus, Moses had to see what God wanted him to be. His self-esteem was so low that all he could offer God at the burning bush was excuses. “I can’t,” Moses said. “You will,” answered God. Finally, God laid out very plainly His plan for Moses: “See, I make you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet,” (Exodus 7:1).

By the time God was finished with transforming Moses, the most powerful king on earth could only describe him as a god. That’s the only word he could find in the terminology of his twisted belief system. Imagine how secure God must be in Himself to let an earthly king think of Moses as a god? The Lord elevated Moses to a place of power so profound that it influenced the entire Middle East. All Moses had to do was believe.

We must hear the word and then see it. What we see and hear, we must speak out. Each of us needs to confess who God has made us to be. All along the way, God will nurture us, one step at a time.

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