by T. Austin-Sparks
Published in January 2025 by Austin-Sparks.net.
As editor of the “A Witness and A Testimony” magazine published in England from 1925 to 1971, T. Austin-Sparks wrote individual articles as well as series of messages later published as books. This book contains a compilation of his articles from the Austin-Sparks.Net website on the topic: the Prophetic.
"The prophetic function is brought into operation at a time when things are not well with the people and work of God, when declension has set in; when things have lost their distinctive Divine character; when there is a falling short or an accretion of features which were never intended by God. The Prophet in principle is one who represents - in himself and his vision - God's reaction to either a dangerous tendency or a positive deviation. He stands on God's full ground and the trend breaks on him. That which constitutes this prophetic function is spiritual perception, discernment, and insight. The Prophet sees, and he sees what others are not seeing. It is vision, and this vision is not just of an enterprise, a "work", a venture; it is a state, a condition. It is not for the work as such that he is concerned, but for the spiritual state that dishonours and grieves the Lord."
