God's X-factor is Manifest Through Prophetic People

It’s no secret to most of us that the family structure in America, as well as abroad, is eroding. The sheer volume of children being born out of wedlock is staggering. Beyond that, the effects of absent fathers on a larger scale tower over today’s society, casting shadows into morality that, if not stopped, will stretch until darkness covers culture and right and wrong become completely subjective and left to the whims of each individual!

Yet in the midst of all of this craziness, there is a promise, a powerful declaration of hope emerging from the backdrop of deep darkness: Elijah is coming! Elijah is coming and He will restore hearts and reconcile families! Shout it from the rooftops! Sing it from the highest mountains! Write it over the doorposts of your house! Elijah is coming to restore hearts, to heal families, to love the hell out of the world!

Could it be that just like Elijah was the prophetic answer to his culture’s decay, you and I can also be the prophetic answer to the challenges our world, families, and communities face today? I’m saying is it possible that God’s X-factor is once again His prophetic people? Could they be the catalytic tipping point of our time, the missing link to the master plan, and God’s divine answer to man’s deviant destruction?

I can hear the objections now: “Kris, you have fallen off the sanity truck! You have lost touch with reality! You are pulling your religious wacko, Jedi mind trick, stuff on us!” I know, I know, but hear me out for a minute. Didn’t God often use the prophets to alter the perverted course of society throughout history? Remember Moses the prophet, and Miriam the prophetess? They led the children of Israel out of slavery. They were the Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. of their day.

How about the prophet Daniel, who spoke into the lives of kings of Babylon and the dictators of Persia, and consequently altered the destiny of two world powers? You know the drill, the list goes on and on. Elijah, Elisha, Deborah, Isaiah, Hosea, and even the reluctant prophet, Jonah — they all had one thing in common. They ALL emerged in the darkest seasons of moral decay, and every one of them became a catalyst to the reformation of society.  

  The power of this last day Elijah Company of prophets is no longer in their ability to call down fire, as Elijah did under the Old Covenant, but now the full force of this mantle is to be laser-focused and divinely directed towards hearts. The message is clear; FATHERS COME HOME TO YOUR FAMILIES, AND CHILDREN BE RECONCILED TO YOUR FATHERS!

If this is true – if the prophets are God’s X-factor, His divine, “Amen” to the world’s outcry, then two things have to happen: first, prophetic people have to stop playing the “elder brother of the prodigal son role” and start behaving like fathers and mothers. Let me explain: like the prophets of old, prophetic people are one of God’s most powerful agents of social justice. But UNLIKE the prophets of old who often shifted cultures through the fear of punishment, New Testament prophetic people are called to transform culture from the inside out, turning the HEARTS of the fathers to sons, etc.

The truth is that you might be able to punish people into morality (depending on what definition you use for the word morality), but you can’t punish people into purity. Purity ALWAYS begins with a pure heart.

If ever a people need reconciliation, it’s now! Countries spend billions of dollars tryingto solve the plight of the powerless, the perversion of the virtueless, and the oppression of the vicious. At home, our prisons are packed to capacity, our schools have become war zones, and our theaters and malls are shooting galleries. When does the madness stop?

Many of us are hoping a new president or global leader will rescue us, or a shift in political power will save us. But what if God’s answer is a prophetic movement — God’s spirit, solutions, revelation, and clarity poured out on and through ALL of His children? 

I’d like to propose that you have a distinct and purposeful role in this movement. Anyone who is saved and receives the baptism of the Holy Spirit can minister in the gifts of the Spirit.



Paul wrote, “For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be exhorted,” (1 Corinthians 14:31).

Luke echoed Paul’s exhortation with his account of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the First Century Church. Here is Luke’s record of Peter’s first message,

“It shall be in the last days,” God says, “That I will pour forth of My Spirit on all mankind; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; even on My bondslaves, both men and women, I will in those days pour forth of My Spirit and they shall prophesy” (Acts 2:17-18).

It is clear from these verses that the gift of prophecy is available to EVERYONE! I am just saying... what if, in the midst of this moral decay and social darkness, God is calling for His prophetic people, including you, to emerge from obscurity and be His divine X-factor? It’s happened before, so why not here, and why not now? 

If you’re hungry to accelerate your prophetic calling, I want to invite you to join me at the School of the Prophets this August 8-12, 2022 both in Redding, California and online. Gather with other prophets and highly prophetic people from all around the world as we pursue the voice of God to understand the current season of reformation so that we can influence the course of history. You can register here.  

What do you feel God is speaking in this unique moment? How have you seen the prophetic bring cultural reformation or personal transformation in your own life? I’d love to hear what you think in the comments below!

*This blog was originally posted on January, 10 2020.