The desert experience, or wilderness, is God's mandatory prerequisite to the prophetic calling. A prophetic person never looks worse than while he/she is in-desert; and, he never looks better than when he emerges as gold, mature in character and ace in prophesying. Even though all Christians experience certain desert seasons, the prophet's wilderness is unique in that it is typically longer in duration and broader in revelatory production.Biblically, the desert is constitutional to prophetic identity. Moses stumbled upon the burning bush and his prophetic calling in the desert (Ex 3:1-10). David blossomed in his desert strongholds, writing many of his psalmic prophecies while there (1Sam 23:14). Elijah, when overcome with despair, ran to a prophetic fetal position--the desert (1Ki 19:3,4). John the Baptist championed the prophet's wilderness, living there in seclusion for extended seasons and even years (Lk 1:80, 3:2). Jesus, the promised Messiah-Prophet, willingly resorted to desert places (NKJV Mk 1:45, Lk 5:16). Though desert places can be dry and wanting, maturing prophets come to find a safety there, a place where their intense and introspective disposition can find relief and equilibrium in God (Ps 55:6-8).
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