The Day of New Beginnings

A New Level of Utterance

 

Jeremiah 33 is a prophetic chapter that speaks of the coming Kingdom and Christ’s reign over it. It speaks of a day of restoration and of God fulfilling all His promises. What’s really interesting is verse one:
 
1 ¶ Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still confined in the court of the guard, saying…
 
Jeremiah spoke some of the greatest Words of liberation and freedom for the Kingdom of God to be found in the Scriptures. Yet they were spoken while he himself was still confined. We have a similar example with Paul in 2nd Tim. 2:9: “…for which I suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal; but the word of God is not imprisoned.”
 
These passages are prophetic of a new realm. Prophecy in this hour is not so much what we necessarily speak with our mouths, but what our very lives become as an “utterance” of God. Hebrews 11:4 says, “By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.” It says Abel obtained a testimony. Rev. 19:10 says that the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Thus, we enter a realm in which the expression of God through us is in itself a prophetic voice going out into the earth. 
 
This expression of God through us is not so much our deliberate speaking or efforts at ministry; it’s what we are in Him. Our “speaking” is to be an emanation of Christ’s life out of us into the realm of spirit. Without necessarily opening the mouth, the Body of Christ becomes collectively the prophetic Voice of God in the earth.
 
Although both Jeremiah and Paul were literally speaking and prophesying words with their mouths, they are still a type of this new realm. Yes, we also are to literally speak, but more importantly, it’s Christ’s life, His nature formed in us, that is to “speak”. Right now it seems we too are still confined in the court of the guard. We are not yet wholly free of the influence of the flesh nature that wars against us. Nevertheless, in this new realm the Body of Christ is already beginning to speak. As His Lordship is established in our spirits, it opens the door for this new level of utterance.