Ep 200 (3/20/2021): Tozer Devotional Breakdown: Prophetic Preachers

A. W. Tozer on Christian Leadership, March 20 Devotion:

Title: Prophetic Preachers

Scripture: 1 Chronicles 12:32 - From the Issacharites, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do: 200 chiefs with all their relatives under their command.

Devotion: A prophet is one who knows his times and what God is trying to say to the people of his times...

Today we need prophetic teachers-not preachers of prophecy merely, but preachers with a gift of prophecy. The word of wisdom is missing. We need to gift of discernment again in our pulpits. It is not ability to predict that we need, but the anointed eye, the power of spiritual penetration and interpretation, the ability to appraise the religious scene as viewed from God‘s position, and to tell us what is actually going on...

What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present. Learning will enable a man to pass judgment on our yesterdays, but it requires a gift of clear seeing to pass sentence on our own day...

Another kind of religious leader must arise among us. He must be of the old prophetic type, a man who has seen visions of God and has heard a voice from the throne.

Prayer: Lord, I pray for the gift of prophetic insight. Move me beyond the knowledge you’ve enabled me to gain through education, reading and study. I pray that I might lead as one “who has seen visions of God and has heard a voice from the throne.” In Jesus name I pray. Amen!