Yauwana Janam

PICTURE OF A PROPHET (BY LEONARD RAVENHILL)

• He has no price tags.
• He is totally "otherworldly."
• He is unquestionably controversial and unpardonably hostile.
• He marches to another drummer!
• He breathes the rarefied air of inspiration.
• He is a "seer" who comes to lead the blind.
• He lives in the heights of God and comes into the valley with a "thus saith the Lord."
• He shares some of the foreknowledge of God and so is aware of impending judgment.
• He lives in "splendid isolation."
• He is forthright and outright, but he claims no birthright.
• His message is "repent, be reconciled to God or else...!"
• His prophecies are parried.
• His truth brings torment, but his voice is never void.
• He is the villain of today and the hero of tomorrow.
• He is excommunicated while alive and exalted when dead!
• He is dishonored with epithets when breathing and honored with epitaphs when dead.
• He is a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, but few "make the grade" in his class.
• He is friendless while living and famous when dead.
• He is against the establishment in ministry; then he is established as a saint by posterity.
• He eats daily the bread of affliction while he ministers, but he feeds the Bread of  Life to those who listen.
• He walks before men for days but has walked before God for years.
• He is a scourge to the nation before he is scourged by the nation.
• He announces, pronounces, and denounces!
• He has a heart like a volcano and his words are as fire.
• He talks to men about God.
• He carries the lamp of truth amongst heretics while he is lampooned by men.
• He faces God before he faces men, but he is self-effacing.
• He hides with God in the secret place, but he has nothing to hide in the marketplace.
• He is naturally sensitive but supernaturally spiritual.
• He has passion, purpose and pugnacity.
• He is ordained of God but disdained by men.