This word is submitted by Doug Mead (meaddr@netzero.net)

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Teach My Sheep to Hear

Oh, My prophets, My prophets,

I have set you apart unto My service. I have told you secrets that I have not shared with everyone. I have given you a spirit of revelation in the knowledge of Jesus, My Son. I stand with you in the days of your trials and use those very same times to pave a road for My church to walk upon. I can depend on your removing the stones for My people even at your own personal expense. By My grace you speak things into existence that do not already exist. You have performed for Me. My Spirit labors with you in this work.

I have called you to equip the saints for the work of service. You have raised up many in the likeness of My heart. You have caused others to share My burdens, to take up My yoke of service. Part of Me and part of you have been given and shared. You have imparted Me to them. You have trained the 'sons of the prophets' and many have been chosen from their number.

Now I call you to one further task that shall open the floodgates of My Spirit wide. For it is a nation, a people that hear My voice and are directed by My whisper that shall express My heart. Anyone can learn to speak, but who can learn to tame the tongue? Who among you have chosen to speak only My words? It is out of the abundance of your hearts that you speak. And so it is for My church, if she cannot hear, how can she speak?

The gift that I have given to you is that you hear and see. That sets you apart as prophets. It is that treasure in your earthen vessels that you must not bury. Speak My words, train the 'sons of the prophets', but don't fail Me at this point. I have called you to teach My people to know My voice. I have called you to teach My sheep to both see and hear. These abilities will make a strong army of your fellow saints.

You can bury the talent which I have given to you in the soil of your own ministry so that you will not lose My investment. You can produce two fold by imparting your vision to others. Or you can experience 10 fold increase by teaching My sheep to see and to hear. Don't hide the talents that I have given but let them be multiplied into My church. Here is the measure of a 'man of God' that what I give, he freely gives. The profit is not yours, but Mine. In My order, you are fathers given to mentoring. Don't you see that My heart focus starts at mentoring and ends in performing? Where is your heart? Do you start with performing and end with mentoring?