Daily Prophetic Words--Praying for our Global Community

Greetings in the Lord! Well, today's word is one of those challenging ones that causes us to re-examine how we might perceive the many attributes and character of God, as we understand Him to be. It also takes us to the Old Testament, which for many Western/American Christians , is already a dubious place for us to explore such an issue. In many ways it seems the general consensus is that the God of the Old Testament acts altogether different from the God of the New Testament, and quite frankly, many Westerners prefer to hold to the "New Testament" understanding of love and grace. Maybe that's because it can be a feel-good approach that gives "wiggle room" to Christians who ultimately have a desire to compromise with worldly dictates and mindsets. However, such a pleasantly selected view of the Bible doesn't help anyone at all, and ultimately, paints a distorted picture of our Creator. It is incomplete and shortsighted...and dangerous. At any rate, today...

Greetings in the Lord! Yesterday the Lord gave me Psalm 82 to help shed light on a dream I also received. The psalm is a little different in that it refers to people in ruling positions as "gods," and makes the clear point that even though they consider themselves to be 'gods,' they are really just people who will die one day like everyone else. The psalmist urges and warns the 'gods' to do good to people. God presides in the great assembly; He gives judgment among the "gods": "How long will you defend the unjust and show partiality to the wicked? Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked." Those verses tell of stern warnings instead of casual advice from the Lord to those rulers. It also explained to me the dream I had. In the dream I was talking to a reindeer with large antlers (only in a dream can we talk to animals! ha)...