Prophetic Word:
Come up! Come out of Your Hiding Place!
Wednesday, Feb 13, 2008
As I was typing this morning, I heard
these words echo in my spirit: "Come up,
come out of your hiding place!"
The Lord is saying today, "Stop hiding,
stop running! I have you in the palm of
my hand. Do not fear .... I am with you.
When you are at your lowest, your
weakest ... I stand strong above you,
below you, to your left and to your
right. Come up ... and come out of your
hiding place!"
Receive the Word of the Lord 1 Kings
19:1-15
1
Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah
had done and how he had killed all the
prophets with the sword.
2
So Jezebel sent
a messenger to Elijah to say, "May the
gods deal with me, be it ever so
severely, if by this time tomorrow I do
not make your life like that of one of
them."
The
Lord is saying: Don't be fooled by
the adversaries plan to DESTROY you,
your reputation, your ministry and to
cause you to become a vagabond and
recluse among the saints.
3
Elijah was afraid [a]
and ran for his life. When he came to
Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant
there,
4
while he himself went a day's journey
into the desert. He came to a broom
tree, sat down under it and prayed that
he might die. "I have had enough, LORD,"
he said. "Take my life; I am no better
than my ancestors."
5
Then he lay down under the tree and fell
asleep.
The Lord is
saying: Do not give up! I have
called you to greater! Do you not know
that I am with you! The only defeat you
will experience in your life is when YOU
give up. I, your God, will never give up
on you.
All at once an angel touched him and
said, "Get up and eat."
6
He looked around, and there by his head
was a cake of bread baked over hot
coals, and a jar of water. He ate and
drank and then lay down again.
The Lord is
saying: GET UP! COME OUT! COME OUT
OF YOUR HIDING PLACE! I desire to make
an open show of your adversaries; but I
can't do it ... if you lay down and die.
The angel of the LORD came back a second
time and touched him and said, "Get up
and eat, for the journey is too much for
you."
8 So he got up and ate and drank.
Strengthened by that food, he traveled
forty days and forty nights until he
reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
9
There he went into a cave and spent the
night.
And
the word of the LORD came to him: "What
are you doing here, Elijah?"
The Lord is
saying: Expect a visitation from me!
Surely, I have come.
He replied, "I have been very zealous
for the LORD God Almighty. The
Israelites have rejected your covenant,
broken down your altars, and put your
prophets to death with the sword. I am
the only one left, and now they are
trying to kill me too."
11
The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the
mountain in the presence of the LORD,
for the LORD is about to pass by. Then a
great and powerful wind tore the
mountains apart and shattered the rocks
before the LORD, but the LORD was not in
the wind. After the wind there was an
earthquake, but the LORD was not in the
earthquake.
The Lord is
saying: I am going to instruct you!
I shall shake the foundations of your
enemy. Behold, I have given thee POWER!
12-13
Then a voice said to him, "What
are you doing here, Elijah?" After the
earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was
not in the fire. And after the fire came
a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it,
he pulled his cloak over his face and
went out and stood at the mouth of the
cave.
14
He replied, "I have been very zealous
for the LORD God Almighty. The
Israelites have rejected your covenant,
broken down your altars, and put your
prophets to death with the sword. I am
the only one left, and now they are
trying to kill me too."
15
The LORD said to him, "Go back the
way you came, and go to the Desert of
Damascus. When you get there, anoint
Hazael king over Aram.
16
Also, anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king
over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of
Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you
as prophet.
17
Jehu will put to death any who escape
the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put
to death any who escape the sword of
Jehu.
18 Yet I reserve seven thousand
in Israelā€"all whose knees have not
bowed down to Baal and all whose mouths
have not kissed him."
The Lord is saying: Go back to
Damascus -- that hard place. That place
of blindness. That place of war ... and
I WILL MEET YOU THERE! Yes, says the
Lord. I have already declared your end
from the beginning.
