Author: Theresa Harvard Johnson

Theresa Harvard Johnson is the founder of The School of the Scribe and progenitor of The Scribal Anointing® teachings, the 21st-century revelation of the office of the prophetic scribe. She has authored more than 25 books to help prophetic scribes navigate their calling, taught thousands of scribes globally and developed safe spaces online and in person to foster prophetic community. Theresa holds an M. Div. in biblical studies and an M. A. in professional writing. As a scribal historian and mentor to many, she has pioneered exclusively in this area for more than two-decades.

Part I of IV: Defining the Opportunist (2)

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Copyright 2016 Theresa Harvard Johnson

Opportunism is a raging problem impacting the congregation in this hour. While it is a well-known phenomenon – even expected and accepted – in the corporate arena and market place, it often takes individuals and congregations by surprise. The behavior can be so subtle and disarming that it goes unidentified by some believers until long after earned and legitimate opportunities and relationships have been lost.

In using the phrase “earned opportunities,” I am referring to those open doors that a person has legitimately been presented or that they have earned the authority or been given the permission to walk through.

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Article History

Part I of IV: Defining the Opportunist

Posted on by Theresa Harvard Johnson

Copyright 2016 Theresa Harvard Johnson

Opportunism is a raging problem impacting the congregation in this hour. While it is a well-known phenomenon – even expected and accepted – in the corporate arena and market place, it often takes individuals and congregations by surprise. The behavior can be so subtle and disarming that it goes unidentified by some believers until long after earned and legitimate opportunities and relationships have been lost.

In using the phrase “earned opportunities,” I am referring to those open doors that a person has legitimately been presented or that they have earned the authority or been given the permission to walk through.

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Ministry Integrity

Loud Holidays & My Son JJ (2)

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jeriahassupermanfinalCopyright 2014 Theresa Harvard Johnson

While many people are celebrating 4th of July, Labor Day, Memorial Day and New Year’s Eve with fireworks, bazookas, gunshots, laser shows and other stimulating activity, my son JJ is generally up all night vomiting, sweating, shaking in fear and experiencing sheer terror and massive anxiety attacks in the midst of all the stimulation from festivities in our neighborhood.

Up until our family received the diagnosis of autism concerning him, we were oblivious to his condition and responses. I’ve since learned that it is human nature not to concern ourselves with a thing if it doesn’t affect us directly. For most people, children like JJ are not apart of their reality — outside of passing them on the street or interacting in another type of environment.

JJ changed all that for us — opening our eyes to a whole new world. Despite the challenges, it has been a tremendous journey of acceptance and love. We have been changed forever by his wonderful life.

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Article History

Loud Holidays & My Son JJ

Posted on by Theresa Harvard Johnson

jeriahassupermanfinalCopyright 2014 Theresa Harvard Johnson

While many people are celebrating 4th of July, Labor Day, Memorial Day and New Year’s Eve with fireworks, bazookas, gunshots, laser shows and other stimulating activity, my son JJ is generally up all night vomiting, sweating, shaking in fear and experiencing sheer terror and massive anxiety attacks in the midst of all the stimulation from festivities in our neighborhood.

Up until our family received the diagnosis of autism concerning him, we were oblivious to his condition and responses. I’ve since learned that it is human nature not to concern ourselves with a thing if it doesn’t affect us directly. For most people, children like JJ are not apart of their reality — outside of passing them on the street or interacting in another type of environment.

JJ changed all that for us — opening our eyes to a whole new world. Despite the challenges, it has been a tremendous journey of acceptance and love. We have been changed forever by his wonderful life.

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Navigating This Life

Prophecy: Detoxifying the Prophetic

Posted on by Theresa Harvard Johnson

November 12, 2016

Background: The election season has revealed many things to my heart concerning the prayer, the prophetic and clearly understanding what God is saying or doing in a particular group, region or territory. There are two things we can count on: (1) God is not the author of confusion; and (2) God does not have super-star prophets or apostles operating in the Body of Christ. No ONE PROPHET, at least in this dispensation of the Gospel, speaks for ALL PEOPLE or a particular nation or people group. In pondering this over the course of this year, Father begin to share with me how He was using this great season of confusion that we find ourselves in  — here in the United States — to re-teach some of us how to distinguish between His voice and the voice of a stranger. This prophetic word is a portion of what the Lord is sharing with me.

Prophecy: In this moment, I am realigning the prophetic and the prophetic voice in some of my people. I am bringing things you have believed about the prophetic voice into a new, fresh view. I am causing my people to re-evaluate how they hear, and what they allow into their ear-gates and eye gates. I am speaking deeply to you concerning what you eat, how much you eat and what you discern as food. Your spiritual digestion is paramount to me. What you take in as nourishment and eliminate as waste is critical to me.

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Prophecy 2016