The Works of the Church

Many of my postings have been along the lines of equipping the saints through prophetic lessons. Lately the Lord has been giving me prophetic insight concerning the times and seasons of the church. Today’s post is along those lines.

A few days ago the Lord gave me a dream wherein the church was celebrating the ending of a season of instruction which had begun in the 1950s. The celebration was a combination of a graduation and a prom, and I had been an instructor. The students were full of joy, and I was ending the season in my room by writing a prophecy for them in gold, silver, and bronze inks. I wrote on an apron, and the prophecy was their destiny. All their training brought them to the point of leaving school and beginning the great works they were trained for.

I could hear the party going on, and the voice of a student who approached a microphone. She encouraged all the others to prophesy. I was very proud of her, as I listened from my room. I then walked out with the apron of destiny. But a sad knowledge sank into my thinking; if I gave the apron to the leaders of the university, they would not pass it on to the students, for they would not see its value.

I walked out into the starry night, hearing the party in the auditorium and glancing at cars from the 50s. No one was there to receive the prophetic apron, and I wondered who would receive the great prophecy to do the works of Christ. That was the end of the dream.

Though this dream held so much destiny for the church, the reality is that all that God has to say to us will not be heard if we do not listen to one another. Jesus asks us to receive one another (Mt 10:41-42). In this dream, a parking lot symbolizes a place of stopping, for a purpose. The students were being equipped, trained for a work. God’s church is at the point of being sent out to do those works, yet many are still celebrating the training. It’s time to go out, yet the time also needs to be coupled with God’s words of destiny.

I remember that, in this dream, the words of destiny were a glory to hear and write. I understood that the apron symbolized works. In a previous dream the Lord also emphasized works. That dream showed me an angel who brought the crucified body of Christ to a table before me. Then the Holy Spirit prayed through me that the body of Christ, the Church, would do the works of Christ. Ever since that dream the Lord has been spurring me on to find and to do His works.

I believe that we will not find the works of Christ to do unless we listen to the Spirit. He will lead us into the works for which He has trained each one of us. However, we need to receive each other to receive all He has to say. May I encourage the leaders of the Church to listen to their flock, and the members of the flock to listen to each other. Also, I would like to underscore the times; that the Lord is leading us out of is equipping, and the times the Lord is leading us into is the works of our destiny. May we attain to the unity of the Spirit and the maturity that comes through each member building the entire body of Christ up by that which he or she has been given by He Who supplies the life to accomplish our full stature in Him. For He is all, and in all. Amen.