The Shamar Prophet

The Prophet's Ward

distance; to observe, await-behold, espy, look up, wait for, keep the watch. Shamar means to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e., guard, to protect, attend to, beware, be circumspect, take heed, keep mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save, sure, (that lay) wait, watchman. Natsar means to guard, in a good sense or a bad one (to conceal), besieged, hidden thing, keep, monument, observe, preserve, watcher. Each of these words provides insight into the function of the watchman. As the watchman peers into the distance, receiving forewarning from God, he speaks forth the word that can bring preservation, change, protection, and strategy. (Martha Lucia and Dana Millar) Watchman prophets help prevent the enemy from destroying the church and its leadership. Synonyms for prevent include obstruct, hinder, hamper, block, impede, interrupt, interfere, stop, put a stop to, halt, check, arrest, abort, frustrate, thwart, foil, restrain, hold back, oppose, prohibit, neutralize, and turn aside. No wonder the enemy hates the prophet's ministry. Many things can be prevented through the prophet's ministry. Everything that happens is not necessarily the will of God. God allows what we allow. It is the will of God that many things be prevented. Prophets help us prevent things that are not the will of God. Being a watchman for this ministry, I have often seen the enemy's strategies and, at times, received specific insight ranging from the exact name of the spirit to specific responses in spiritual warfare, which we were to battle with. I have also had a watchman's eye to see the times and seasons of God which we were in. I have watched and warned when the enemy was on the move, when we as a ministry were out of God's spiritual position, or challenged to rise up and lay hold of God's seasons of release and blessing lest we miss what he is doing in our midst. (Marcia Lucia) And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. (Neh. 4:8-9)

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