Who is your favorite prophet in the Bible. That question is easy for me, I always say I am the daughter of the Prophet Habbakuh! I want to climb and climb to get close to God, so he will hear me asking him questions about how he is going to handle things down hear on earth. And like Habbakuh I expect an answer. God did answer Habbakuh and he answers me! So who is your favorite prophet? Do you find yourself emulating him in your ministry or daily life?

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2000

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This is my kind of question!! The answer is a no-brainer for this respondent. Not only is Elijah my favorite prophet but I'll show some chutzpah and proclaim him as the Greatest Prophet in the Bible, bar none!! Elijah spoke with such authority that miracles accompanied him everywhere he ventured. At the word of Elijah rain was withheld for three years, the Shummanite's widow son was raised from the dead, the Syrian soldier Namaan was healed of leprosy and an abrupt end of Ahab & Jezebel's evil empire. The epic Battle on Mt. Carmel not only demonstrates that one faithful warrior with God is tantamount to victory over evil but the most basic question throughout Scripture is posed by Elijah. "Choose ye this day whom you will serve, if Baal follow him but if the Lord follow Him" I Kings 18:21 happens to be my favorite passage of Scripture because it compels us to be decisive in our decision making activities. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is displeased with the vacillating tendiencies by those who are captives of temporal pleasures or worldly standards. Elijah was the first to put in place a plan of prophetic succession thru his protege' Elisha. And of course the culminating act which sealed his prophetic greatestness was God issuing a waiver for physical death and swept Elijah up in the heavens by the chariots. Yes, just thinking about Elijah's work makes me want to sing a la Paul Robeson the classic Negroe [please no politically correct change in ethnicity] spiritual, "Swing low sweet chariot comin forth to carry me home" In my zealous response I think I overlooked the second part to the question :-) :-)

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2000

What a wonderful question! I am still as a babe in my spiritual growth, through belligerent ignorance on my part. This question compels me to find out just who my favorite prophet might be. I'll get back to you! :-)

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2000

Tough question. Bill, you had me almost persuaded about Elijah and Rev. Rogers I'm encourage to read more about Habbukuh. After wresling with this a little, the one that has touched me the most is Isaiah (and yes for you scholars out there who are saying but there are at least 2 maybe 3 distinct literary strains in the book of Isaiah, my answer is still all of Isaiah, but I digress!) I love Isaiah for many reasons, but to keep this concise, the main reason is it is in Isaiah that I find stregnth for when I feel inadequate as a Pastor, when I am frustrated because the needs are so great and my skills and resources are puny in comparison. These words are for me a letter of reference:

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2000

Tough question. Bill, you had me almost persuaded about Elijah and Rev. Rogers I'm encourage to read more about Habbukuh. After wresling with this a little, the one that has touched me the most is Isaiah (and yes for you scholars out there who are saying but there are at least 2 maybe 3 distinct literary strains in the book of Isaiah, my answer is still all of Isaiah, but I digress!) I love Isaiah for many reasons, but to keep this concise, the main reason is it is in Isaiah that I find stregnth for when I feel inadequate as a Pastor, when I am frustrated because the needs are so great and my skills and resources are puny in comparison. These words are for me a letter of reference: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me for he has annointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prisons to those who are bound, To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, And the day of vengence of our God; To comfort all who mourn in Zion, To give beuty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the Lord that he may be glorified. Isaiah 61:1-3

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2000