Author: Theresa Harvard Johnson

Copyright 2012 Theresa Harvard Johnson

Back in 2005 when I finishing my first instruction manual, The Scribal Anointing: Scribes Instructed in the Kingdom of Heaven, I had a powerful visitation from the Lord. I was on the brink of planning a county-wide poetry slam when Father woke me up in the middle of the night and said plainly, “Beloved, I have not called you to do this. Shut it down.”

I had volunteer teams set up; a city permit approved; flyers going out; vendors in place; Christian writers group in the area on board; local news media coverage organized; and a list of poets ready and waiting. I had even invited a famous Georgia writer to join us and perform through storytelling for the children and youth. It was on, until Father turned it off.

I was four weeks from the event, and terrified of the fallout. In counsel with my pastor at the time, he said to me: “Always remember, it’s better to follow God than yourself. Only he knows your destiny Theresa and plan he has for you. Either way, I will support your decision.”

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An apostle I highly respect and have looked to for insight, Apostle Joseph Prude, wrote a book a while back on apostolic metrons. Because I’ve studied so much of Apostle Prude’s material, I must acknowledge him in any advanced discussion I write about this topic. I was given the honor of writing the foreword for this book because of the “apostolic metron” released to me by the Lord.

In the book, however, he explains that a metron refers to one’s measured part, portion or measure of rule (Prude, 2015, p. 1). One extremely simple example is this: When a person is employed by a company, they only have authority or a measure of rule to do what has been assigned to them. A fry cook, for example, is in charge of the fries not the managing of the restaurant.

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Some “prophetic” books and scribal projects have shelf lives or expiration dates just like the milk and cheese in our refrigerators. For many prophetic scribes and writers, this is a hard truth to accept. After all, we would like to believe our messages are as eternal and useful as God’s word.

The truth is, some books are for a specific time and that is it.

Back in the day, I had manuals that came with CDs inside and instructions for installing MS Word on my computer. Then, there came a day when those were obsolete and I had new choices – download from the web or use MS Word in a cloud.

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