“He who rebukes a man will in the end gain more favor than he who has a flattering tongue.” Proverbs 28:23 was spoken over me one day by one of my teammates when we were doing listening prayer for each other, and to be honest it fit with exactly what the Lord has been teaching me the past two weeks. Lately, I’ve been finding myself speaking the hard truths that the people around have been needing to hear, and apparently I’m doing what the Lord has called me to do since I keep receiving encouragement about speaking truth. Truth has been something that my life has needed the past week, and the fact that the Lord is using me to speak that out is blowing my mind. We are called to elevate our brothers and sisters in Christ, and the Lord has chosen the means of hard truth as my way of doing it. It has been a gift that has been really liberating to me, primarily because I am finally seeing what the Lord has for me. It feels so fantastic to finally walk in what the Lord has called me to be, and I wouldn’t give it up for the world.
But to be honest, a lot of the times that I speak these truths into other’s lives I am absolutely terrified. On the same day that I heard Proverbs 28, I was also told, “Tucker, your words have the capability to cast vision into our lives, and that is absolutely amazing. The thing you have to keep in mind is, that your truths also have the capability to shatter people.” That is not something that most people would enjoy hearing, just the causal, “Oh by the way, you could utterly destroy a person with this gift.” The thing is that I needed to hear that; because if you didn’t know me, I’m the person that says the immediate thought that comes to mind. While that may be fantastic at times, people aren’t always in the position to hear the hard things, which I may or may not forget at times. The truth is that I have seen my words really hurt a person in the past. Not because I meant to, but because the time that I delivered it was off. Learning to process and think about my words has been a battle for me, because the thing is that if you dwell on these things to long they lose their meanings and vision. But on the other hand, if you speak it to soon, it will not be received in love. At this point, I’m just primarily relying on the Lord to tell me when to go, which is probably what I should have already been doing in the first place.
On another note of relying on the Lord, I have really stepped into allowing the Lord to speak through me. In the past two weeks alone, I’ve helped liberate and empower a teammate, as well as essentially having a vision about a squadmates entire future and where they are called to ministry. Letting the Lord use me in this way has been something else, and I’m beginning to see some fantastic things done through me. In my mind, I am really starting to embody Jeremiah 5:14, which I talked about in my last blog. Having the Lord reveal to me who I am meant to be has been such an experience, and I know that I haven’t even scratched the surface of who I am made to be.
On a more announcement note, I just want to apologize for the lack of blogs lately. I haven’t really felt called to write anything, and I’m also trying to find a style that fits me better than the whole this is what happened this week. I am also still trying to work to becoming fully funded, so please consider donating is the Lord places that on your heart! I’ll try my best to write a blog this week, but it may not happen since I am moving to my new ministry site. I don’t know the whole setup yet, but I will keep you all informed once I do!
Love and blessings,
Tucker Stevens
