The Blowing Wind of Prophetic Revelation

Last week, we attended a prayer meeting at our local Presbyterian church, and I do not exaggerate when I say that the wind of the Holy Spirit sovereignly and supernaturally blew through that place.

The word wind has actually been stirring in my spirit as of late. One particular passage that I have been hung up on is John 3:8, where Jesus dialogues with Nicodemus about the second birth. He likens the invasive, redemptive move of the Holy Spirit in a person to the nature of the blowing wind,

“The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit." (ESV)

I still haven’t mined this passage’s depths, but the Holy Spirit has revealed a few things about His movement and activity through this particular verse: The wind is God-originated and God-designated. In short, the wind is God, as it is the Spirit of God serving as the Messenger of the Revelation of God. He “comes out” of God and in turn, goes where God supernaturally directs. This verse reveals two aspects of God that tend to make the church nervous: He is both supernatural and sovereign.

Monday evening, this sovereign, supernatural wind of God blew through that prayer meeting and, by unction of the Holy Spirit, men and women began to prophesy. So often, I have observed the practice of prayer as one-dimensional, the currency of simply getting from God. Yes, we are to “ask” and make petition. God instructs it. However, there is a deeper, greater dimension of this sacred communication, where the one praying ceases trying to move God to do something and instead, God becomes the mover.

God releases prophetic insight into the spirit of the one praying, and rather than praying to God for something, that person starts praying from God about something. The person becomes a bold prophetic voice, for the things pouring forth from their spirit and ultimately out of their mouth are not “wouldn’t it be nice if God did this,” fantasies. They are prophetic realities that the Father desires to make manifest “on earth” through releasing the person, passion and power of Christ Jesus through his body (known as the Church).

Let’s enter prayer with prophetic expectation. Let’s step beyond prayer lists. They’re good. They’re necessary. But they are not the One Thing - Jesus is. Sometimes we act like what we say TO God is more important and deserving of emphasis than what God is saying… yes, to us... but what He’s saying TO us and THROUGH us is not all ABOUT us. Simply, it is all about God filling the Earth with God—first comes the “knowledge of His glory” and then BAM, then comes His manifest glory, and in the end, God receives all the glory. Period.