The prophet's handbook

poured in. Similar to the meticulous and elaborate ritual undergone by the Levitical priesthood, these new creation ministers are made ready for service. Love, mercy, wisdom, and grace are filling the breaches and broken gaps in these vessels. Every cracked hole is filled as though it had never been broken. Warped outlooks, biased opinions, and perverted viewpoints are straightened to allow the path of truth to flow freely through the messengers. Carnal appetites and desires are replaced with the heavenly; every selfish yearning and pursuit is excised in order to align the prophets’ existence with the will of God. Holiness adorns the messengers, and truth fills the Lord’s temple. The structure is recomposed of love and every furnishing tool of the Holy Spirit. To get the prophets ready, every supply now comes from above as the stringent lessons and orientation process impress upon the newly renovated servants that this is life from now on. Now they are ready, ready to be taught and groomed. Ready to learn. Death has moved out, and life has moved in. God is on the throne of these lives, and Christ reigns in their hearts. It is done. Now the vessels are “meet for the Master’s use” (2 Timothy 2:21). The renewed ministers are then brought to the Lord to receive their charges. They are taught their mission, its approach, and God’s standards, will, and way. They are made to comprehend their boundaries, privileges, limits, and so on. As these newcomers submit to God, the Lord exalts them, sending them out to use and exercise all that has been implanted within to take on part of the Son’s mission for the Father. Ways and Means of Prophetic Preparation God has different ways of readying a soul for His call and service. There are at least seven of them, and the combination of several or all of them may be used during the course of a person’s life. The mix used depends on the years God allows the messenger to pursue his own course before pulling him out of mainstream life and setting him on the course of his duty to the Creator and Savior. All ministers are ordained by God for His service before the foundation of the world. Jeremiah 1:1–10 frankly states this, as do Galatians 1:15 and Isaiah 49:1– 5. These and many other Scriptures emphatically show God’s ordinations are from before the womb to let us know the womb is the crafting place of a person’s equipment for God’s ministries. To bring us into His service requires several stages of life: