The Downside of the Prophetic

On 15th June this year, I had just returned home from a powerful service. I had just come out of the shower when I found twisted faces in the sitting room.

My uncle was holding his cheek, with such misery. No one dared to breathe a word.

I asked what was wrong.

“Emma has died …”

I wondered what Emma, as my body suddenly stopped every system within my body to listen to what answer my cousins would say.

It turned out it was the Emma I follow, my mother’s first born! Suddenly everything colorful turned grey.

I’ll tell of the details in another post. But after the bustle and the burial; part of my frustration was, “Why…?”

Why didn’t God warn me? Why didn’t God warn us?

This was the same frustration I had when my best friend Sam died in 2021. But it turned out, that I was wrong. It is I — or we — who didn’t see the ‘warnings’.

For Sam, I remember visiting him 2 weeks before his death to pray with him. I went to TMR hospital, but God had asked me to carry olive oil. As we prayed, I smeared the oil on Sam’s face, arms, and neck.

My mind couldn’t comprehend what was going on. I was being led by the spirit all the way. When Sam passed on, it was the week towards Easter Sunday. And there and then, as I read the Bible, I came across Mary’s incident, where she washed Jesus’ feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. Then she anointed him with that expensive perfume.

Then the reality hit me;

Jesus mentioned that he had entered that house and he wasn’t given water to wash his feet but Mary anointed him and ‘prepared him for his death.’

That’s when it was revealed in my spirit that I had been ‘Mary’ to Sam. I had prepared him for his death. AND I DIDN’T KNOW IT!

On 12th, Emma was admitted to a rehab center. He was experiencing mental issues. That morning, a prophetic friend prayed with me, and she said to me that on the throne of my family, there sat no one. “Take on the throne.” She said. “Sit and reign says the Lord.”

Of course this was figurative of a position of responsibility. And I thought this was because I had been heir to my father.

When I asked God why he didn’t warn me, He critically brought that prophecy back. If you notice, first borns usually sit on ‘thrones’ by default. This was indirectly informing me of Emma’s exit, but, I DIDN’T KNOW.

The 14th, I dreamt Emma being dragged by big strong men from a kitchen towards the main door of a house. In the dream, since I had discovered that he had been admitted, I thought it meant that, but it was revealed … that those men represented death, taking Emma out of this realm.

I WAS ANGRY!

I WAS MAD!

I knew it all but I didn’t do anything.

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1 John 2:20 says we know all things.

I’m not speaking to prophets; but to the entire fraternity of spiritual beings. Having the Holy Spirit in you qualifies you to know all these things, but, you may miss it many times — and that’s the downside to it all.

The Holy Spirit is God; and Him knowing the future, and being in you, throttles you into some class of the prophetic, even if your office may not necessarily be that. You may also be a ‘normal person’, but dreams aren’t dreamt by prophets alone. Pharaoh dreamt about seven years of drought that could have ended the earth.

He could’ve missed it if he brushed it off. Or if Joseph wasn’t around to interpret the dream.

I pray that God will always bring us back to the signs that come our way so that we don’t feel the sting of having missed it, and yet we knew about it all along.

Amen and Amen.