In the Cool of the Garden: Hearing God's Voice in All of Life // Pt. 2 // 1 Corinthians 12-14 // Jeshua Glanzmann

This week, Jeshua Glanzmann shares a message from 1 Corinthians 13–14 titled "With and For One Another." Part of the series In the Cool of the Garden: Hearing God's Voice in All of Life, this message zooms in on what it means to hear God not just privately, but together — through the gift of prophecy functioning in the context of loving community.

Jeshua opens by demystifying the prophetic, acknowledging it can feel strange or loaded, and anchoring the conversation firmly in Scripture. Drawing from Paul's corrective word to the Corinthians, he lays out three reasons the church pursues prophecy in community: to encourage and build one another up, to serve as a witness to believers and unbelievers alike that God truly sees them, and to cut through the blind spots in how we see ourselves. He moves through each reason with personal stories — from a first prophetic encounter that left him skeptical, to a Jonah-like word that broke open years of fear, to a summer of quietly speaking God's heart over a self-described Satanist coworker. He then gets practical, walking through four postures for healthy prophetic community: humility, right process, wise presentation, and ongoing pursuit — all tethered to love as the non-negotiable foundation.

The theological center of this message is Paul's claim that prophecy exists for upbuilding, encouragement, and consolation — and that this work is, by design, communal. Jeshua makes clear that no one hears God perfectly or completely, and that is not a flaw in the system — it is the whole point. God built the church because he knew we would need each other to see what we cannot see alone. The prophetic, rightly ordered in love and humility, is one of the primary ways he speaks his heart into our blind spots and our fears.

Jeshua closes with a pastoral invitation to anyone who has been walking their faith in isolation — trusting only their own read of God's voice, or avoiding community out of self-sufficiency or fear. God is not asking us to do anything we can do on our own. He is calling us to lean in, to ask for prayer, to receive a word, and to step toward the people around us — because his chosen way of bringing the kingdom here on earth is through his body, together.