Graham Jones Blog

What do you do when you have a word from God — or think you have one? Hearing is one matter. Processing the prophetic is another: judging the word, returning to God for interpretation, knowing when others should speak into it, understanding delay, and knowing how to...

One thing is to get a word from God. Another is to understand that word correctly. The third step is turning it into action. When we act upon the word of God, we activate the word of God. Getting a word is not enough. You need to do something with it — and sometimes...

You have heard from God — cool. What do you do with it now? How do we actually turn that into a changed and transformed life? How do you take a word off your fridge door and see it come to pass in your life? I call this prophetic processing: processing for the Brits,...

Hearing from God should never be a peripheral or throwaway subject in the life of a Christian. By and large, the traditional evangelical church in America and Europe has shied away from this subject — and I understand why. Sometimes the only examples we have seen of...

God has never been surprised by anything. There is not one scheme of the enemy that caught Him off guard, not one tragedy that arrived as news. We live locked in time and space, and we get surprised. He sees everything — and He is not merely watching. He has a plan...

*Prophecy belongs in family, not in the dark and not on demand.* The New Testament knows almost nothing of hearing from God through strangers outside the life of a local church. The church is imperfect. It still keeps people safe most of the time. We are living in a...

*The depth of sonship is the depth of hearing.* Hearing from God has to move along a line. At one end it is subjective. God could be speaking. We think it is God. We cannot quite prove it. We get blown around. That is not a huge problem if you stay in the shallow end...

*Clarity in hearing is not a technique. It is time before His face.* We know in part. We prophesy in part. That is not an insult. That is Paul telling the truth about how hearing works this side of glory. The question is not whether we start incomplete. The question...