His Voice Makes Perfect Sense?
Years ago, my husband had received an unusual email from a man in our city that we hardly knew. The man wrote to explain that he was having visions of horses and must speak to my husband right away. He further explained that the visions were true because God had confirmed the vision of the horse… drum roll please… by a stork. What? A stork? That doesn’t make sense!
You can understand why we would have a good laugh at that and completely ignore the man’s prophetic vision. First of all, we hardly knew him and his checkered background didn’t help his credibility. Secondly, his explanation didn’t make sense to my husband’s logical mind. Although we didn’t follow up with it, the man’s saving grace was that I too had been having visions of horses. I just didn’t know why.
As the story unfolded, another prophetic word came to my email box from a well-known prophet. This prophet was also having visions of horses, had much more credibility, and he could give a reasonable interpretation. The short story is that it was about a specific nation that I had been dreaming about bringing the Gospel to. I was elated to receive this prophetic vision because that nation’s government had closed it down to Christianity.
We finally solved the riddle of the horses, but why the stork? It might have been a symbol for new birth, but there is a growing company of prophetic people who hear and see the voice of God in things that ordinary people can’t or won’t connect to. They will see or hear the voice of God in the cloud formations, in the way the wind is blowing, in the Major League baseball scores, or in the sounds of the cars honking on the road. It’s not something they make up. It’s really the voice of God speaking to them and in their world it makes perfect sense.
We see stories like this all throughout the Bible and it leaves most of us in holy awe and wonder. Consider the time when Elijah kept sending his servant to look at the sky as he prayed for a cloud to appear “the size of a man’s hand” (1 Kings 18:44). Then there was the time when the wise men journeyed to find the baby Jesus to worship Him (Matthew 2). Why did they do this? They claimed they saw His star appear in the sky. This is not something outside of our paradigm, but it is something outside of our logic. This type of phenomenon is often dismissed in the here and now because we don’t know how to work it through...
