If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.  –1 Corinthians 13:2 (NIV)

If an unbeliever or an inquirer comes in while everyone is prophesying, they are convicted of sin and are brought under judgment by all, as the secrets of their hearts are laid bare. So they will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, “God is really among you!”   –1 Corinthians 14:24-25 (NIV)

Because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. –2 Corinthians 12:7 (NIV)

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?   –Romans 6:1-2 (NIV)

“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.” Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.” Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”   –Isaiah 6:5-8 (NIV)

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[Chorus: P.O.D. & Dirt]
Babylon, breathe Babylon

[Verse 1: Dirt]
I see you people babble on and on and on
Graven images, golden idols, and false icons
I’m seeking wisdom like Solomon
But my antenna keeps on picking up evil transmissions
At headquarters I receive my mission:
Blow up the ruler of the air like nuclear fission
So I analyze my weapons:
Laser guided rifles that shoot spiritual wisdom
I think I see enemy warriors
Fragile heathens that run stuff like mayors
So with brothas that snuff punks
We set up time bombs to destroy the strongholds of Babylon

[Verse 2: P.O.D.]
We be the tribes under grace, a righteous minority
Decadent culture make you forget your spiritual priority
Back down by the movement, soldiers who will serve ya
Open to be used by God, destroy you like Medo-Persia
Jewel of all kingdoms, live evil, purified horror, take you down
And overthrow you like Sodom and Gomorrah
Strong arm of the law, guilty of all crimes
Like the great prophet Isaiah:
Predict your fall all fifty times
Got rhymes you could never use
For the purpose you be using, I’ll dance over your fields
Present day Iraq still lies in ruins
Filled with lies and backstab persuasions
Bumrushed, get crushed by us, this rescue invasion

[Bridge]
Look to the sky, heed the warning
The shadow is coming, the shadow is coming
The plagues are coming, the plagues are coming
I feel the breath of the death beast

[Verse 3: P.O.D. & Dirt]
Misled bureaucracy, full of hypocrisy
I gotta steel pulse, lookin’ for true democracy
Destruction, now your walls have fallen
Just sittin’ here waiting for the train to Zion
Sit down in the dust, Babylon, without a throne to call your own, its 47:1
The city has fallen, she has fallen, golden images of her gods
Lie shattered on the ground

–P.O.D., “Breathe Babylon”–

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Ira Milligan, Understanding the Dreams You Dream: Biblical Keys for Hearing God’s Voice in the Night (Treasure House, 1997).

St. Peter of Alcantara, Treatise on Prayer and Meditation (TAN Books, 2010).

Thomas Dubay, Fire Within: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel on Prayer (Ignatius Press, 1989).

James D. G. Dunn, ed., Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible, p. 644. “Apparently Ezekiel discovers this by revelation or extrasensory perception.” (ESP is revelation and vice versa.)

Charles Carter, ed. The Wesleyan Bible Commentary: Romans-Philemon (1965), p. 207. “It must also be recognized, however, that there are super-psychic and other highly gifted individuals who apparently have certain powers of extra-sensory or trans-somatic nature that enable them to acquire knowledge that remains a mystery to sense experience.”

Geoffrey Bromiley, ed. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1988, vol. 4), p. 993.