I love the prophetic, I love giving and receiving prophetic words, I love how prophecy ignites hope, establishes truth and builds us inside strong. Moses said, oh that all of God’s people would prophesy. It has been amazing listening to prophetic voices online and in person. It has been a learning experience for all of us to learn the difference between a prophetic word of encouragement and a prophetic warning; between a prophetic unction to function and a confirmation of something we already know.

The prophetic is not gender specific, but is available for all to do. Acts 2 fulfilled Joel 2 when Peter says on the day of Pentecost, quoting what God said through Joel, “I will pour out my spirit on all flesh, your sons and daughters shall prophesy.” Prophesy is proclaiming the words of God to the people of God. Some don’t think women should be preachers, but God says we can ALL prophesy. So, if you don’t think we women should be preaching, then just call it prophesying, because that is biblically established in both the Old and New Testament.

In Judges 4, Deborah, a prophetess, speaks a work to Barak the commander of Israel’s army. I love this word, for it is establishing in Barak what God already told him, but he wasn’t doing. “Has not the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded you, ‘Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun. And I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jabin’s army, to meet you by the river Kishon with his chariots and his troops, and I will give him into your hand’?” Deborah encouraged him, prophetically, to do what God told him to do, but wasn’t yet doing.

All these side issues about gender must die in the body of Christ, because here is a woman leading a man in the Old Testament. God is using both men and women, young and old, rich and poor, slave and free, Jew and Gentile, for the kingdom of God is at hand and we all are called to prophesy. Let’s go, we have land to take, a harvest to bring in, and glory to give to God!!!!