Where are the Prophets?

    I'm sitting in IAF training and I want to cry. The presenter is making a statements that he knows are exaggerated and somewhat false. He is using qualitative words that don't match the quantity - never, always, etc. The words that I loathe, because they lack accuracy. When I told the presenter that those words make me uncomfortable and he replied that he was agitating me. All that taught me was that agitation is lying in order to get a reaction. 

    My chief thought is that agitation is so far from prophesy. And I would rather be a prophet. In my Shalom application I wrote that I am honest to the point that I scare people. But its honesty. Not agitation. Agitation lacks the love strand that is core to my life and communities of shalom. Prophesy with love involves encouragement and rebuke. That's not here in this definition of agitation. Speak out of love not rile up! Prophets speak in love because they want to bring about the Kingdom of God. 

    Lord, may I be a prophet, not an agitator.