The Prophetic

Intimacy with God, it appears to me, is the true source of foreknowledge. The prophetic gifting in the life of those we have been looking at recently here appears not to have been something sought in and of itself – but has come about as a result intimacy with God. That is not to take away from the injunction of St. Paul – ‘Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.’ – but the pursuit of love (intimacy) remains paramount. Some in our own day who desire the prophetic gift appear to forget this. Continue Reading

In the early hours of this morning (as I write) I had a dream. In it I was to meet an unknown relative from another country at the grave of a lady I knew in childhood as Aunt Marjory, in order to pay our respects. However, to my surprise, as I approached the location I saw that a good number of my relatives, who knew Marjory much better than I, had arrived before me to do likewise and honour this quiet humble lady who died in 1965. In the light of my current train of thinking on this Blog, when waking from the dream, I remembered that this lady too had been one who was known in older Highland Presbyterian circles as having access to the ‘Secret of the Lord’. Continue Reading