Prophetic and sustainable are two words perpetually marketed into  meaninglessness. Someone swoons, “That is so prophetic!” Really!? Please tell me how we’ve ended up entrenched in such ambiguity? And sustainability… for who, in what context, fulfilling which protocols, to what ends? But that’s just it… it’s typically all about “it” and not “who”.

Techniques and efficiencies are typically anti-human. It’s like the term non-profit, which usually comes across more like anti-profit. You can never be quite sure which direction Jezebel will come for your head; the prophet killer. It’s more than word games.

Prophecy is the mysterious and glorious cloud around the timeless, yet embodied, Word of God coming down and out. Sustainability is literally and physically what God does to hold everybody up and together in the meantime!

I spent this past weekend in Manhattan, New York with three great guys with tons of business and international development experience. My trip to New York was graciously funded by friends in Hong Kong.

As soon as I arrived in NY some idiot fraudulently attempted to rack up 10G on my Visa. Embarrassingly, my spending was on lock down for the weekend (not that I have any money to spend anyway, having had no income for 21 months). It’s humbling to have others pay for your meals. It’s humbling to sleep on the hotel room floor. It’s humbling to not be in charge of the situation. It’s humbling to sow the seeds of a global vision without “having” anything of substance to prove it… Is it prophetic? Is it sustainable? Not the right questions… If it is of God, it will supernova with or without words and/or pennies.

I just spent time in NY with guys who’ve at one time or another owned the most expensive cars, lived in luxuries, consulted with global leaders, and brokered the biggest numbers. Imagine a Wall St. super elite responsible for investments into whole continents, who personally rejects all status and privilege, sows the 90, lives off the 10 (in Harlem), while personally caring for hundreds of children (in Africa)!

Sustained by His powerful Word…