Hello, and thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of our post today is, What is a Prophetic Act?

Every societal group develops its own culture and creates language associated with it, including denominations and spiritual movements.

As examples, the charismatic movement often used the phrase slain in the spirit, referring to a

person who fell down while being prayed for.

Pentecostals and charismatic sometimes speak of God moving in our midst.

Ever wonder what someone who has zero understanding of God envisions when hearing this? They probably wonder what type of

moves was he making or perhaps where did he go? The stream of Christianity I was raised

in spoke of death as crossing Jordan's chilly tide.

I'm sure the average unchurched individual understood that.

They probably thought someone I just returned from the Holy Land.

Most of our religious idiomatic phrases grow from beliefs, teachings emphasized in our

denomination or movement. As I said, all groups do it, not just us religious folk. I recall hearing for the first time that someone was

really cool, which of course had nothing to do with their body temperature, or that a bad person

was actually good, outstanding, or first rate, as in a really bad drummer.

What we often fail to consider is that those not part of our movement don't always understand our lingo.

Those of us in my stream, there's another one. Speak of prophetic acts.

The planting of the 300 arrowheads fits into this category.

Today I want to explain what we mean by a prophetic act and why we use the phrase.

First, let's look at the meaning of prophecy or the prophetic in a general sense.

In our culture today, most people think of prophecy only in the context of predicting the future,

but this is not the complete biblical meaning. The Hebrew word for prophecy is nava,

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