PHANEROO~DEVOTION 26th September 2015 UNDERSTANDING OUR TIMES II Apostle Grace Lubega

[Psalms 74:9];  We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

The scriptures speak of a situation where people were existing in a world where they could not see their individual signs.
There are so many people for whom God has many times stirred up seasons in their lives and appointed times for him to raise them up, but every time he was about to raise them, they did not know the signs.

That is why when you don’t know the times, sometimes he will send a prophet. If the sign is not revealed, at least you will have a prophet that will tell you  what  the Lord is showing them about you. However, there is a dispensation where men don’t see their signs, they don’t have prophets and none of them know. This is what happens in Amos when he speaks of a famine that he sends out and they run to and fro yet faint for thirst.

In Isaiah, the Lord paints an interesting experience. He says, And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.

As opposed to the Amos experience, in Isaiah, there is a hope because the teachers are still present. It doesn’t matter whether they were eating bread of adversity and drinking waters of affliction; their teachers were not taken away. When they sustained a place of the teachers, we find that as the teachers taught, the spirit of God spoke to them showing them the way.

God started to give rain to the seed; he started to distribute the spirit on every message they were preaching because of the presence of a teacher. They could sow seed, their cattle could feed in large pastures because of the presence of the teacher. From our reference scripture,  you realize that there are three things; if a man doesn’t know his sign, he needs a prophet and if a man doesn’t have a prophet, he needs a teacher such that if one doesn’t see his signs, he shall have a prophet to speak in his life, but if he doesn’t have a prophet to speak in his life, amongst his people, there shall be one which knoweth who shall instruct him.

Excerpt from the sermon: UNDERSTANDING OUR TIMES by Apostle Grace Lubega

If a man doesn’t know his sign, he needs a prophet and if a man doesn’t have a prophet, he needs a teacher.

Scripture Reference: Isaiah 30:20-23, Amos 8:11-13

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