Welcome to The Journey List!

The Journey List is the prophetic writings of Pam Clark and was birthed in the summer of 2005 out of the Trumpet Wind Ministries Prophetic Email List newsletter. That began in 1997 and was birthed out of The Prophet's Pen newsletter which began in 1984 in Houston.

Many of those articles are chronicled on the Trumpet Wind Ministries website at www.prophetic.net.

On the Trumpet Wind List we posted many articles by many different ministers. But as we saw things get more impersonal in the name of personal and saw "information" exalted over people, we changed the format from the more commonly available prophetic words to a personal journey list. In doing so, we scaled down things considerably but it was felt that was the leading of the Lord.

Things are really taught and life is learned through experience. It is why Jesus spoke in parables and made examples of His life and that of other prophets and characters.

You may not like everything you get here! And that is okay. We offer no free rides on the prophetic ministry. This is just one journey and one testimony shared in the very big picture of many in the Kingdom of God. We pray it blesses you. We hope it does. But He is your Father.

Some personal history...

They say every journey begins with a single step. Well, I guess I've been stepping a while, since I was born in 1951.

My Spiritual journey came as a child when unexpected visitations from God would come. God has a way of just opening your soul and making His Presence known! I didn't really understand it or why He would even talk to me. When I shared with others, they did not seem to really understand. It's not that they didn't believe in God, He just was not arresting their souls like He was mine!

Since I was just a kid, I just enjoyed Him and talked to Him. I didn't really even have praying relatives that I knew anything about, not of the Pentecostal type for sure, but obviously somewhere someone was praying. I have heard of intercessors for people like that and they meet them years later.

Later I would have dreams. Then in my youth and early 20's, as I would see needs, including my own, I would be burdened for the times. I knew things could be better for people and I knew they needed help. All this made me very hungry to understand but there would still be years before I did.

All I knew was that He was developing the relationship at different times and making me aware of things. I would feel very bold with my views. I didn't realize what the demands were, so I just went on living my life because that was all I knew. When totally broken after a divorce in 1974, He began His supernatural ministry to me from outside the walls of my kind, but not demanding, Methodist Church.

Supernaturally He gave me the message of the baby eagles learning how to fly. It was a terrifying time but somehow I knew it was the only way and that He was in it and that He was speaking to me of having faith for impossible things. I felt I had totally failed at life and He was saying it was only just beginning.

MUCH has happened since that day. I have to say that I did get a good foundation there in the Methodist Church in many things and much of the things I learned are still key and solid issues today about the Love of God. What was missing in the messages I heard was that God was really holding us accountable for certain things in lifestyles. That was a new concept. I had been taught freedom but not structure as much as I needed it.

I always knew we had choices, but I thought they were all mine. Some of the serious problems I had were because I didn't know any better. We just did the best we could. Both my parents worked and so a lot of their efforts went more into their jobs.

I know that in some churches the burden of missing it is so strong that people are heavily laden with guilt and are overwhelmed with fear. I didn't have that! And I am glad. I am not legalistic. But I did feel that there were many things that I had to learn the hard way and the consequences were hard.

But yet, I knew there was a God who had an interest in human hearts and events and even me. In my early days, because of all that, I had a prophetic voice but didn't have a clue that is what it was. I just knew I was inspired and had the ability to speak for Him at times because He was speaking to me. And others just thought I was strange but friendly. (It's still like that somewhat! Smile...)

But I knew that things were not all right in the world but that God wanted them better and He wanted other people to know. When other ministries began speaking into my life, my whole outlook changed. I praise God for Christian television.

Suddenly I realized there was such a thing as a ministry that I could do and I was beginning to understand that I was called to it. But I didn't have a clue how to go about it. Of course I went through all the "Who me? Why me?" conversations, but my hunger led me to seek Him more.

Finally through a college group Christian gathering called "The Open Door" in Huntsville, Texas, that was so sweet and had the most incredible worship, I received the baptism in the Holy Spirit in 1976. It changed my whole life. Shortly after that I had a Visitation from the Voice of the Lord that was my calling. He spoke to me audibly, "I have called you to be a prophet from the west to the east. You will go to many nations and do all I command you to do. You will speak what I tell you to speak and you do what I will tell you to do. I have hidden you in the hollow of My Hand," and He gave me the verses of Jeremiah 1:9-10 and Isaiah 51:16.

I was clueless. I didn't know what a prophet really was. I just knew they spoke and got killed for it. It scared me. I tried to beg off and He said with a frightening power, "You will serve Me or you won't!" I said, "Lord, you will have to confirm this to me." (I had heard about the men in white coats who will come and take you away. Some days I still wonder how far away the are, ha ha! Claiming to be a prophet was not cool in those days, not in my circles!)

I knew enough (which had to be inspiration from God) to get into the Bible and read everything there was about prophets. It was invaluable teaching because later ministers would tell me how prophets were and it did not always line up with Scriptures! I also said to Him that I wanted at least two witnesses that this was Him. (In those days I did not even know that Scripture.)

After several years of devoted living, the witnesses came through a dream someone had and the other was words of prophecy. But in the meantime I had prepared myself through study and prayer. You just can't have a worthy gift without the preparation. Some of my start was rocky, but more and more things came together. Half of my battle was believing it, the other half was learning what and how to do it. A ministry is about helping others, not making a name for yourself. God had put His fear in me. And thankfully, there were a few others saw a gift that even I didn't and they encouraged and supported me. And today this ministry has gone to many nations.

Moving into the Ministry...

But still I have to say that a true prophetic calling is often a lonely calling. God has to so convince you it is Him and that there are no votes, and then you have to best learn how to implement it and help others. This is where so many miss it, especially in their early days. They know God has spoken and revealed things, but they have a prideful type spirit about it. Knowledge puffs up, so even when God has shared something, if it is delivered with a superior arrogance, the ministry is not really there because God is not getting the glory for it.

Prophets have to discern flesh from Spirit and spirit from Spirit. Then they have to hold their own in the right spirit and that is the intercessory burden and battle of the prophet. Prophets are intercessors for God and man. Not just for other people, but between people and God, and God and people. And then God does what He chooses. But you still can make a difference.

From there God releases the gifting of the different types of prophets. Some are "seer prophets" and some are "insight" prophets. Some have varying gifts of healing and words of knowledge and some just know what is going to happen. Some know what will happen if something does or does not happen. Some understand timing. Some understand people and events and their significance in the prophetic outlook of Scriptures.

They dream and will have visions, but their dreams and their visions help others, they are not just for themselves. God meant for dreams and visions to help and bless all of us and for all of us to have encouraging words, and even words of knowledge, but ministry is for others, not just for ourselves. Many have gifts that go through the world's filter and so they don't understand how God really wants to use them. We have to learn to be effective and fulfilled.

There is a Kingdom work going on. We are not building our own kingdoms. We have been enscripted by a Master Builder and Craftsman. He tells us how He wants it built. Our personalities are not the focal point. He builds with kindness and with fairness and with rewards, and we get the benefits of His labor. He is pleased when we build the whole work, not just our own little parts.

Some of the work is pioneer work. Some of it is prophetic scouting and redeeming what was lost from the world system. It belonged to God in the first place and He gave it to us. We lost it at the Fall and now we have to get it back again. We are restoring the world and lost mankind. It's a big effort but His remnant will be His Display.

There is a connection between believers and the land. You can read about it in Hosea. When the order is there, the earth responds. It's the foundation - the apostles and the prophets with Jesus as the Capstone or Cornerstone or The Head.

We can be so earthly minded that we are no Heavenly good, and we can be so heavenly minded that we miss our connection with earth. We are made of dust. We are part of the system. It is subject to fail in the fallen world, but it is subject to Life in the redeemed one. There is a Plan going on!!! When we realize that Plan and find our place, we find our fulfillment. We may have temporary setbacks but they are the growing pains of a great and glorious future work that is unfolding even now and that we are honored to be a part of.

The prophetic ministry has its place. The prophets fit into the order of things, not as exalted, but in their place, as others, in service ministry. They are people who are also being built. Our glory is temporary and it fades because it is not ours. We are just the vessels used.

This little List here is just part of my journey shared. You are welcome to be a part. There are the ups and downs, there are victories and revelations, there are the friends and the workers, and the cares and the concerns of like minded people who live for His Glory.

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