It’s coming back
Who am I talking to tonight? I know you're here, (like that Young prophet in our text you’ve
lost something valuable and necessary.
I want to prophesy to somebody tonight. (It's coming back.)
Somebody needs to prophesy to themselves it's coming back.
You may be in a similar situation to the young prophet in our text. You’ve lost something and from all the evidence it's gone.
You look but you can't see.
It is out of sight.
There's something you need to know:
just because you can't see something does not mean its not there.
(It may be lost from your sight, you may not be able to touch it, you may not be able to hear it or feel it. But that doesn't mean it's gone
I have often pass by or overlooked something and thought it was gone, to later discover it was there all the time. To the young prophets credit, he immediately recognizes his loss, He immediately acknowledges his work is ineffective.
He recognizes to continue the work without this axe head would be a fruitless effort.
Let me just pause here to ask a question, how many Christians have been like Samson, they lost the power, the anointing is gone, or like the young prophet, the axe head is gone. But like Samson they continue to shake, but its all flesh, soulish human effort?
They continue on with their axe handle in hand going through the motions still swinging, trying this program and that program, shouting at the right places clapping their hands at the right places, even talking in tongues, but there's no presence, no power, no anointing.
There are many in the body of Christ fall into that category.
There are many who have lost the presence and power, but they keep on swinging.
A lot of action, a lot of noise, but no power.
They fool a lot of people, they even fool themselves, equating action with anointing.
Our scripture text brings to mind the prodigal son, (Like the axehead that fell into a Water hole) The prodigal son fell into a hole. (A pig pen) we don't know how long he was gone, but we do know how low he went. He went to the bottom, like this axe head did.
Then he came to himself.
The father couldn't see his son, like this axe head, he was out of sight, he was on his way home before his father could see him.
In an unseen place something happened. (He got up from the bottom of the pig pen and headed home.)
And I need to prophesy to some moms and dads who have prodigals that are living in the pig pen.
Don't quit praying, don't give up, something is happening, you can't see it, but something is happening. They may be at the bottom of the pit, as low as low can go. But something is happening right there.
This young prophet couldn't see it but down at the bottom of that water hole something miraculous was happening, an iron axe head was lifting up, it was getting up.
Just like the prodigal son, I will arise and go home.
And then the axe head started swimming, it started coming toward an expectant young prophet.
The prodigal started coming toward an expectant father. We know that's true because he saw him a far off.
That means he was praying, praying is watching, that means he was expecting.
I don't know what it is that is lost to you today. I don't know what is out of sight in your life. I don't know what it is that is missing from your life.
But the Lord told me to prophesy to you and tell you, it's coming back. You've got to expect it, like the prodigal sons Father Expected.
Look for it every day, Prepare for it.
The father already had a calf being fattened for the sons homecoming.
He already had a ring ready for his finger, shoes ready for his feet, and a robe ready for his back.
When you expect something you make preparations for it.
Like the mom and dad to be, in their expectations they buy clothes, they make the nursery, they make preparations.
What are you expecting? What are you praying about?
Prayer gives you the right to expect an answer.
The axe head swim within reach of the young prophet, but he still had to reach out his hand and take it.
The hand of faith must reach out and take it.
Faith is the substance of things hope for the evidence of things not seen.
Faith has actions, one of the greatest manifestations of faith is to praise God before the manifestation of the blessing.
It was as Jehoshaphat and the people praised God, that God fought the battle and set an ambushments against their enemies and they killed each other.
They never even saw the battle, the battle took place in a place out of sight.
They couldn't see it, but while their faith was praising God he was fighting their battles.
Anybody can praise God after the victory that's not faith.
Faith looks up walls and mountains that are still standing and says, I'm praising God for the walls falling.
I'm praising God for the mountains being removed.
I'm praising God for my healing, there's pain in my body but his words says by his stripes you are healed so I'm praising him for healing me.
I'm praising him for the breakthrough in my finances, I'm in a bind right now, but the Word says my God shall supply all your needs, So I'm going to praise Him.
I'm going to praise him for my prodigal coming home.
I praise him for restoration in my marriage.
I'm going to praise him for fighting my battles.
I'm going to put out the hand of faith, I'm going to praise him like I already have it.
I praise him for a new anointing.
For restoration of joy in my life.
I praise him for new doors.
I praise him for a new dream.
I'm praising for a new beginning.
I praise in because my fire is coming back.
My passion is coming back.
My desire is coming back.
It's coming back, it's on the way, Its not far away, (It's within reach now.)
I remember where I lost it, I refuse to go on without it, I don’t want an imitation, ( I want the real thing.)
Faith must reach out for it. Faith must bring it in.
I believe something is happening in the body of Christ today, I believe there is an awakening taking place.
Just Like that axe head, and like that prodigal son, the church has also sunk very low, The church has become a source of ridicule and humiliation, there's been so many moral failures, and so many spiritual catastrophes in our leadership that we have lost influence in the world.
Sin has found its way into the church and found a comfortable place on the pews. (Social drinking, gambling, fornication, adultery, homosexuality, pornography,) are found in many of our churches today.
We lost the power we once had with God.
Miracles signs and wonders are relegated to the past.
We justify our lack of spiritual power by saying, those things have passed away, They were only needed in the beginning to establish the new church in its infant stages.
Many of our churches don't even believe in speaking in tongues anymore, much less practice it.
The church has become anemic. We're weak blooded, we have a blood deficiency.
In many of our churches it is out of order to talk about the blood, sing about the blood, or preach about the blood.
Let me say to you, if you have a bloodless church, you have a lifeless church.
Let me say it again if you have a bloodless church you have a dead church.
The life of the flesh is in the blood and the life of the church is in the blood.
Jesus said: Except you eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no life in you. (Jn 6:53)
A body without blood is dead, and so is a church.
Revelations 12:11 and they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb & by the word of their testimony
I believe the church has been like the prodigal son, we've gone a long way the wrong way.
And like the young prophet who lost his power when he lost the axe head, We lost our power.
But its coming back.
That's what I came to tell you. I came to prophesy. It's coming back.
The church is coming to herself. (She's waking up.) She's coming back to the father's house.
She's coming back to holiness, she's coming back to the cross and the blood, and the power of the Holy Spirit.
Somebody right now you're on the verge of your miracle. (It's within reach.)
Now is not the time to give up.
Now is not the time to start murmuring and complaining.
Now is not the time to doubt God and His promises.
Now is not the time to drop back.
Now is the time to break out in praise, now is the time for faith to express itself.
Now is the time to put out the hand of faith and take it.
It's coming back.
Somebody needs to put your faith in action tonight, and praise God like you already have it.
Praise him like the walls of already fallen.
Praise him like your body is already healed.
Praise him like your dream has already come true.
Praise him like your prodigals have already been restored.
Praise him like your marriage is already been healed.
Praise him like you've already been promoted.
Praise him like you're already walking in a new anointing.
Praise him like you've already been delivered.
Praise him like the doctor just said, there's not a trace of cancer in your body.
Somebody said it doesn't make sense to praise him for what I can see.
You're right; it’s not sense, its faith.
Faith operates in the unseen, that's what faith does, that's how faith operates (faith reaches out into the unseen and takes hold of the promise of God and says thank you I believe it's coming back.)
