This is so backwards. We are not called to be great but to be humble. We are not called to live our purpose but His. What is inside of us is filth and sin not riches and treasures. When the disciples argued over who would be greatest did Jesus warn them to not leave their greatness in the graveyard? No. Jesus said he who is the least is the greatest. This is simply carnal, worldly thinking couched in Christianese. McClain unfortunately continues:
Life before Christ can be so devastating
and confusing. It's like having the wind knocked out of you. The prophetic
word provides spiritual oxygen for life and destiny. Prophecy is the
breath of life being released back into you. When God breathed into Adam,
He released life and prophetic purpose into him. We must understand
that God will always give us pictures, maps and directions to show us how we
should be living our lives. His will for our lives is knowable. This is
revealed by prophecy. Everything in the earth is trying to take us away from
the original purposes of God for our lives. It dangles every kind of
glitter in front of us. Its ultimate goal is to lead us down paths of
destruction.
Wow. The spiritual and biblical ignorance is staggering here. So life before Christ is like having the wind knocked out of you? Really? When we were dead in our trespasses, under the yoke of bondage to slavery and destined for hell, that is just like when someone punches us in the stomach and we can't catch our breath? When your foundation for our sinful state is this trivialized, it is no wonder that everything that comes out of your mouth is so heretical. Prophecy is not the breath of life being released back into you. Go back and read the creation account. There is zero indication that God breathed prophetic purpose into Adam. That is simply being added to the text here. God does not give us maps and pictures to show us how to live our lives. He gave us the Bible. His Word. We do not need your word on top of it like God forgot something. His revealed will for our life is very knowable because it is written down in the Bible. His decretive will however is not known and He has no intention of revealing it to us, let alone to you, to tell us.
Do
you notice the self indulgent set up here though? Michelle McClain fancies
herself a prophetess. She has carved out this niche for herself in life,
business and church. So in her explanations, she has to pretend the Bible
supports the lie she lives. She actually claims here that the unknown will of
God for our lives is revealed by prophecy. That is nonsense with a capital N. She
is right that the devil and the world dangles all sorts of glitter in front of
us to distract us and lead us down paths of destruction. She just is so blinded
by her own carnality she cannot see how she is one of those paths. What she
teaches is unbiblical and fanciful. It distracts people from Jesus and puts
their eyes on her instead. Thankfully she is wrapping up:
God, in His love and mercy, sends
prophets and prophetic people with insight and direction. We must then
make a decision to follow and align our lives with the revealed prophetic
word. We must go to the cross. I am not talking about suffering, but
rather where your desires are in conflict with God's desires--you must be
willing to put those desires to death on the cross.
Beloved, God in His love and mercy sent His only Son to die for our sins. Not
prophetic people with insight and direction. It is true He sent them in the Old
Testament because there was no widespread Word of God. Christ came to fulfill
all of that though. Now we have the full revealed will of God. Everything He
intended to reveal to us He has. False prophets, which Jesus warned us about,
will always draw our attention to themselves. A true prophet or someone
exhibiting the gift of prophecy will always guide us back to Scripture because
that is what sayeth the Lord. God did not forget anything. It is not like over
2000 years after the Gospels God suddenly remembered that He wanted to tell you
to open up a business so He is telling Michelle McClain to tell you. Sorry Michelle,
it just does not work that way. She concludes:
The moment you choose to align your life with the prophetic purpose of God, the Lord is watching and sends every resource you need to accomplish His prophetic purpose in your life. You're not in this world by chance. Embrace the prophetic anointing that gives you an advantage to live a rich and full life.
Let me ask you something Michelle. Does the underground Christian in China have this advantage you are bragging about? What about the martyred Iraqi Christian? How does this prophetic purpose theology play in third world countries where believers have to pray for clean water? If your teaching cannot transcend our mere geographical borders when the Bible transcends all time and culture, then your teaching is not from God. Period.
Listen, I get it. I understand the desire to know more. To see the future. To be assured everything is going to be OK. I understand the desire to want our life to be this grand play where we are the star. It feeds the flesh. Pride is the greatest of sins. But it is not "prophecy" beloved. Having someone lay their hands on you and sputter sentence fragments and vague predictions over your life is not from God. It is from Satan. It is not prophetic. It is clairvoyance. Let's be real clear here. We do not align ourselves with some made up prophetic purpose. We align ourselves with His Word. It is His revealed will that brings us closer to His decretive will. Don't believe the slick marketing and fancy Christo-speak of people selling prophecy to you. Think about this seriously for a second. Have you ever seen one of these charlatans give a negative prophecy? Have you ever heard them say, "whoa, God is telling me that things are not going well with you. You are not going to be birthing anything. There is no shift in your atmosphere and quite frankly, you need to repent cause your life may be required of you soon." Of course not because that won't sell. It reminds me of one of my favorite prophets who never wrote a book:
And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Inquire first for the word of the Lord."Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?" And they said, "Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king."But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not here another prophet of the Lord of whom we may inquire?" And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil." And Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say so." - 1Kings 22: 5-8 (ESV)
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