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Signs of the
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What You Will Learn
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CHAPTER 1
What Is A Prophet?
1:1 Signs of the
Prophetic Calling
1:4 What is a prophet?
1:11 My Testimony
1:14 Do Prophets Still
Exist?
1:19 The 'Good Old
Days'
1:23 The Importance of
Speaking in Tongues
CHAPTER 2
Enduring Preparation
2:1 The Gift of Prophecy
2:15 Interpreting
Tongues
2:29 The Preparation of
the Prophet
2:41 The Rejection of
the Prophet
CHAPTER 3
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LECTURER:
Les D. Crause
Apostle & Founder
Global Ministry Resource
Network
SUBJECTS in this course section are:
Signs of Prophetic Calling
The Prophetic Purpose
The Prophetic Gifts
Prophetic Utterance
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Living Life's Lessons
3:1 Death of a Vision
3:4 Resurrection of a
Vision
3:8 Submitting to
Authority
3:16 The Call
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3:28 Severing the Ties
3:48 Using My Faith
3:58 The Start of
Training
CHAPTER 4
Practical Application
4:1 Tapping Into the
Spirit
4:4 Spiritual Second
Wind
4:11 Prophetic
Intercession
4:18 Entering the Secret
Place of Fellowship
4:27 Learning to Walk in
Love
4:30 Learning to Hear
Correctly
4:36 Dealing with
Deception
4:39 Learning to
Prophesy
CHAPTER 5
The Realm Of The Spirit
5:1 Identifying Spiritual
Visions
5:5 Working with Angels
5:12 Interpreting Your
Tongues
5:27 Interpreting Your
Dreams
5:31 Using the Word of
Wisdom
5:34 Learning From
Other Prophets
5:43 Prophetic
Internship
5:53 Practicing the
Prophetic Gifts
CHAPTER 6
Ten Signs Of The
Prophetic Calling
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6:1 Signs of the
Prophetic Calling
6:3 Sign No 1 - A
Ministry to the Church
6:6 Sign No 2 - A Unique
Approach
6:8 Sign No 3 Swinging the Pendulum
6:10 Sign No 4 Humiliation
6:13 Sign No 5 Singleness of Purpose
6:15 Sign No 6 Unconscious Revelation
6:17 Sign No 7 Allegorical Thinking
6:19 Sign No 8 - Prayer
Orientation
6:21 Sign No 9 Bringing God's Presence
Through Music
6:23 Sign No 10 - Tough
Experiences in Life
6:25 The Blessing of
Being a Prophet
6:27 The Responsibility
of Being a Prophet
The
Prophetic
Purpose
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CHAPTER 7
Prophetic Purpose (1)
7:1 Prophetic Purpose
7:5 Why Do We Need
Prophets Today?
7:8 What Qualities Are
Important?
7:12 Faith, Love and
Hope
7:15 First Goal: Faith,
Love and Hope
7:17 What is Faith?
7:25 Faith is Based on
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7:27 Faith Comes From
a Rhema Word
7:29 Faith Has an
Assurance
7:39 Producing Love
7:46 Producing Hope
CHAPTER 8
8:1 Second Goal: A Full
Knowledge of the Lord
8:7 The Righteousness
of God
8:10 Condemnation
Does Not Produce Hope
8:16 Jesus' Inheritance
in the Saints
8:24 Revelation of His
Power
8:46 Every Part of the
Body is Vital
CHAPTER 9
9:1 Third Goal:
Preparing Believers For
Ministry
9:15 Identifying Gifts
and Ministries
9:39 Impartation of Gifts
9:50 Impartation
Through Discipleship
9:53 Common Errors
9:54 Producing Doubt
Instead of Faith
9:57 Producing Fear
Instead of Love
9:60 Producing Despair
Instead of Hope
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Gifts
The
Prophetic
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CHAPTER 10
Prophetic Gifts (1)
10:1 Prophetic Gifts
10:4 The Gifts of the
Spirit
10:12 Gifts and
Manifestations
10:17 The Vocal Gifts
10:19 Diverse Tongues
10:21 Interpretation of
Tongues
10:28 Prophecy
10:33 Gifts of Revelation
10:35 Word of
Knowledge
10:38 Word of Wisdom
10:41 Discerning of
Spirits
10:46 Power Gifts
10:47 Gift of Faith
10:49 Gifts of Healings
10:52 Gift of Miracles
CHAPTER 11
Prophetic Gifts (2)
11:1 The Role of the
Trinity in Gifts
11:9 Body Ministries
11:30 Leadership
Ministries
11:34 Leadership Offices
11:41 Role of the Father
11:44 Ways of Receiving
Revelation
11:46 The Mind
11:71 Sense of Hearing
11:75 Sense of Smell
11:77 Sense of Taste
11:80 Sense of Touch
11:83 Emotions
11:89 The Will
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11:91 Words
11:110 Power Gifts
CHAPTER 12
Prophetic Gifts (3)
12:1 Internal and
External Manifestations
12:6 From the Belly
12:13 Releasing the
Anointing from Within
12:15 External
Manifestations
12:17 Prophetic Use of
the Gifts
12:19 Intercession
12:23 Interpretation of
Tongues
12:28 Prophecy
12:30 Prophetic Decree
12:38 In Counseling
CHAPTER 13
Prophetic Gifts (4)
13:1 Identifying
Ministries
13:3 Warning
13:6 Discerning of
Spirits
13:25 Impartation
13:37 Gift of Faith
13:39 Rhema Words
13:49 Gift of Healing
13:54 Essential Gifts
Prophetic
Utterance
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Prophetic Utterance (1)
14:1 Prophetic Utterance
14:3 The Word of the
Lord
14:11 When Should a
Prophet Speak?
14:18 Only When You
Have Heard From God
14:21 Only When You
Are Sure
14:30 The Right Time
and Place
CHAPTER 15
15:1 Even When There
is Opposition
15:25 When Should a
Prophet Not Speak
15:27 Use Your Urim
and Thummim
15:30 Avoiding Prejudice
15:36 Waiting on Others
CHAPTER 16
16:1 What Should a
Prophet Speak?
16:3 Old Testament
Examples
16:20 Speaking Forth
Decrees
16:23 Directive Words
16:27 Paul and Agabus
16:37 Words of
Encouragement
16:39 Warning and
Judgement
16:44 Always Based on
the Word
16:47 The Canon of
Scripture
CHAPTER 17
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17:1 How Should the
Prophet Speak?
17:5 In the Local Church
17:16 In Love and Not
Malice
17:23 In the Power of
the Spirit
17:31 In Dreams and
Visions
17:33 The Gift of
Prophecy
17:35 Teaching and
Preaching
17:37 Proclamation
17:39 To the World
17:42 Prediction
17:44 To the Creation
17:46 To the Enemy
CHAPTER 18
18:1 In Actions
18:10 In Song
18:12 Prophetic Song
18:16 Warfare Song
18:21 The Word Must be
Sent Forth
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LECTURER:
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Global Ministry Resource Network
Signs of Prophetic Calling
The Prophetic Gifts
Prophetic Utterance
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Chapter 1 - What Is A Prophet
PRELUDE TO PROPHETIC FOUNDATION
What This Section Will Teach You
Signs of the Prophetic Calling
In this lecture you will learn:
How to identify if you are a prophet by comparing your
own experiences with those of Les D. Crause as he shares
how God called and prepared him for the Prophetic Office.
The TEN clear signs that point to the Prophetic Calling
By the end of this lecture you will know whether you are called to be a
prophet or not.
Highlights of This Lecture Are:
The Importance of Tongues in Prophetic Ministry
Learning how to prophesy
Dealing with rejection
Recognizing a Death of a Vision
Entering a love relationship with Jesus
Learning to operate in visions
Using your dreams
The Ten Signs
That the goal of all Prophetic Ministry is to produce faith,
hope and love
That New Testament prophets are different to Old
Testament prophets
How to use your ministry to identify and impart spiritual
gifts
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An understanding of what true faith is
The place that hope and love play
The Righteousness of God in Prophetic Ministry
Identifying gifts and ministries in others
The importance of mentoring and discipleship
Mistakes prophets often make
By the end of this lecture you will have a totally new perspective of the
Prophetic Ministry and will likely have to re-examine your motives and
approach in ministry.
The Prophetic Gifts
How to recognize the gifts of the Spirit
Which gifts should operate in you as a prophet
How to develop the gifts you already have
How to receive the gifts you lack
Learning to use diverse tongues
The importance of discerning of spirits
How to receive revelation using the senses
The internal and external anointings
Using the gifts in intercession
The counseling role of the prophet
Identifying ministries in others
By the end of this lecture you will have a deep desire to move more in the
gifts of the Spirit and you will find yourself functioning in ways you have
never operated before in the gifts.
Prophetic Utterance
When to speak out as a prophet and when to remain
silent
How to issue prophetic decrees
The role of the prophet in a local church
How to send forth a prophetic utterance
The irrevocable Word of the Lord
Speaking in the midst of opposition
Using your spiritual Urim and Thummim
Directive prophecy versus exhortation and
encouragement
How to issue warnings as a prophet
Prophecy and the Scriptures
The role of prediction in prophecy
Prophetic acting
Using prophetic songs
By the end of this lecture you will understand better how to function in a
local church and how NOT to function in a local church, and you will now be
able to bring change without giving normal prophetic utterances, but
by issuing prophetic decrees.
CHAPTER 1
What Is A Prophet?
LECTURER: LES D. CRAUSE
1Signs of the Prophetic Calling
2 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them:
whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; or ministry, let
us wait on our ministering; or he that teaches, on teaching; or he that exhorts, on
exhortation; he that gives, let him do it with simplicity; he that rules, let him do it with
diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness. Romans 12:6
3 And though I have prophetic insight, and understand all the hidden things and all the
known things, and though I have absolute faith, so that I could remove mountains, and
do not have love, I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:2
4What is a prophet?
5 What picture comes to your mind when somebody mentions the word prophet? Is a
prophet somebody who tells the future? Do you think of men like Nostradamus when
you hear the word prophet? Do you think of fortune telling, predicting what is going to
take place? Do you think of Bible prophecy and the Second Coming of Christ?
6 What does a prophet do? Can he read your mind, tell you what you are thinking; tell
you the secrets of your heart? Can
he tell you God's will for your life? Is he an austere
person who preaches fiery sermons and messages of
condemnation, and exposes your sin?
7 Today God is restoring the Prophetic Ministry to the
church in a way as never before. The Prophetic Ministry
has always been there, but everybody is becoming more
aware of it today. Prophets are springing up
everywhere, and people are asking these questions:
8 How will I know if I am called to be a prophet? And if I
am called to be a prophet, how is it going to manifest in
me? How is God going to train me? What kind of
preparation do I need?
9 There are many questions concerning the ministry of
the prophet, and there is a lot of teaching out now on
this ministry. Those that God has raised up to the
Prophetic Ministry are sharing what He has taught them,
"If I am called
to be a
prophet, how
is it going to
manifest in
me? How is
God going to
train me?"
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and what they understand concerning the Prophetic
Ministry. So there are a lot of voices speaking and
teaching on the Prophetic Ministry, and Prophetic Office. Many are confused, but others
are coming to a better understanding of what is going on.
10 We are going to add our teaching now also, in terms of what God has taught us
from the Word. Our ministry is based on the apostolic and prophetic foundation, and
therefore we want to share with you some of the principles that God has shown us
concerning the ministry of the prophet. I am going to start by sharing my own personal
experiences; how God called me to the Prophetic Ministry and trained me, and how He
raised me up and began to use me.
11My Testimony
12 As I share some of these experiences with you, perhaps you will be able to identify
with some of the things that I went through. You might not identify with all of them. It
does not necessarily mean that God is going to take you through the same stages that
He took me. God called me to an apostolic function, and He took me through the
Prophetic Ministry and training in order to get me to the apostolic. Not everybody
follows that route, so some of what I share may not apply to you. But I am going to go
through it so that you can have a little insight into the kind of things that God uses to
prepare his prophets. I am going to share memories and experiences and things I
learned along the way. I will open my heart to you a bit and share what God taught
me, what He showed me, what He did in me, and what He is still doing in me.
13 Perhaps somewhere along the line a few pennies will begin to drop and you will start
to gain a greater insight. You will begin to understand and identify how God prepares
His prophets. You will understand how prophets function, how they move into their
ministry, and many other questions that you might have concerning the Prophetic
Ministry are likely to be answered. After I have laid this foundation I am going to look
at exactly what the Word teaches concerning the Prophetic Ministry, what God requires
of us as prophets, and everything associated with the Prophetic Ministry.
14Do Prophets Still Exist?
15 I remember the first time I ever heard somebody talking about a prophet and how
this old man, who was a prophet, would receive revelations. Folks would be sitting at
the dinner table with him, and he would share a word and begin to identify some of the
problems that they had. He seemed to know all about them.
16 I listened to all this and I felt a bit nervous. I thought, "It doesn't sound quite right.
Something is wrong here. Does
God still work that way? I know the Old Testament prophets were like that, but do we
still have that in the New Testament? Surely that has all been done away with now?
Surely we do not have that kind of thing? It sounds a bit spooky to me. It sounds a bit
... kind of new age, occultish. I feel a bit nervous about this guy. There is something
wrong here." It just did not sound right.
17 Of course in those days I was somewhat ignorant of
the prophetic realm, and so I did not understand much
of what was happening. But many people today have
that same impression and attitude. There are many who
have grown up as Christians and have been believers
for years, have served God, been in His Word,
witnessed for the Lord, and exercised many other
ministries. But when you say 'prophet' they get their
backs up and say, "That is not for today. God doesn't do
that anymore. It is not needed. It is not necessary. We
have the Bible now. We do not need any special
revelation."
18 I thought that at the beginning too, and it took God
a while to begin to change my attitude and show me
that there was a whole lot more for me, and for the
Body of Christ, that was not being embraced and
experienced by the Church.
"It sounds a
bit ... kind of
new age,
occultish. I
feel a bit
nervous about
this guy. There
is something
wrong here."
19The 'Good Old Days'
20 I grew up in a Pentecostal Christian home. My parents had also grown up in a
Christian home and even their parents had been Christians. I came from several
generations of Pentecostal Christians. They dated from the early Pentecostal revival in
the days of John G Lake, and Smith Wigglesworth, and others who were used so
tremendously by the Lord.
21 I heard all the stories about how God moved back in those days. It was a bit like the
Children of Israel who had grown up long after the Exodus. Their parents would tell
them about the wonderful things that God had done way back when He delivered them
from Egypt and performed all the miracles in the wilderness. I am sure the kids sat
there and thought, "Wow. Those must have been some days, hey? But they are gone.
We don't see that anymore."
22 That was the kind of situation I grew up in. I heard all about these things, but I did
not see them anymore. I remember when the Lord finally brought me to that
experience with Him where He filled me with His Holy Spirit. I began to realize for the
first time that there was a realm there that I had not really touched. I had heard plenty
about it, but I had not really experienced it.
23The Importance of Speaking in Tongues
24 So God began to lead me into a spiritual dimension that had not been in my life
before. I remember that I was one of those unfortunate people that could not speak in
tongues. Everybody was speaking in tongues, and you were a third rate Christian if you
did not do it. Every young teenager and the kids were speaking in tongues, and I was
going on 20, and I was not speaking in tongues yet. I grew up in a Pentecostal home
and I still could not speak in tongues! I would go forward in meetings to receive it, and
there would be a little ten-year-old next to me who would get it in a flash. Then they
would pray for me, and Les Crause would walk away still not able to speak in tongues.
I just could not get it. I could not understand what was going on.
25 Then one day I met the Lord in the Spirit and He became real to me. He took my
life and turned me inside out. He manifested Himself to me, and placed His power on
me. He placed in me a desire to go out and do His work, and to give myself fully for
Him and the extension of His Kingdom. The power of God 'hit' me and I wept before
the Lord. I was
overwhelmed with His glory and power, and I could feel
it physically. But I could not speak in tongues!
26 I knew that I had changed. I knew that I had
received this 'baptism of the Holy Spirit' that they were
talking about, but I could not speak in tongues. Oh
Lord! I would see people come in and they would get
saved this week, and next week they would go forward
for prayer and they would speak in tongues. I began to
say, "Lord, I must have this thing! Lord, you have called
me to your work already, and I still can' speak in
tongues. What is going on?"
27 But God had to train me in the gifts in a way that He
does not train other people. He had to make me the
exception to the rule. And every time I would hear
these Pentecostals say, "Well, we believe in the baptism
of the Holy Spirit, with the scriptural evidence that is
speaking in tongues," I would say, "Baloney! You guys
are just interpreting your experience into a doctrine. I
received the baptism and I didn't speak in tongues."
People do not like you preaching that. It rocks their
doctrine a bit. But I could not help it. I could not speak
in tongues.
"Baloney! You
guys are just
interpreting
your
experience
into a
doctrine. I
received the
baptism and I
didn't speak in
tongues."
28 I began to seek the Lord, and I said, "Lord, I must
have this thing. Lord, everybody else is speaking in
tongues." I was rising up and was already a Youth Leader in the church, and all the
young people under me could speak in tongues but the Youth Leader could not speak in
tongues. I tell you, it was a bad situation.
29 I waited on the Lord in prayer and fasting, and I would say, "Lord, why can't I speak
in tongues? Why aren't you giving me this thing?"
30 Some thoughts came to my mind like, "There is still sin in your life. The problem
with you is you use your tongue to criticize too much. You have been using bad
language. How can the Holy Spirit use an impure tongue? How can God fill you with His
Spirit when there is sin in your life?" Oh I struggled. I dealt with the sin; I dealt with
my tongue. It was so difficult.
31 Then a Scripture took root in my heart. Paul said, "I want you to all speak with
tongues. I want you to all... ALL... ALL speak with tongues."
32 I said, "That is me! I am part of all. I have to speak in tongues. God said it,
therefore I must have it!" And I remember the day when I had just had enough. It was
a Sunday afternoon and everybody was having an afternoon rest. I tried to lie down,
but I could not relax because I was tossing and turning. So I walked through to the
living room alone to pray, and I said, "I want it, and I want it now! I am not going to
leave here, Lord, until you give it to me."
33 I do not want to major on tongues here, because I want to get into the Prophetic
Ministry. But God showed me that day as I began to wait on Him, that we do not
receive these things by works or by being holy enough to receive them. We reach out
and we take them by faith. So I closed my eyes and I took my 'hand of faith', whatever
that is. Inside I could see me reaching out and grabbing that thing and I was saying, "I
am taking it now!" Then I opened my mouth and I started to say any old thing. I began
to speak in tongues slowly.
34 I thought, "This is nonsense. This can't be tongues." I tried going a little faster. "No
that can't be tongues." It sounded a bit like tongues, but was it tongues? I said, "Lord I
do not feel a thing. Is this tongues? Have I got it now?" Then I said, "Lord, I need
some kind of confirmation. I want you to give me a tongue that I can understand. I
want you to give me a 'click' language from the African dialects. Then I will know that
this is real because there is no way that I could do that in the natural."
35 So I opened my mouth and I began to pray, and I prayed in an African click
language. Wow, that was God! It just began to pour out of me. I began to feel as
though I was lifted up, and as I raised my hands I began to feel the glory and the
power of God begin to come down on me and to pour into me. A fountain started to
flow and it started to pour out of me. I could not stop, and it went on and on, as fast as
what my poor tongue could speak. Then I knew that God had
given me what I had asked Him for.
36 Did I receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit that day? No I believe I received it way
back at the beginning, a long time before that. I entered into a new gift, a new
manifestation in the Spirit that I had never had before. I read in the Bible that it was
the gift of diverse tongues, or different kinds of tongues. So I said, "Lord, I want to
speak in different tongues. I want a different one now." Then I opened my mouth and I
spoke in another language. I said, "Father, this is amazing. Am I really speaking in
tongues? Lord, I want a different one." And then I spoke in yet another language.
37 Hey, it was so exciting I began to experiment.
Eventually I had about five or six tongues that I could
choose from. I can still use them. They are still there.
One sounds like Russian, another sounds like German,
the other is clearly African. It was a gift of different
tongues that God had given to me. I would find there
were times when I would begin to pray and I would say,
"Father, I do not know what to pray. Give me
something in the Spirit. Give me the correct words to
pray for the need that is here." I would begin to pray
and suddenly my tongue would change. I would find
myself praying in a completely different tongue that I
had never used before.
38 I would pray and pray, and I would feel in the Spirit
that I was praying something real, that I was being
inspired and led by the Lord. I would continue praying
until gradually the burden that I felt within me would
begin to wane, and I would find myself coming back to
the regular tongue that I seemed to use all the time. I
said, "Wow, is that in the Bible? I have never heard
people talking about this before. I have never heard of
anybody doing that kind of thing."
"One sounds
like Russian,
another
sounds like
German, the
other is clearly
African. It was
a gift of
different
tongues that
God had given
to me."
39 I would open the Bible and find a Scripture and I
would say, "Okay Lord, I want to say that Scripture in
tongues." Then I would speak out in tongues, and
something would come out of my mouth that was
completely different. I thought, "Did I really speak in
tongues what was there?" I am not sure, but it was fun. I started to experiment with it.
Hey, I had waited so long for this that I had said to the Lord, "You give me this thing
and I will use it every day."
40 I went wild. Everywhere I went I spoke in tongues. I would be driving in my car
speaking in tongues. People would pull in next to me and they would look at me
strangely, so I would cover my mouth with my hand so they would not think I was
crazy. Everywhere I went, every time I was alone I would be speaking in tongues. It
was exciting, it was wonderful. I was on cloud nine. I could not stop. I knew what Paul
was talking about when he said, "I thank God I speak with tongues more than all of
you." Paul knew that he could use it to tap into a new power that was there.
41 I realized that all those that received it so easily did not appreciate it. They would
wait until they were in a meeting and the anointing would come on them, and then
they would speak in tongues. But they would go home and never speak in tongues
again. I said, "Lord, this is a gift that needs to be used. This is something we should
use all the time." Every time I went to pray I started speaking in tongues.
42 I would sing until I ran out of words, and then I would take the same tune of the
song and would start singing it in tongues. Then I started making up songs in the Spirit
in tongues. Oh, I had some wonderful experiences in tongues, let me tell you. I will
share a bit more of that as we go on. But you see God had given me a Word that said,
"I want you all to speak with tongues." I took hold of that Scripture promise. I laid a
hold of it by faith, and I reached out and took what God had offered me.
43 I read in the Scriptures about all the other gifts, and I thought, "Wow!" I could see
myself standing there saying, "Everybody who has a problem, please come forward and
make a line here." I could see myself going down the healing line and praying for
people, and God performing miracles. Oh, I began to dream.
Chapter 2 - Enduring Preparation
CHAPTER 2
1The Gift of Prophecy
2 After that I thought, "Oh Lord, I have spoken in tongues. I want to prophesy now.
Man, I wish I could prophesy. I wish I could speak Your Word in English now." I read in
1 Corinthians 14, where Paul began to speak about prophecy being greater than
tongues. He said, "It is great that you speak in tongues, but it is better that you
prophesy." Then he said something that hit me right between the eyes. He said, "For
you may all prophesy."
Well maybe he was talking about it in the context of
everybody sharing or whatever. It did not matter what
he was talking about, that word 'all' just stood out in
great big gold letters at me. All... All... For you may all
speak with tongues, and you may all prophesy.
3 I said, "That is me! I am 'all'! I am going to prophesy.
It is mine! I took tongues that way, now I'm also taking
prophecy that way!"
4 I began to tell everybody, "I am going to prophesy.
The Word says, 'You may all prophesy,' therefore I am
going to prophesy. God is going to give me the gift of
prophecy and I am going to speak a word of prophecy.
You wait and see. It is going to happen!" Oh, I could not
wait. I did not know how it would happen, but I began
to believe and speak it forth.
"You may all
prophesy,'
therefore I am
going to
prophesy. God
is going to
give me the
gift of
prophecy."
5 God gave it to me at a time when I least expected it.
We were having a prayer time, a little family gettogether, and my mother needed a word of prayer at
that time. I do not know if she was feeling down or
whatever it was, but I came to lay hands on her, and as
I did so suddenly I began to feel this nervous feeling inside my stomach. A few words
came into my mind, "You shall go forth in My name and..." And what?
6 "And..."
7 "You shall go forth in My name and..."
8 I said, "Lord, and what?"
9 He said, "Speak those, and I will give you the rest!"
10 I had never prophesied before, but I opened my mouth and I began to speak. And
as I did so the words came out and I found myself saying things that staggered me. I
thought, "I must be making this up. This is just too good to be true. This can't be."
11 I spoke and I spoke and it just poured and bubbled. Then it was over, and I
thought, "What did I say?" I spoke in the name of the Lord. I spoke His words over
somebody! And there was a prediction that went with it. The reality hit me and I sat
there dazed, thinking, "Wow! I actually spoke for God. I spoke a prophetic word. Hey, I
said I was going to get the gift of prophecy. This is it, it has arrived. Glory! Hallelujah!"
It had come. The very gift I had reached out and claimed from the Lord had come.
12 Now I had heard people give words of prophecy. It is great when you are in a
meeting and you can say, "Thus saith the Lord, 'Behold I am with you and you need
not fear...' " There are probably one or two there who have fear so if I miss it on one
count maybe I will hit the other one. Somebody might say, "Well, I think that prophecy
was for me." But nobody would have the courage to come and say, "You were wrong.
That did not apply to anybody." However, when you prophesy over only one person
and you start saying things like, "You have thought in your heart... And you have said
this... And the Lord would say to you, you are this, and you have been thinking that,
and you are going to do that," ...when it is over you sit and think, "Ooh, what if I was
wrong? What if I was out of order? What am I going to do if they turn to me and say,
'Where did you get that from? It is a
load of nonsense. I have never thought that. I have
never wanted to do that. What are you talking about?' "
13 It can be traumatic. I became a bit nervous of this
thing and I thought, "Lord, this prophecy thing is great.
I'm glad I have it, but we will just put it on the shelf for
now until I am a little more experienced in this thing
and I know how to handle it. So just cool it Lord, okay?
Thanks for the gift, but we'll keep it until later."
"...when it is
over you sit
and think,
"Ooh, what if I
was wrong?
What if I was
out of order?"
14 I became very nervous and insecure about speaking
a word of prophecy, and I avoided using that gift again
for a while until the Lord eventually opened the way for
me to go into full time ministry. By that time my
ministry had developed strongly in the Word, and a very
clear Teaching Ministry was showing. I could stand up
and preach and proclaim the Word and give teaching,
and it was wonderful. People would come to me and
say, "Do you know you are a Bible teacher? You have a
real Teaching Ministry." Everywhere I went my Teaching Ministry manifested and it was
great.
15Interpreting Tongues
16 God put me in a little church as my first pastorate, a small church that had just
been established. It was still very young. I thought, "Well, they need a teacher now to
ground them in the Word." So I walked into that church and nobody knew anything
about flowing in the gifts. But somebody brought a gift of tongues one day, and we sat
there waiting for an interpretation, but there was no interpretation. I sat thinking, "I
wish somebody would interpret." But nobody did, and it worried me.
17 I discussed this with a fellow minister that I fellowshipped with at that time and he
said, "You know Les, God showed me that in a meeting if I am the pastor, people are
expecting me to interpret and bring the prophecies." He said, "Although I had never
flowed in it before, I had to realize that I needed to by faith, reach out and open my
mouth and speak forth, and let God give it to me." He said, "If that happens again, you
are going to have to learn to bring the interpretation because the people are looking to
you as the pastor to do that."
18 Ooh! I said, "No, I'm a teacher, not a prophet." But I knew he was right, and God
did not let me off the hook. Somebody went and brought a message in tongues again.
This time I prayed and said, "Lord, please give somebody the interpretation." But
nobody brought it, and the Lord said, "It is you! It is your turn to speak."
19 I remember that day as I opened my mouth and stumbled... and bumbled... and
fumbled. I spoke the first thing that came into my mind and it did not feel very
anointed. But I guess the people were satisfied with it, and it made sense.
20 It was difficult, but I learned that there is a step of faith involved in reaching out
and claiming the gifts. As I had reached out and taken tongues; as I had reached out
and
taken prophecy, I had to reach out now and take the gift of interpretation of tongues.
And
so I had to learn to start developing confidence in these
things, and I needed to start exercising them.
21 Many believers sit and wait for God to use somebody
else. You might sit there and you have that nervous
feeling coming inside of you, and you start feeling
butterflies in your stomach. Your heart starts going
'doof, doof, doof' and you know God wants you to
speak. But if God has raised up somebody else that is
confident and bold and they are quick to bring the
interpretation and quick to bring the prophecy, you
begin to make excuses like, "But Lord, Sister So-and-so
is really good at that. I'm sure she will get it. Please
Lord, please Lord .." You wait and you wait. And
eventually Sister So-and-so gets it because God has a
Word for His people and He is going to give it. So that
person speaks, and you heave a sigh of relief. Whew!
Thank goodness. But you walk out of there with a sense
of guilt, knowing, "I was meant to bring that Word
"As I had
reached out
and taken
tongues; as I
had reached
out and taken
prophecy, I
had to reach
today and I didn't bring it. I disobeyed the Lord."
22 It takes a step of faith. It takes courage to speak
forth and to exercise the gifts that God gives you. Way
back there already, although I did not realize it, God
was preparing me for the Prophetic Ministry, and He
was already beginning to move upon me and impress
upon me that He was wanting me to speak forth His
Word to the people. I was to minister forth to their
needs, and to prophetically speak forth the Word of
God.
out now and
take the gift of
interpretation
of tongues."
23 Well, I stumbled with it, and I battled with it, and it was difficult. I kept trying to get
back to the Teaching Ministry and the Lord kept saying, "I want you to move in the
Spirit. These people need a spiritual ministry." The only other gift I had ever moved in
at that time was the gift of discerning of spirits, and I was in a place where there were
demons everywhere, and witchcraft in the area. So the gift of discerning of spirits kept
coming up, and I kept trying to push it aside and say, "I am a teacher."
24 The Lord kept saying, "These people are under oppression. They need help.
Respond to what I am revealing to you!"
25 It was a difficult lesson. Eventually when the time had come for me to already move
away and arrangements had been made to move me out of that church, I guess I
finally came to the point where I thought, "Well I can't do any harm. If I mess up now,
it does not matter. I'll just move in the revelation God gives me and share with the
people what God shows me."
26 Suddenly things began to happen. People began to say to me, "Wow, why didn't you
do this before? Why are you leaving? We need you here."
27 God was showing me that He does not impose these things on us. He places these
things in you, but you have to let them out. You have to exercise them. You have to be
bold and have the courage to speak forth the Word that He gives. But as you take that
courage and boldness, and as you take that step of faith, it begins to increase. It
begins
to get better, and you become more confident in it.
28 So God gave me my first few little tastes of a Prophetic Ministry. There were no
wonderful revelations, no marvelous Prophetic Ministry or Prophetic Office, the thought
not even entering into my mind that I was to be a prophet, because I was a teacher.
Everywhere I traveled people still said, "Wow, you are a great teacher!" So God
brought me to a place where the teaching gifts could not function any more.
29The Preparation of the Prophet
30 The country I was living in came to an economic
crisis, and my Senior Minister said to me the one day,
"Les we cannot afford to support you financially
anymore. You will have to go back to secular
employment."
31 I had to come to a decision, so I prayed about it and
God said, "Move. Leave and go to another country." So
we moved and went to the country that was south of
us, which was more economically stable.
32 Going south involved a new step of faith. It meant
giving up full-time ministry. It meant going down in
faith, not knowing if I could ever move back into
ministry again because there was no post waiting for
me down there. As we said our farewells at the airport,
my Senior Pastor said to me, "Les, your Teaching
Ministry has been successful wherever you have gone. If
it does not work out down there then come on back. I
can put you anywhere here."
"But as you
take that
courage and
boldness, and
as you take
that step of
faith, it begins
to increase."
33 But God had closed that door, and although I did not know it at the time, He was
leading me into a time of preparation for the new ministry office I was to embrace ...
the Prophetic Office.
34 So we boarded the plane and flew south to South Africa, and as the flight proceeded
things began to go wrong for us. We did not realize on booking that it was an excursion
flight and did not include meals, and the children were hungry all the way down. We
left the plane and there was nobody there to meet us at first. When the folks arrived
we found that they had assumed we would already have eaten on the plane and had
not prepared supper for us. There was confusion and misunderstanding. It was an
awful start to our new life in this country.
35 I had arranged a job that was waiting for me before we moved. But when I went to
see the person shortly after arriving he said, "I am sorry. I meant to get hold of you
and let you know, but the job opportunity has fallen through. It is not available for you
anymore." It seemed that from the moment we boarded that plane things started to go
wrong, wrong, wrong! The world would have said, "Bad luck!" Well if we were to use
that term, bad luck was our lot. One thing after another, problem after problem,
everything started to go wrong in my life.
36 I had always been able to break through this kind of thing in the past. I had always
been able to stand in faith on the Word and reach out and trust God, and somehow at
the last minute God would always bring us through. Some miracle would always take
place and we would be delivered. Things would fall into place, people would change
their attitudes, and new circumstances would be created. It always seemed to work
out. But it looked like these rules did not apply in this new land. Those must have been
rules for another country.
37 I remember sitting with a diary one day after we had been there for a while, and
making a list of everything that had gone wrong from the time we arrived. I arrived at
only one conclusion - anything that could go wrong had gone wrong! I could not find
anything that had gone right. I could not understand it. We were forced to live with
other people, largely family and relatives. Have you ever stayed with family? It does
not take long when you are in a family with three little kids, for nerves to get on each
other, for tempers to begin to flare. There was conflict, and we ended up moving from
one home to another home, to another home, until eventually the family were weary of
us and we had to go to other Christians. In time they grew weary of us too. Talk about
things going wrong? I did not know what was happening. I could not understand it.
38 Eventually the Lord opened the way for me to find a job, a very low paying job
which was barely enough for us to survive. However it included company housing so we
could have a house of our own to stay in. I thanked the Lord for that job, even though
it meant getting up early in the morning, catching a bus to travel way out to where I
would work, working there all day then coming back late at night on the bus again.
What a life it was, working long, hard hours for a pittance. It was really difficult.
39 Now I needed to settle into a church situation. I had come down, having been in
ministry, so I said, "Lord I'm in ministry. Where am I going to minister?" I went to see
the senior overseer or moderator, whatever he was, of the Assemblies of God in which
I was ordained, and he said, "I am afraid I do not have a vacancy for you here. But I'll
tell you what you can do. Go and settle down in one of the local assemblies so that I
know where you are, and if something comes up, I will give you a shout, and we'll talk
about whether we can put you into an assembly and get you back into the work again."
40 So I thought, "Wonderful. I will just fit into one of the local assemblies. I will settle
in and give them a second pastor for free! They can have two pastors for the price of
one. Here I am folks! My ministry is available to you. I have this Teaching Ministry. God
has blessed it elsewhere." I had the opportunity to share in open ministry meetings
that they held, so there was no difficulty. There was plenty of opportunity for me to
share, and it was wonderful. I began to share all of the wonderful things that God had
taught me, and I saw the same results I had experienced elsewhere. The people loved
it and began to respond to it. They would come and question me and respond to my
ministry and share with me.
41The Rejection of the Prophet
42 I thought, "This is great. I have settled in. I am beginning to exercise my ministry."
But I realized that there was one individual in the church who was not particularly
happy about my success in ministry, and he was the current pastor. It did not take
long for him to teach against what I was teaching. It did not take long for him to
preach against some of
the doctrines that I stood for and for a conflict situation to develop, for a tension to
begin to exist in the church.
43 I said, "Lord, that is not what I came here for. Oh, Father, let me not be a
stumbling block." So I gently eased out of the church. I
did not want to step on the toes of the man of God that
was there. I did not want to cause confusion in the
flock, so I pulled out and left.
44 Where could we go to now? We had to travel a bit
further afield to try and find another church. I wanted to
stick to that denomination because that is where I
would have the opportunity to move back into ministry.
So I would find another church a bit further afield and
we would travel a distance to get there. We would pitch
in, and the same thing would happen again, until I
began to cry out, "Oh Lord, what did you bring me down
here for? Father, you have called me to the work. I am
trying to do what you have called me to do. I am being
faithful in it. But Lord wherever I go I am facing
rejection and causing problems instead of helping."
45 Eventually I was forced to not attend anymore or get
involved in any of the Assembly of God churches, so I
tried an independent one. I do not know if my
reputation had gone ahead of me already, but when we
tried to get involved the message was clearly given
that, "You go so far and no further!"
"I realized that
there was one
individual in
the church
who was not
particularly
happy about
my success in
ministry"
46 I came in saying, "Here I am, a qualified minister, a preacher, a pastor. You can
have what I have for free."
47 I was offered the position of usher. I did not understand that God was trying to
humble me. At that time I did not know what He was doing to me. I could not
understand why these things were going wrong. I thought, "Lord, you have called me
to a promotion in ministry. You showed me that you are going to use me. But from the
time I left the plane everything has gone wrong in my life. I have had conflict with
people that I know, and now Lord even in your house, even in your church, in your
Body, I am being rejected! I am having people misunderstand me and turn against me
and ostracize me. They restrict me and put me in my place, and do not allow me to do
what you have called me to do. Father, why did you bring me here?"
Chapter 3 - Living Life's Lessons
CHAPTER 3
1Death of a Vision
2 We stopped going anywhere for a while. We just sat at home. I did not stop serving
the Lord. I would get into the Word by myself. I would share the Word with my family
and we would worship together. We would play music and sing, and we would pray and
have family devotions and serve the Lord. But wherever we went we could visit only as
strangers, with nobody getting to know us. I would go home from the meeting in
frustration thinking, "Lord, what is the point of me coming to this church, to come and
sit and warm the pews when you have given me a ministry, when you have placed a
calling in my life, and I do not have the opportunity to exercise it?"
3 The Lord brought me to a death, a total death of my calling, a total death of my
vision to minister for Him. I thought, "Forget it. I might as well just get back to secular
employment. I might as well do something unministerial, unspiritual. Just forget it!
Obviously this whole ministry thing was a big mistake." All the years I had been
waiting, I had never really tried to qualify in anything. I had never aimed for great
educational status. Why? Because God had called me from just after I had left school.
Why would I want to go and study and
obtain degrees and qualifications? The Lord was coming
soon. All I needed to qualify in was His Word, and
nothing more. And that was all I had studied. I was not
qualified in anything secular.
4Resurrection of a Vision
"Just forget it!
Obviously this
whole ministry
thing was a
big mistake."
5 The Lord brought that whole vision to a total death,
and eventually I was going nowhere. I could not fit in
with the Body of Christ anywhere. Then one day after I
had given up all hope, the Lord opened a new way and I
came across a church - an Assembly of God church that did not have a pastor. Oh, this was a whole new
ballpark! It was just an independent little church with a
couple of elders running the show, and they had open ministry each week. Every week
I could go there and attend and join in the fellowship and share with the folks. I could
stand up and preach, and people responded. Hey, even the elders liked my ministry. It
was wonderful!
6 The people responded. There was nobody there to say, "Oh, but you are preaching
wrong doctrine. I disagree with what you are preaching." The people loved it. They ate
it up.
7 I thought, "Lord this is it! You have opened the way at last for me to move back into
the ministry and become a full-time pastor again, and to take over your work. Oh Lord,
this is wonderful. Lord, just open the way. Let these people call me now to come and
take over. They are already looking to me in leadership."
8Submitting to Authority
9 However it seemed that the overseer of the area had a very different plan in mind,
and they called somebody else. We heard the news that someone from outside had
been called to take over as the pastor of the church. I was really grieved, and I asked,
"Lord, what is going on?"
10 The Lord said, "Just submit to it."
11 So when the new pastor arrived I went to him and said, "Brother, I just want you to
know I am behind you all the way. I am not opposed to you. I have been here
ministering to the people and I want to back you all the way. I want you to know that I
am here to help in any way that I can, and I do not want to oppose you, but rather to
give you my full backing."
12 What a victory that was for me! All the bitterness had gone out of my heart and I
had a wonderful victory to share with him. I settled down in the church, and would you
know it, the very first Sunday that he stood up to preach he preached one of the
sermons I had already preached there. And the next week he was sharing something
else that I had been sharing there. The guy had been looking at my notes! He started
to preach to the people all the principles I had been teaching them.
13 The Lord began to get a message across to me. He said, "There is someone else
who can do what you were doing."
14 I was totally confused. I said, "Lord, what are you doing here? Why did you bring
me here in the first place?"
15 Then one night a short while later it all became clear. We arrived early for the
Sunday evening service to gather for prayer as we often would do in that church. The
young folks were usually there and we would have a glorious time in the presence of
the Lord, praying the power of God down until the meeting started. We arrived that
night just a little later than usual. The prayer meeting had already begun and
everybody was flowing in the Spirit and having a great time. We walked in and sat
down in one of the back rows and began to enter in to the presence of the Lord. But as
I did this, it seemed like something was wrong. I said, "Lord, what is going on here?" I
could not enter in. It was like there was a barrier. I had a distinct impression of, "What
am I doing here?"
16The Call
17 As I sat there I sensed the voice of God speaking in me, in a clearer way than I had
ever heard it before. And He spoke these words. "You are finished here! Your time is
up.
You do not belong here anymore." My reaction was
one of panic.
18 "But Lord, this was my last hope of going into the
ministry again. This was my last chance. Lord you
brought me here specifically so I could go back into the
work, didn't you?"
19 "Nope."
20 I stood up and left the room, and walked out into the
fields that surrounded the building. The sun was going
down; it was sunset. I stood and looked out at the
freeway that ran past, and saw all the cars going back
and forth. As I stood there I cried out to the Lord and
said, "Lord, what is going on?"
21 His voice spoke once again so clearly in me. He said,
"You are finished here. The work here is done. I want
you out there now."
"I sensed the
voice of God
speaking in
me, in a
clearer way
than I had ever
heard it
before"
22 "What do you mean 'out there'?"
23 "You know what I mean. I want you to go out there and do something new."
24 My heart sank in fear, and I said, "Lord, what are you talking about? I am a
teacher, not an apostle. I can't go out and lay new foundations. I cannot go and start
something new. Lord, I am a teacher. You have to give me a church that is ready for
me to teach."
25 But the Lord said, "I want you out there. You are finished here."
26 It was so staggering, it was so startling, it was so traumatic, that we did not even
remain for the meeting, but went home. I asked, "Lord, what are you telling me? What
are you saying to me?" God began to put this growing conviction in my heart that I
must leave that church now, and when I said, "Lord where do I go to?" He said, "Just
leave the church. I will tell you where to go to afterwards."
27 I said, "Lord, how do I tell this new pastor that I am leaving now that he has
arrived? I have pledged my allegiance to him and told him, 'I am right behind you, I
am backing you all the way.' Now I have to tell him, 'I am leaving.' How shall I go
about it?"
28Severing the Ties
29 Well the Lord saved me the problem of having to pluck up the courage to go and
see the new pastor. He and his wife came to visit us that very week. "We have come to
establish the relationship now," they said. "You said you were going to be involved with
us. Let's start talking about how we can involve you."
30 "Umm, I have something to tell you guys."
31 "You do?"
32 "The Lord has told me I must leave."
33 "What are you talking about? What do you mean you want to leave. You said you
want to get involved. We want to help. We want to get you involved. We want you to
be part of this."
34 Their first reaction was disbelief, horror, and criticism. I began to share with them
what God had been placing in my heart. And as I did that the wife suddenly got a glow
on her face. She was a prophet. She saw it first and began to smile, and she said, "Yes,
you are correct. God confirms it to me." Well, her husband was very happy to go along
with it, and so he agreed as well. So they acknowledged that God had spoken to me
and that maybe this was of the Lord. They asked, "Where are you going to go?"
35 I said, "I do not know, but God has told me He wants me 'out there' wherever that
is."
36 We parted with their blessing and they prayed and committed us to the Lord
praying, "Father, just lead Les and show him the way and bless him, and lead him in
this new thing you have called him to." Then they walked out, and as they walked out,
the last opportunity I could ever have to go back into full-time ministry with the church
organization that had ordained me to the ministry also walked out. It was over, the
door
was closed. I had turned my back on my last opportunity. It was gone.
37Letting Go of All Self-Dependence
38 I now waited on the Lord and asked Him, "What do I do now Lord?"
39 The Lord said, "Leave your job."
40 "Lord, what are you talking about?"
41 "Pack up your job and go full-time for me."
42 I said, "Lord, I have been battling to pay my debts
with a job. We have doctor's bills that are huge, and I
have not paid those. How can I pack up my job?"
43 The Lord said, "Pack up your job because I am
calling you full-time."
44 That was a really hard one. I said, "Lord, I cannot
pack up my job because I have debts. If you want me
to go full-time, then you will have to pay my debts
first!"
45 The Lord said, "How much do you need?"
46 I worked out a figure and said, "Okay, that is how
many thousand I need. If you give me that Father, I will
obey you, and I will pack up my job and go full-time."
47 The Lord said, "Reach out and take it now."
48Using My Faith
49 I still remember the night that I paced the floor and
said, "In the name of Jesus, I have this money. In the
name of Jesus I reach out and take it." I began to tell
people, "Do you know what? The Lord has given me this
money." I told the lady at work, who was not even a
Christian, "God has given me this amount of money."
"as they
walked out, the
last
opportunity I
could ever
have to go
back into fulltime ministry
with the
church
organization
that had
ordained me to
the ministry
also walked
out"
50 God began to teach me to reach out to Him. I did not have a clue where it was
going to come from. But the one day the Lord sent a relative to me and placed a
burden on him as we were praying. It was a very heavy burden. Eventually he turned
to me and he said, "I do not understand what is going on, but God is telling me I have
to give you money, and that I have to give you such-and-such an amount." It was the
amount I had asked for!
51 My heart began to beat in my chest. It was exciting, but I began to grow fearful. I
thought, "Lord, I have to keep my promise now!" It took only a few weeks and I was
handed a check for the full amount. And there I was now with this amount in my hand.
I had promised the Lord, "Lord, if you pay that for me, I will give you a twenty percent
tithe instead of ten percent on this."
52 Now here I stood with the money in my hands and I said, "Lord, who do I give the
twenty percent to?"
53 The Lord said, "Go back and give it to the guy that released you in ministry, the
new pastor of the church, and give it to him for his personal ministry."
54 I arrived at his house that day, just weeks after we had told him we were leaving to
go in faith, and I came with a big envelope of money and placed it in his hands. His
eyes nearly popped out of his head. He could not believe it.
55 So we left, and I said, "Well Lord, I know I have to leave my job, but did I hear
right? Lord, I really need to know that this is what you want."
56 As we arrived home again after giving away that money we went to check our
mailbox and there was in it just one blank envelope with nothing written on it. We
opened the envelope, and it contained bank notes. To this day I do not know where
that money came
from, but the Lord said to me in no unmistakable and
uncertain terms, "See, I can provide for you, now do
what I have told you to do!"
57 I went in the next day and resigned. I told my boss,
"I am going into full-time ministry. God has called me
and I must obey." I gave twenty-four hours notice and
left the next day. That was it! And here I was asking the
Lord, "Well Father, I have left the church, I have packed
up my job. So where do I start, Lord? Do I hire a hall?
Do I advertise in the local papers? How do I start this
new ministry that you are wanting me to do?"
58The Start of Training
59 The Lord said, "What ministry?"
"we went to
check our
mailbox and
there was in it
just one blank
envelope with
nothing
written on it"
60 I said, "Lord, you told me you wanted me out there.
You told me that you want me to start something new."
61 But the Lord said, "You start by getting to know me."
62 I said, "Hang on, Lord. You told me to leave the church and pack up my job so that
I can get to know you?"
63 His reply was, "Yes. I want you to spend every day in my presence getting to know
me, because you think you know me, but you do not really know me. You have a head
full of knowledge from all your reading of books and studying. You know about me, but
you do not know me. I am going to teach you about me, and I want you to spend
every day in my presence."
64 I said, "Lord, I have to work. The Bible says, 'If any man will not work, neither let
him eat.' Lord if I am not working, how am I going to eat?"
65 He said, "You are working. I am your boss, and if your boss wants you to talk to
him all day, then that is your boss's choice. Now spend time in my presence!"
66 So I started my prophetic training just like Elijah of old did when he was called to
the Brook Cherith, where he separated himself to God and waited on the Lord alone.
Every day I was in the Word, going through it and filling myself with it, and spending
time in the presence of the Lord, praying in the Spirit.
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What Is A Prophet?
1:1 Signs of the Prophetic Calling
1:4 What is a prophet?
1:11 My Testimony
1:14 Do Prophets Still Exist?
1:19 The 'Good Old Days'
1:23 The Importance of Speaking in Tongues
CHAPTER 2
2:15 Interpreting Tongues
2:29 The Preparation of the Prophet
2:41 The Rejection of the Prophet
CHAPTER 3
3:4 Resurrection of a Vision
3:8 Submitting to Authority
3:16 The Call
3:28 Severing the Ties
3:48 Using My Faith
3:58 The Start of Training
CHAPTER 4
4:1 Tapping Into the Spirit
4:4 Spiritual Second Wind
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4:27
4:30
4:36
4:39
Prophetic Intercession
Entering the Secret Place of Fellowship
Learning to Walk in Love
Learning to Hear Correctly
Dealing with Deception
Learning to Prophesy
CHAPTER 5
The Realm Of The Spirit
5:1 Identifying Spiritual Visions
5:5 Working with Angels
5:12 Interpreting Your Tongues
5:27 Interpreting Your Dreams
5:31 Using the Word of Wisdom
5:34 Learning From Other Prophets
5:43 Prophetic Internship
5:53 Practicing the Prophetic Gifts
CHAPTER 6
Ten Signs Of The Prophetic Calling
6:1 Signs of the Prophetic Calling
6:3 Sign No 1 - A Ministry to the Church
6:6 Sign No 2 - A Unique Approach
6:8 Sign No 3 - Swinging the Pendulum
6:10 Sign No 4 - Humiliation
6:13 Sign No 5 - Singleness of Purpose
6:15 Sign No 6 - Unconscious Revelation
6:17 Sign No 7 - Allegorical Thinking
6:19 Sign No 8 - Prayer Orientation
6:21 Sign No 9 - Bringing God's Presence Through Music
6:23 Sign No 10 - Tough Experiences in Life
6:25 The Blessing of Being a Prophet
6:27 The Responsibility of Being a Prophet
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7:1 Prophetic Purpose
7:5 Why Do We Need Prophets Today?
7:8 What Qualities Are Important?
7:12 Faith, Love and Hope
7:15 First Goal: Faith, Love and Hope
7:17 What is Faith?
7:25 Faith is Based on Words
7:27 Faith Comes From a Rhema Word
7:29 Faith Has an Assurance
7:39 Producing Love
7:46 Producing Hope
CHAPTER 8
8:1 Second Goal: A Full Knowledge of the Lord
8:7 The Righteousness of God
8:10 Condemnation Does Not Produce Hope
8:16 Jesus' Inheritance in the Saints
8:24 Revelation of His Power
8:46 Every Part of the Body is Vital
CHAPTER 9
9:1 Third Goal: Preparing Believers For Ministry
9:15 Identifying Gifts and Ministries
9:39 Impartation of Gifts
9:50 Impartation Through Discipleship
9:53 Common Errors
9:54 Producing Doubt Instead of Faith
9:57 Producing Fear Instead of Love
9:60 Producing Despair Instead of Hope
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Prophetic Gifts (1)
10:4 The Gifts of the Spirit
10:12 Gifts and Manifestations
10:17 The Vocal Gifts
10:19 Diverse Tongues
10:21 Interpretation of Tongues
10:28 Prophecy
10:35 Word of Knowledge
10:41 Discerning of Spirits
10:46 Power Gifts
10:47 Gift of Faith
10:49 Gifts of Healings
10:52 Gift of Miracles
CHAPTER 11
Prophetic Gifts (2)
11:1 The Role of the Trinity in Gifts
11:9 Body Ministries
11:30 Leadership Ministries
11:34 Leadership Offices
11:41 Role of the Father
11:44 Ways of Receiving Revelation
11:46 The Mind
11:71 Sense of Hearing
11:75 Sense of Smell
11:77 Sense of Taste
11:80 Sense of Touch
11:83 Emotions
11:89 The Will
11:91 Words
11:110 Power Gifts
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Prophetic Gifts (3)
12:1 Internal and External Manifestations
12:6 From the Belly
12:13 Releasing the Anointing from Within
12:15 External Manifestations
12:17 Prophetic Use of the Gifts
12:19 Intercession
12:23 Interpretation of Tongues
12:28 Prophecy
12:38 In Counseling
CHAPTER 13
Prophetic Gifts (4)
13:1 Identifying Ministries
13:3 Warning
13:25 Impartation
13:37 Gift of Faith
13:39 Rhema Words
13:49 Gift of Healing
13:54 Essential Gifts
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14:3 The Word of the Lord
14:11 When Should a Prophet Speak?
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14:18 Only When You Have Heard From God
14:21 Only When You Are Sure
14:30 The Right Time and Place
CHAPTER 15
15:1 Even When There is Opposition
15:25 When Should a Prophet Not Speak
15:27 Use Your Urim and Thummim
15:30 Avoiding Prejudice
15:36 Waiting on Others
CHAPTER 16
16:1 What Should a Prophet Speak?
16:3 Old Testament Examples
16:20 Speaking Forth Decrees
16:23 Directive Words
16:27 Paul and Agabus
16:37 Words of Encouragement
16:39 Warning and Judgement
16:44 Always Based on the Word
16:47 The Canon of Scripture
CHAPTER 17
17:1 How Should the Prophet Speak?
17:5 In the Local Church
17:16 In Love and Not Malice
17:23 In the Power of the Spirit
17:31 In Dreams and Visions
17:35 Teaching and Preaching
17:37 Proclamation
17:39 To the World
17:42 Prediction
17:44 To the Creation
17:46 To the Enemy
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CHAPTER 18
18:1 In Actions
18:10 In Song
18:12 Prophetic Song
18:16 Warfare Song
18:21 The Word Must be Sent Forth
Chapter 4 - Practical Application
CHAPTER 4
1Tapping Into the Spirit
2
At that time I read somewhere a teaching which said that praying in
tongues is very effective and powerful and you should do it for hours
at a time. Well, I loved praying in tongues, but I had never tried
praying for an hour at a time. Wow, have you tried praying in tongues
for an hour at a time? It is difficult, let me tell you. So I began to
pray, and one day I took out my watch and said, "I am going to pray
in tongues for an hour."
3
I began, and when I had prayed for what felt like about two hours, I
checked my watch and found that it had only been ten minutes. It
was terrible! I walked the floor, and walked the floor, until I finally
came to thirty minutes and boy was I tired. I pushed on, and the
more I prayed in tongues the more difficult it
became. It became so difficult that it felt like
I was grinding through solid rock. It was like
trying to run uphill. It was exhausting.
4Spiritual Second Wind
5
But suddenly it was like popping the cork!
It was like I had reached the top of the hill,
and now I was running downhill. Something
began to burst out of me, and began to flow
out of me. It began to pour out of me like a
fountain. I began to pray faster, and it
poured more. I kept on praying because I
could not stop. Then when I checked my
watch I had gone an hour and fifteen
minutes already. I said, "Lord what is going
on?"
6
"I had prayed
for what felt
like about two
hours, I
checked my
watch and
found that it
had only been
ten minutes"
He said, "Have you ever heard about second wind?"
7
"Yes, I've heard them talk about that. That is when a runner
reaches a point of exhaustion and suddenly something kicks in where
he gets a new burst of energy."
8
The Lord said, "You just experienced a spiritual second wind!"
9
After that I began to pray more in tongues, and as I did so pictures
started to surface in my mind. It felt like there was a river flowing out
of me. I had experienced the anointing of God before, but never in
that way. There was a river flowing out of me. It just would not stop.
It was pouring. It was wonderful.
10
The next day when I came to pray I thought, "I am going to do
that again." So I took out my watch and I began to pray, and this
time I had not prayed for five minutes when the river started to flow.
I did not have to go an hour anymore. Something had happened
inside of me. I had built a new release somehow. And every day
thereafter I prayed in the morning, I prayed at lunchtime, and I
prayed in the evening. I had three big prayer meetings every day. In
fact I grew so used to praying for an hour that I would go and visit
with folks and we would have a little prayer meeting, and I would
pray for twenty minutes just to warm up! Everybody would be sitting
there and saying, "I wish he would shut up now!" It flowed. It was
wonderful. The glory just poured out.
11Prophetic Intercession
12
My wife grew so jealous she said, "Hey, I have to do this too." So
she sat down and did the hour thing too. It was heavy for her but she
also had a breakthrough, and we both started to flow together in the
Spirit. God began to show us things to pray for, and He started
bringing people to our minds from all over the country for whom we
could pray and intercede. People whom we had not thought about for
years would come to our mind as we began to pray, and we would
speak forth in prayer. Soon we began to hear reports of how God was
starting to do things in answer to our prayers.
13 It became so powerful that eventually as I began to pray and wait
on the Lord, if somebody popped into my mind as I prayed, I would
phone the person up afterwards and say, "God told me to pray for
you. Get ready, the answer is coming." Their responses were varied
but usually unenthusiastic.
14
"Yes, well... I'm glad you prayed for me..."
15
I would say, "No, no. Listen, I did not just pray for you. God told
me to pray for you, and when God tells me to pray for you and I pray
He always answers. Get ready for an answer!"
16
I think a lot of people looked at me and thought, "Do you think you
are something special or what? What makes your prayers so
special?" But you know what? God began to answer. He began to
answer in miraculous ways. We became so excited about it that we
started to make up a list of everybody we knew. This was powerful
stuff! We figured if we
could make a list of everybody we knew and
begin to pray for them that way, God would
begin to bless.
17
The first day we tried it, it stopped. It
died! The anointing disappeared completely,
and God began to teach me back then
already that the power of intercession does
not lie in bringing requests to the Lord, but it
lies in coming to the Lord and saying, "Okay,
Father, you show me who to pray for." God
would show us who to pray for, and we
would pray. And He would show each of us
individually different people, all on our own.
She would be praying for one person and I
would be praying for somebody else, and
God would meet those needs. But we had to
let God lead us in our prayers. We did not
know it then, but God was beginning to show
the elements of the Prophetic Ministry, the
authority, in intercessory prayer, to release
His blessing into the earth.
"He began to
answer in
miraculous
ways. We
became so
excited about
it that we
started to
make up a list
of everybody
we knew."
18Entering the Secret Place of Fellowship
19
So as God led me to come into the secret place, the Lord Jesus
appeared to me one night in vision. I have shared this in many other
places, so I am not going to go into detail here. But one night as I
stood there in prayer He stood before me, and His love radiated forth.
As I stood there in His presence I said, "Lord, I am concerned about
everybody whose hearts have grown cold and they do not serve you
anymore."
20
He looked at me and He said, "Les, do you think that I love them
any less than I love you?" He showed me His love.
21
I began to understand Abba Father. For the first time in my life I
began to understand 1 Corinthians 13. He began to show me His love,
His unconditional, uncondemning love. And so I began to spend time
in His presence, praying in tongues for hours at a time, worshiping
Him, singing in tongues, just spending time in His presence. He
became so real to me that He was as tangible as any living person
that I could see with my eyes. Eventually it came to where I could not
wait to be alone, just to be with Him. It was so wonderful in His
presence. I remember one day saying, "Lord, if I could be in a bare
room with four walls and sitting on the floor, just having you there
with me would satisfy me." It was the most wonderful experience. We
would have times of sharing together. I would ask Him questions and
He would answer them.
22
There were times when we would come together and fellowship
and He would say, "I have a surprise for you." He would reach behind
His back, and pull out a gift for me and say, "I want to give you this
to show you that I love you, because you are special to me." It was
wonderful. The Lord Jesus became so real to me that all I needed to
do was to be alone and close my eyes and He was there.
23
I began to hear His voice in a way that I had never heard it before.
He became so real to me that when I prayed with people and
ministered to them I would not need to say, "I need a word of
prophecy now for this person." I would not have to say, "Give me a
word of knowledge, Lord," or "Father give me a word of wisdom for
this person." I would simply say, "Lord, tell me about this person,"
and He would tell me. I would say, "Lord, what about that?" and He
would tell me. He would speak to me.
24
He quickened to my memory and reminded me of the passage of
Scripture that spoke concerning Moses. God said, "If there is a
prophet among you I will reveal myself to him in a vision or in a
dream, by the Word of the Lord." But He said, "Not so with my
servant Moses. With Him I speak face to face, and mouth to mouth."
25
I said, "Lord, I want that kind of relationship with you. I want to
continue talking with you face to face."
26
And He said, "You will, because I am calling you to be a Moses."
27Learning to Walk in Love
28
Oh, that beautiful relationship with the Lord! That oneness of
walking in His love, and knowing His uncondemning love to the point
that at times even when I failed Him and was too afraid to come back
into His presence again, He was standing there in love saying, "I do
not condemn you. I understand why you sinned. Now let me show
you why you sinned.
Let me show you how to prevent that from
happening again. Let me teach you and
instruct you." And He would put His arms of
love around me and help me out of it.
29
It was uncondemning love. The Lord was
teaching me that a prophet of God must be
somebody who walks in union with Him in
the Spirit, is filled with His love and
understanding, and has a heart that is free
of condemnation. I always had this picture in
my mind that the prophet would stand up
and denounce sin and condemn saying,
"Thus saith the Lord... "
"He was
standing there
in love saying,
"I do not
condemn you.
I understand
why you
sinned."
30Learning to Hear Correctly
31
I learned a very difficult lesson. During that time of training the
Lord spoke to me and gave me a word for someone I knew. He said,
"Go tell him that I have called him and he needs to move into what I
have called him to."
32
I said, "Father, he is not going to listen to me. He will never hear
me." I was afraid. I thought I heard the Lord say, "You go and tell
him that if he will not hear you he is going to lose his business." Well
that made sense. Prophets did those sort of things didn't they? They
spoke judgement if people rejected the Word of the Lord.
33
I remember the night I went to share this, and as you can imagine
it was rejected. He had no regard for me whatsoever. He rejected
everything I said. So I said, "God said He is going to take away your
business!"
34
I walked out of there, and do you know what happened? There
came a time when I had to go and ask that man for a job. He did not
lose his business. I missed it badly.
35
Do not think that if you are going to go through the training of a
prophet that you can always hear the voice of God right, not even if
you are walking in that close fellowship with the Lord. The Lord had to
teach me that it was not my ability to hear His voice and His Word
and to speak it forth. He taught me that He had chosen me, that He
had called me, and that it was His divine ability moving upon me. It
was Him getting through to me and giving me His Word, and giving
me the opportunity to go and speak forth His Word.
36Dealing with Deception
37
I had to learn that I would fall into deception at times. Sometimes I
did erratic things that I thought the Holy Spirit was leading me to do,
and I made a fool of myself, and afterwards I realized that I had
missed it. It was part of my prophetic training. I needed to learn how
to do that without giving up and becoming discouraged.
38
I spent time in the presence of the Lord for nine months in total
and I began to learn how to minister in the gifts. I told Him, "Lord, I
have never really had that much courage to prophesy over people. I
do not have the courage to speak out loud in front of others. But, I
guess I am going to have to do it now. I know that is what you are
calling me to do."
39Learning to Prophesy
40
So I began to walk up and down in my room practising. How would
it sound if I were to prophesy? Well most people that I heard who
gave good prophecies always used King James English, so it would
have to go something like, "Thus saith the Lord, 'Behold I am...' "
That sounded pretty good. So I began to try it. Now if I were to
prophesy over me what would I say?
41
"Thus saith the Lord, 'Les, behold I have called you. And I shall
provide your needs. And I shall lead you, and I shall open the way
before you and...' " Hey, what is going on here? I began to feel the
anointing. The words began to flow. They started to come out. But I
did not plan to say all that. I was just practising.
42
I began to practise some more. "Behold says the Lord, I have
called you and I have chosen you, and I know the end from the
beginning. And yea I will never leave you nor forsake you. And
behold, you shall obey me, and you shall follow this new door that I
place before you. And yea you shall walk through that door. And as
you walk through the door my light and my glory shall shine upon
you and..."
43
Wow, that was pretty powerful stuff! I had never done that before.
There was nobody there to say, "You are talking rubbish. You missed
it. You are making all that up." There was nobody there to tell me
because it was Les prophesying over Les. I found that I would start to
speak words knowing that I was making them up. I could hear it and
I could feel it.
But there were certain words that I would speak that would go,
"Yeah, yeah!" and I would know that they were from God.
44
I found that speaking a prophetic word was like walking along a
path. God gives you the goal to aim for and you start heading for it,
but you stumble off the path every now and then. Then you get back
on again and then you stumble off, but you are headed in the right
direction. I found that I could feel when I
was beginning to stumble off the path
because the anointing would wane, and I
would get back onto it again and the
anointing would return.
"I found that I
would start to
speak words
knowing that I
was making
them up."
Chapter 5 - The Realm Of The Spirit
CHAPTER 5
The Realm of The Spirit
1Identifying Spiritual Visions
2
So I learned to exercise the gifts. As I began to pray in the Spirit I
started to see pictures in my mind. I had prayed for years for visions.
I would hear about folks who would have wonderful visions where
they would see beautiful things. So I said, "Oh Lord, give me a vision.
Please Lord, give me a vision." I discovered one day that I had been
seeing visions for years.
3
I read how Peter went into a trance and how he saw a blanket
coming down and being held full of the animals. I said, "Lord, I have
never had one of those."
4
But the Lord said, "You are not meant to have one of those. Learn
to recognize the pictures that I put in your heart."
5Working with Angels
6
About that time I began to have experiences with angels. I heard a
lot about angels, and I remember reading a book called 'Angels on
Assignment' put out by Charles and Francis Hunter, quoting Pastor
Buck who had visions of the Angel Gabriel and various others. I had a
closer look at all this and I read other accounts about guardian
angels, and how some people had seen their guardian angel. My
prayer became, "Oh Lord, I would love to see my guardian angel. Can
you show him to me?" I began to look to the Lord, trusting that
somehow He would let me see angels in the Spirit.
7
Then one night as I was lying in my bed I became aware of a
presence in the room. It seemed to me that somebody was standing
at the end of my bed. I could not make the shape out but I could
sense that there was somebody there. I said, "Oh Lord, are you
beginning to show me my angel now?" But suddenly I went cold. My
flesh began to crawl and my hair stood up on end. I cried, "No, Lord,
something is wrong here!"
8
The Lord said, "Do not open your heart to
deception. It is a lie! It is an angel of
darkness coming to confuse you and lead
you astray." The Lord said, "Do not look for
angels. Do not look for revelations. Do not
try to obtain these things on demand. I will
give them to you when it is time for you to
see them, but do not ask for them on
demand."
9
I took authority over that thing and told it
to leave in the name of Jesus and it left
immediately. After that I stopped asking God
to show me what my angel looked like.
"My prayer
became, "Oh
Lord, I would
love to see my
guardian
angel."
10
In His time God began to show me angels in the Spirit and I
entered into being able to see angels and demons. He even showed
me what my guardian angel looked like, so I have seen my guardian
angel and also many other angels, including evil powers. There is a
special angel that the Bible calls the Angel of the Lord, and when he
appears he brings the magnificence and the glory and the power of
God. The air becomes so charged with God's power that I want to fall
to my knees, but I am too afraid to look. I do not want to go
anywhere near where he is standing. He comes on very special
occasions where God is about to do something very momentous.
11
I began to experience all of these things in the Spirit and I began
to prophesy over myself. But I said, "Lord, I need to interpret
tongues as well. I read in the Bible where Paul said, "If any man pray
in an unknown tongue, let him pray that he also interpret." I said,
"Lord, I do not know if I misunderstand that, but to me it sounds like
if I pray in tongues I should be able to interpret my own tongues."
12Interpreting Your Tongues
13
I remember hearing a lady tell me once, "You know, in my private
prayer time I pray in tongues and then I interpret my own tongues."
14
I thought, "Fanatic! She's deceived, overemotional, getting carried
away."
15
But the Lord was saying to me, "I want you to do that."
16
I said, "But Lord, that's a flaky thing. I mean, folks getting their
own revelations? The Bible says that the gifts are given for the
building up of the Body. If you are going to reveal something to me,
surely it is for somebody else?"
17
The Lord said, "Are you not part of the Body?"
18
So I tried it. I prayed in tongues then interpreted, "Behold says the
Lord, I am with you to lead you along the way." I thought, "Hey, that
sounds pretty good." I prayed more tongues. "And you shall not be
afraid, but you shall do exactly what I tell you to do, says the Lord.
And I will take you by the hand and I will show you exactly which way
to go."
19
Did I make that up? I do not have a clue, but I just began to do it.
I began to pray in tongues and then pray in English whatever came to
my mind.
20
Eventually it came to the place where I found that I would always
pray in tongues when I was alone and then sometimes I would pray
in English. I remembered an incident once from our family prayer
meeting, where I prayed in tongues and somebody else then prayed
in English. My late Dad who often understood my tongues in the
Spirit, started to laugh and he said, "Do you know what? He just
prayed in English what you prayed in tongues."
21
I began to realize that sometimes we are interpreting without even
being aware of it, because when you pray in the Spirit, you are
praying what the Spirit has inspired you. And
when you pray in the Spirit in the natural language you are still
praying what the Spirit has inspired you. I found that I could now
pray in tongues and pray in English. And I understood what Paul was
saying. He said, "I will pray with my spirit and I will pray with my
understanding. I will sing with my spirit and I will sing with my
understanding."
22
I began to realize that a lot of the time
after I would pray in tongues for a while and
then I began to pray in English, I did not
know it but I was actually praying in English
what I had just prayed in tongues. Do you
know how many believers are doing that
without actually being aware of it? But I
began to develop it specifically.
23
I remembered how Paul said, "If you
come into a public meeting and you pray in
tongues, how can anybody understand
unless you interpret?" I began to realize
that in a public meeting if the Holy Spirit
inspires me to pray, then I must afterwards
pray in English what I just prayed in
tongues.
"I began to
realize that
sometimes we
are
interpreting
without even
being aware of
it"
24
You say, "But I thought the gift of interpretation was for when
there is a message in tongues."
25
A message in tongues? What is a message in tongues? Where does
the Bible call that a message in tongues? That is 'Pentecostalese' like the baptism in the Holy Spirit with the scriptural evidence of
speaking in tongues. It sounds good. There is plenty of evidence for
it, but it is not chapter and verse. "If any of you pray in an unknown
tongue let him pray also that he interprets."
26
There should be interpretation of tongues when tongues are
spoken in a public meeting. And if God should have given a word of
wisdom in that utterance, then the interpretation will come in that
form. But if the person has simply prayed a prayer of intercession in
tongues, then the interpretation should be the same thing. But we do
not do it, because we have never practised it in our private prayer
time?
27Interpreting Your Dreams
28
I learned in my private prayer time how to interpret my own
tongues. Then one day I picked up a book by Catherine Marshall. She
was one of the early charismatic writers, a tremendous teacher. And
in it she had a chapter on dreams called 'The Language of the Spirit'
or 'The Forgotten Language.' In this book she was speaking about
actually taking your dreams and interpreting them prophetically and
spiritually as a message from God.
29
I said, "What! I know they did that in the Bible, but those were in
the old days. Surely you cannot do things like that in modern days interpret and translate your dream as a message from God? You
should hear some of my dreams! I would like to hear somebody
interpret them."
30
God began to show me things that I had never heard of before.
Today dream interpretation has become so common. We have
message boards on the Internet where people are posting their
dreams for prophets to interpret. God taught me, by myself in the
Spirit how to understand, and then afterwards I began to read how
others were doing it.
31Using the Word of Wisdom
32
God started to teach me all of these things alone in His presence,
and I began to practice them and experience them. A lot of the time I
did not even know what I was doing. Often I would be sharing with
somebody, and I would say, "Do you know this is going to happen?
Pretty soon you are going to see this is going to take place in your
life,
and things will fall into place."
33
Afterwards I would think, "Now why did I
say that? Where did that come from? It was
not an utterance, it just came out
spontaneously." And yet I felt that urge in
my spirit. I remember saying to someone
once, "You know, I feel like one of those Old
Testament prophets. It is absurd, but I kind
of feel like one of those Old Testament
prophets giving people messages from the
Lord."
"Often I would
be sharing
with
somebody, and
I would say,
"Do you know
34Learning From Other Prophets
this is going to
happen?"
35
Then one night the Lord led me to attend
a church that I had not been to for a long
time. The preacher that night was a young man with longish hair who
sang and played the piano a lot. He stood up and began to do things
that I had never seen before. He was a young man by the name of
Kim Clement, who is now a prophet of God who functions
internationally.
36
I sat there and looked at him, and I nudged my wife and said,
"Hey, that is what I have been doing. That is what I have been doing!
Do you see what he is doing? That is what I have been doing! Do you
know what this means? I think I must be a prophet." Wow! I went
home that night and my spirit was singing. I thought, "Lord, so that is
what this has all been about. That is what all this training and all this
setting aside to spend time in your presence was about. Lord now I
understand."
37
I only knew that He had taught me to come alone and be with Him
in the Spirit and to learn directly from Him. He taught me these
things by His Spirit, and He taught me them in His Word. Suddenly I
realized that I was not the only one who was being trained for this
type of ministry. There were other people out there that God had also
raised up. Now I look back in retrospect and I am beginning to
understand why so many people are moving in a Prophetic Ministry
and do not even know it, until somebody comes to them and says,
"Do you know you are a prophet?"
38
"A prophet? What do you mean?"
39
"I can see all the signs. Tell me, have you been through rejection?
Have you been through a tough time? Have you had things go wrong
in your life and had financial problems? Have you had everything
going against you? Have people rejected you? Have you been on your
own? You can't fit in with the rest of the church?"
40
"How did you know?"
41 "I have been there and done that."
42
God trains His prophets in secret. He trains them alone, out of the
public eye. And a lot of the time they do not even know they are
being trained, or what they are being prepared for. At last I saw what
it was that God had trained and prepared me for. I began to
understand what a prophet is and what a prophet does.
43Prophetic Internship
44
Then the Lord said, "Now is your opportunity to go out and to
practice it."
45
I do not know why the Lord does this, but He seldom lets you
practice where you are. You usually have to go somewhere else. So
moving time came up again and we had to
pack up and sell everything and move a
great distance away to the coast, way down
to the bottom of the country, to a place that
I would never have gone to except to visit on
holiday.
46Learning to Remain in the Background
47
There the Lord took me, and He put me in
a church that was on fire, that was moving
for God, and where there was the anointing
of the Spirit of God. And the Lord said, "Go
and join in that church."
"He seldom
lets you
practice where
you are. You
usually have to
go somewhere
else."
48
I said, "Great Lord, at last I'm beginning
to become involved in some kind of ministry.
But I thought you wanted me to start something?"
49
He said, "Not yet. Go and join the church and tell the pastor that
although you have experience in ministry you are not going to do
anything."
50 "Oh thanks, Lord. You have prepared me for all this time, now you
tell me to go and sit in the church and not to do anything!"
51
He said, "That's right. I want you to go and sit there because your
training is not finished." He said, "I am placing you in that church,
because it is one that hosts every special traveling speaker from all
over the world who comes through this city." He said, "I have called
you to be a General, and I want you to learn from the qualified
Generals. I want you to sit there and listen, and watch and assess,
and see how they work."
52
You see, God had called me to be more than a prophet. And so He
put me through my next phase of training beginning already, but at
the same time He now gave me the opportunity to move forth and to
learn all that I had been practising all that time, ministering just to
myself. Eventually I began ministering to some of the folks that I met
and some of my family.
53Practicing the Prophetic Gifts
54
Now the Lord put me in a situation where I began to share with
people in little home churches and little groups in different places.
God put me in those groups and I began to minister as a prophet. I
did not plan to, but I could not stop it, it just came out. I remember
the day that the folks who were running a home church said, "We
want you to come with us today to a special meeting out on one of
the farms, where some folks come together to meet. We would like
you to come and be the guest speaker for us, please."
55
That was wonderful. I could preach, I could teach, that was not a
problem. They gathered this little group of people and I stood up and
preached. Then they said, "Brother Les is a prophet. If anybody wants
a prophetic word, come up and let him pray for you!"
56
"Oh Lord, no please. Do not do this to me."
57
I had no choice. They came up one at a time and I had to pray with
them. I reached forth in faith and weakness and God gave me a word
for each one of them. I shared with each one what I sensed in the
Spirit and what God showed me. When we climbed in the car to go
home I was glad that I was not going back there because I was sure
that I had made an absolute fool of myself. But they said to me, "You
do not know how exact you were, because we know these people and
we know their needs. For each person you ministered to, you spoke
exactly where their need was. You gave them exactly what they
needed. You truly are a prophet!"
58
Then they said, "We would like you to pray for our daughter. She
has just come back from some other place and we would like you to
minister to her."
59
"Oh, okay."
60
So I prayed for her and I began to prophesy. What a strange
prophecy it was. I began to move in one direction, and then suddenly
I would switch in another direction. Then I found myself going off at a
tangent and I thought, "Lord, I hope I'm not making all this up. This
is strange." I would be telling her what she had been thinking and
doing and what God was going to do.
61
When it was finished I stood there in fear and trepidation, and she
turned to me and said, "You know, it is really funny. As you were
prophesying over me I kept asking the Lord questions in my mind and
you kept answering them."
62
People began to invite me to come and preach in special meetings.
There were Christian
camps and a Christian guest farm there that
I was invited to preach at. God began to
bless, and the anointing of God began to
come down. At one meeting somebody came
up to my wife afterwards and said, "Do you
know that your husband is the person that
we have been praying for - that God would
send somebody here to bring revival to the
city?"
63
Wow, my ministry flourished. At last, what
I had learned in private began to become
public, and the Body recognized it and
received it. I began to minister forth in that
prophetic anointing. I went through my
"As you were
prophesying
over me I kept
asking the
Lord questions
in my mind
and you kept
answering
practical internship and God gave me the
chance to practise particularly, the principles
that I had learned alone. It was wonderful.
"Oh Lord," I said, "these people accept me.
Oh Lord, it is wonderful. They understand. I have found people at last
who have the same vision, the same heart as me. They understand
and they accept me. Oh Father, let me just stay and rise up here. Let
me get involved and just give all that I have here."
them."
64
It would have been wonderful. I could have stopped right there.
And I daresay if God had called me to be just that, it could have been
the culmination of my training. I could have come to manifestation in
the Body to minister forth the gifts that He had given me. But for me,
unfortunately, it was not the end because God had called me to a
higher office. He had told me originally, "I want you out there." He
had said, "I am calling you to be an apostle." I would have been
through with my prophetic training and the hell that it was. So I
cried, "Oh Lord, can we not just stop right here?"
65
He said, "No, next phase! Now we start all over again, but this time
it gets worse!"
66
That is another story. I am not sharing on the Apostolic Ministry
here. God took me through those phases, those stages of training.
And I want to tell you that when God calls you to the Prophetic
Ministry He calls you to a death. This is covered in detail in the
chapter on the Prophetic Preparation. God will call you to a death and
things will start to go wrong in your life, and all of the symptoms and
evidences will be there.
67
There may be people along the way that God will bring to teach
you and train you, but as a prophet you will go through a training
experience that is different to any other. God will teach you and show
you things, and you are going to enter into areas in the spiritual
realm that you have never been in before. You will get to know the
voice of God in ways that you have never heard it before. God is
going to lead you, teach you and train you.
Chapter 6 - 10 Signs Of The Prophetic Calling
CHAPTER 6
Ten Signs of The Prophetic Calling
1Signs of the Prophetic Calling
2
In conclusion I want to show you the signs of the prophetic call. As I
have shared some of my experiences above you are probably shaking
your head and saying, "Yes, I identify, been there, done that. I
understand. Yes, I know what he's talking about. Yes, that has
happened to me as well." Well, then you have been identifying with
the prophetic calling. You have been identifying with the way God
prepares His prophets. But here are a few signs to look out for.
3Sign No 1 - A Ministry to the Church
4
Firstly, if God has called you to be a prophet, you have a burning
desire in your heart to see the Body of Christ move into what God has
for them. The Scripture says that God has called the fivefold ministry
to equip the saints for the work of the ministry, to bring them to the
unity of the faith, and to bring them to the place where Jesus can
present it to Himself, a spotless bride without spot or wrinkle.
5
Is that what is burning in your heart? Do you desire God's people to
move into the place He has for them? Do you want to see the church
move into a place of perfection, to a place of maturity, to a place of
dedication and commitment to God? Do you want to see the Body of
Christ come to that place where the Lord wants them to fellowship
with Him and to walk in the light with Him? If that is burning in your
heart, the chances are that God has given you a prophetic call.
6Sign No 2 - A Unique Approach
7
Perhaps God has given you some kind of unique approaches in
ministry and you are a bit radical. You might be accused at times of
rocking the boat. You are accused at times of being out of order. "We
do not do it that way in this church, brother. Just keep your voice
down. Just mind your P's and Q's here, please. That is not the way we
do things here." There is a good chance you
are a prophet.
8Sign No 3 - Swinging the Pendulum
9
If you are extreme and you go from one
end of the pendulum to the other. If your
emotions and your feelings swing. If at times
it looks as though you are going into
deception and you keep missing it badly,
then you come back again and you seem to
be unstable, it does not mean that you are
being deceived. It does not necessarily mean
that you are just some flaky character who
thinks he is called. The chances are you are
going through the turmoil of the preparation
of being a prophet of God.
"You might be
accused at
times of
rocking the
boat. You are
accused at
times of being
out of order."
10Sign No 4 - Humiliation
11
If God has called you to be a prophet, you are going to go through
the pressure of becoming a servant. I remember what it was like
when I did my military service, how they treated us and berated us.
They made us feel so low. I said to somebody one day that if I was to
be treated as one of the lowest class servants of the time in that
country, it would be a promotion! I said, "I would love to be one of
them right now." When God has called you to be a prophet you are
going through worse than basic military training let me tell you. You
will be crunched and brought low, and you will have to learn a spirit
of servanthood. You will need to realize that you are going to have to
die to self, and you are going to be humbled.
12
If God has given you the heart to do that and if He has given you
the heart to be able to give up all and to humble yourself and be
nothing for the sake of the Body of Christ, the kingdom of God, and
the call of God. If you are prepared to make that kind of commitment,
then perhaps you have what it takes to become a prophet.
13Sign No 5 - Singleness of Purpose
14
You find yourself moving in one direction all the time where it
seems that people are being involved in all sorts of different types of
ministries, but you keep getting channeled in this one direction all the
time. There is a constraining force and you cannot move away from
it. If this happens, it could be a sign that the Lord has called you to
move into that narrow road that is the ministry of a prophet.
15Sign No 6 - Unconscious Revelation
16
If at times you are ministering to people without even realizing it;
if you are speaking forth words of comfort and edification and
exhortation and giving people direction and instruction, and
afterwards you think, "What made me say that to them?" Or people
sometimes say, "Do you know the other day we were talking and you
told me that I should
do this or that, and you felt this or that was
going to happen, you were perfectly
correct?" You rack your brain and you think,
"I do not remember telling them that." It
could be you are a prophet in the making
without even knowing it.
17Sign No 7 - Allegorical Thinking
18
"and
afterwards you
think, "What
made me say
that to them?"
You tend to think in pictures and
allegories and see things very symbolically.
If you are a kind of visionary, and you find at
times that you think more in pictures, there is a good chance that you
have an orientation towards the Prophetic Ministry.
19Sign No 8 - Prayer Orientation
20
You find yourself spending long times in prayer and travailing and
groaning before the Lord and in intercession. You might be concerned
about the nations. You are likely concerned about the Body of Christ.
Things burn in you with a passion and burden to pray for needs. It
could be that God has placed within you an orientation towards the
Prophetic Ministry.
21Sign No 9 - Bringing God's Presence Through Music
22
If you have the ability to come into the presence of the Lord using
music and when you stand up to either play an instrument or to
praise and worship the Lord, something begins to happen in the
Spirit. If people come to you afterwards and they say, "Do you know
what? When you are leading the praise group, the anointing of God
seems to come into the meeting. Do you know, when you are playing
in the band there seems to be a special presence of the Lord?" It is
likely that you have a prophetic calling. Prophets have a very special
ability to release the presence of God into a meeting, and they tend
to have an orientation towards doing that musically in praise and
worship.
23Sign No 10 - Tough Experiences in Life
24
And of course the most obvious one. If you have had a life where
everything that can go wrong went wrong. If people have opposed
you and rejected you; if your whole life has been one of turmoil and
trouble, especially from the time God called you. If you have had a lot
of opposition, and a lot of things have gone wrong, the chances are
you were geared for the Prophetic Ministry from a very young age or
even from birth.
25The Blessing of Being a Prophet
26
The life of a prophet is a very difficult one. It takes tremendous
training and it is extremely strenuous. But oh what a blessing to
come into the presence of the Lord. What a blessing to hear His voice
and be able to sense His power. What a blessing to be able to come
into a meeting and to release the power and the glory of the Lord into
the lives of others. What a blessing to be able to pray with somebody
and say, "Thus says the Lord... this is God's purpose, this is what God
is going to do, and I am releasing it in you now. I am setting you free
to go forth in the name of the Lord."
27The Responsibility of Being a Prophet
28
What a blessing, but what an awesome responsibility to be God's
spokesman, to be His agency in the earth. The Scripture says, "The
Lord God does nothing except He reveal His secrets to His servants
the prophets." If you are to be a prophet you will have to learn about
secrets, and you will have to learn in secret how to hear His voice.
You will have to learn in the secret place. You are going to have to
learn, hidden away from the world
where nobody can see you. You are going to
have to learn in a place that nobody else is
prepared to go. You will know what it is to
be separated unto the Lord and to Him
alone, and to be dedicated completely to His
work.
29
"If you are to
be a prophet
you will have
to learn about
secrets"
You will have to learn that when the Lord
says, "Speak My words," you must respond
with, "Yes Lord I will speak what you tell me
to speak." And when God tells you to go to a
particular person and say, "Thus says the
Lord... " you are prepared to do it. You are
going to speak forth and you will bring His Body to a place where they
know what God's purpose is, where they can move into the place that
He wants them to be.
30
What an awesome responsibility, but oh what an exciting
opportunity to be God's prophet. And in the end you will find that the
benefits far outweigh the price and the penalties, and all the dealings
and hard times that you went through, as God begins to lift you up. I
remember how it thrilled my heart when that lady came up to my
wife and said, "We believe that your husband is the answer to our
prayer?"
31
When somebody says to you, "Do you know that you were so
exactly on target with what you said and what you spoke over me?
Do you know I have been looking to the Lord for an answer, and you
spoke those words?" Oh, what a blessing. What a thrill when you
have spoken and known that it was not your words, but it was the
words of the Lord that you spoke forth in power and in faith. And as
you spoke it you saw God move. It is a wonderful ministry that God
has called us to as His prophets. Let us appreciate it, let us
understand it, and let us be faithful in what He has called us to do.
Chapter 7 - Prophetic Purpose - Section 1
CHAPTER 7
Prophetic Purpose - Section 1
1Prophetic Purpose
2
Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and
love to all the saints, did not cease to give thanks for you, making
mention of you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and
revelation in the knowledge of Him; the eyes of your understanding
being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of His calling;
3
And what is the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints;
and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who
believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He
wrought in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and set Him at
His own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality
and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named,
not only in this world but also in that which is to come.
4
And has put all things under His feet and gave Him to be the head
over all things to the church which is His body, the fullness of Him
that fills all in all. Ephesians 1:15-23
5Why Do We Need Prophets Today?
6
Why do we still need prophets today? Surely now that we have the
Word of God we do not need a prophet to tell us what God wants? He
has put it all in His Word. And every believer has the Holy Spirit living
inside him or her, so we are able to hear from God for
ourselves from the Spirit. Why do we need a prophet to tell us what
God is saying? And besides, prophets are often wrong. We could be
led astray by a false prophet.
7
These are the kinds of questions people ask, not only amongst
unbelievers and amongst believers who don't believe in the gifts, and
amongst believers who don't believe in the five-fold ministry, but
even amongst many churches that are
moving with the Spirit of God. There is so
often still doubt as to why exactly the
prophetic ministry is there. Why are there
prophets in the church? And then when we
can acknowledge that prophets should be
there, we begin to ask ourselves, "What kind
of results should a prophet be getting?"
when he or she speaks forth a prophetic
word. What is the purpose and reason for
the prophet speaking a prophetic word?
What is meant to be accomplished by it?
What is the main purpose for the prophetic
ministry? That is what I want to speak on
here - prophetic purpose.
"Surely now
that we have
the Word of
God we do not
need a prophet
to tell us what
God wants?"
8What Qualities Are Important?
9
We read Paul's epistles that he wrote to the churches that he had
founded and was exercising apostolic oversight of. Paul had many
concerns, and in various churches there were different kinds of
concerns. In the Corinthian church, I think everything that could go
wrong went wrong. Everything that could be done wrong they did
wrong. So Corinthians actually teaches us quite a lot, because Paul
had to correct them in just about everything.
10
Then you have the churches like the Galatians who had gone and
were getting back into the law again. And you have the Colossians
who were getting off into some other heresy and worshipping of
angels and getting into voluntary humiliation and asceticism. Each
one of these churches had different kinds of problems. But Paul had
one goal, one set of goals, one yardstick that he used for every one of
the churches. You will see again and again that when he writes to the
churches, he is not looking for doctrinal correctness. So although he
has corrected so many of these doctrinal errors in the various
churches, there are a set of things that Paul wanted to see in every
church, and until he saw those things in those churches he was not
satisfied.
11
What were they? We saw it in the passage that we read at the
beginning. Paul was writing to the church at Ephesus, which was one
of the best, one of the ones he did not have much correction to do.
What was wrong with the church at Ephesus apart from the fact that
John later said that they had left their first love? At the time Paul
wrote to them they were in first love. They were a church on fire.
They were a church according to God's pattern. There was nothing
wrong with them. You cannot fault them. What would Paul see
wrong? What did he condemn? What did he criticize in the church at
Ephesus? Can you find something?
12Faith, Love and Hope
13
I find it in the passage that we just read. Paul looked for these
qualities in the churches. He looked for faith, he looked for love, he
looked for hope. And he looked for a church that understood and
knew the Lord in an intimate way. Those were the only things that he
was concerned about. If they did not have those he would say
something about it. As he writes to the church at Ephesus he says, "I
thank the Lord. I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and of
your love to all the saints. It is great guys. You are moving in faith,
and you are full of love. It is wonderful. I'm thrilled. But, I don't see
in you the right amount of hope."
14
So he begins to pray. He says, "I pray that God is going to give
you a spirit of wisdom and revelation, that you may understand the
hope of his calling. You guys are lacking something. You have faith,
you have love, but you don't have hope." Paul always wanted to see
faith, love and hope. Why? Because God always wants to see faith,
love and hope. Faith, hope and love are the three spiritual forces. We
have dealt with it elsewhere. They are the forces of the recreated
spirit. They are what God produces in people. They are the root of
solutions to every problem in the spiritual life. They are the roots of
the tree of the Spirit from which everything stems. If those three are
not there, then spiritual maturity is not possible. That is why Paul was
concerned about faith and love and hope.
15First Goal: Faith, Love and Hope
16
What is the goal of the prophet? The goal of the prophet is to bring
the body of Christ to a place of maturity. How will we know when the
body of Christ is in a place of maturity? They are going to have faith,
love and hope. If you are a prophet of God you are meant to
be bringing the church to a condition of faith,
love and hope. That is your prime goal in
your ministry. Secondly, the goal of the
prophetic ministry is to bring believers to a
full knowledge of the Lord. Thirdly, the goal
of the prophet is to help prepare believers
for the ministry that God has called them to
do. We are going to look at those in detail as
we continue.
17What is Faith?
"The goal of
the prophet is
to bring the
body of Christ
to a place of
maturity."
18
Faith, love and hope - that is what we are
meant to be producing in people. What is
faith? We have covered it extensively elsewhere. Let's just review
some basic principles. Romans 10:17 says:
19
Romans 10:17 So then faith [comes] by hearing, and hearing by
the [rhema] word of God. (GMR)
20 How is faith produced? Faith is produced when there is a
revelation. Faith requires a revelation. Faith requires knowing. Well
how do I know that? If you go to Hebrews 11, which is the faith
chapter of the Bible where we find the list of all the Old Testament
heroes of faith, you will find that every one of these people who
became classed as heroes of faith had a revelation from God. "By
faith Noah, having been revealed by God that He was going to
destroy the earth and that he should make an ark ..." He went and
made the ark. "By faith Abraham, having been told by God to go forth
into another land ..." He obtained a revelation. He received a Word
from God. Every single one of the heroes of faith received a Word
from God. Even old Gideon, where the Lord sends an angel and says,
"God is with you Gideon. You mighty man of valor." He is hiding
away, but God gives him a Word.
21
"You're going to be a mighty man of valor."
22
"Who me?"
23
"Yes you."
24
A Word from the Lord took a coward and made him into a mighty
man of God and he went down in history as one of the heroes of faith.
It took a Word from God. It took a revelation to produce faith. Are
you beginning to see something?
25Faith is Based on Words
26
Faith is based on words. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by
the rhema Word of God. Faith comes when a person hears words and
believes those words. If somebody makes you a promise that they
are going to give you something and you believe their words, then
you act accordingly. If somebody promises you anything and you
believe their words you act on their promise. If somebody gives you
an instruction and you believe their words, you obey the instruction.
Faith is based on words, because words are the way that a person
communicates their spirit, and faith is a spiritual thing.
27Faith Comes From a Rhema Word
28
Faith comes from a rhema word, not a logos word, not the written
Scriptures. They are written words. But the Scriptures have to come
to life before they become rhema word. The Scriptures have to be
taken and put back into human lips and be spoken by God before
they can become live rhema word again. You have to hear God saying
it again. It is no good reading the Scripture that says, "By His stripes
I am healed", because you are rather going to believe the sickness in
your body. But when God takes those words afresh in His lips and
says to you, "By His stripes you are healed," it is a rhema word, it is
fresh. It is, "Hey, I'm talking to you now. This is a Word for you. You
are healed by His stripes."
Faith is produced when that rhema word comes forth. And then we
have the ability to reach out and to take the thing that God has
promised.
29Faith Has an Assurance
30
Faith involves knowing that you know that
you know. Faith has to have a heart
knowledge. In other words if I speak a Word
to you and it confirms the Word that you
have already heard in your heart, it comes
to you as confirmation and you know that
you heard right. You know that you have
heard a rhema word from God, and faith is
born.
31
Can you see the prophet in this folks? Can
you see the prophet? The prophet is getting
a revelation. He is giving a Word from God.
The prophet is saying, "Thus saith the Lord
to you right now, you personally."
"when God
takes those
words afresh
in His lips and
says to you,
"By His stripes
you are
healed," it is a
rhema word"
32
It is going to produce faith if it is a Word
from God. Those words are going to produce faith in the heart of the
person who hears them because they are a rhema word. When that
prophet's Word goes forth and confirms what the person has sensed
in their spirit and in their heart by the Holy Spirit, we have this
double revelation - a revelation from without and a revelation from
within. And so faith is born, and faith comes forth in the heart of a
person.
33
Prophet of God when you speak a prophetic word, are you
producing faith in the hearts of the person that you speak to? If you
are not you are not speaking a rhema word. You are not giving a
correct, "Thus saith the Lord..." because a rhema word from God,
according to the Scriptures, will produce faith. What are your
prophecies producing? Are they producing faith? I am going to look at
it more as we go on.
34
The prophet needs to be producing love in people. In the book of
Acts we read concerning the prophets. In Acts 11:27 it says:
35
Acts 11:27 And in these days prophets came from Jerusalem to
Antioch.
36
28 And one of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the
Spirit that there would be a great famine throughout all the land:
which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
37
29 Then the disciples, every man according to his ability,
determined to send relief to the brothers who dwelt in Judaea:
38
30 Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of
Barnabas and Saul. (GMR)
39Producing Love
40
The prophetic word should produce love. How can the prophetic
word produce love? Because it speaks to a person and says, "God
loves you. The Lord understands you. The Lord knows your need. God
is concerned about you. He cares."
41
And when a person hears that Word, suddenly a revelation
appears. "I'm special. God cares. God loves me. I'm important to
Him."
42
Is that what you are communicating when you speak a prophetic
word? Are you speaking forth a Word that convinces the person that
God loves them and He cares for them? If your prophetic word does
not do that then you are not speaking forth the rhema word of God,
prophet.
43
The prophetic word will produce love of man as it did in this
passage. As the prophetic word came forth, it indicated that there
were believers in another part of the country that were going to suffer
poverty as a result of an economic recession, to put it into modern
terms. What did the church do? They panicked. They said, "We had
better get ready in case it comes here too. Guys we'd better start
stocking up our shelves. Y2K is coming!"
44
No. They said, "We are concerned for our brethren over there. We
are concerned. Let's
gather together an offering right away now. Let's send it out. Let's go
and help our brothers so that they don't suffer as a result of this
economic crisis."
45
It produced love in the hearts of the
people, not selfishness. No looking after
number one, no panic and fear. It produced
love. Are your prophetic words producing
love, love towards the Lord and love towards
one another? When the prophet has stood up
and done his thing does he leave love
behind? Are the hearers who heard that
prophetic word stimulated to love one
another more? Are they stimulated to love
the Lord more? If they are not, you missed it
prophet, you missed it. You did not do what
God had put you there to do.
46Producing Hope
"They said,
"We had better
get ready in
case it comes
here too. Guys
we'd better
start stocking
up our shelves.
Y2K is
coming!"
47
The prophet is meant to produce hope for
the future. We cannot get away from the
future when we are prophets can we? The word of wisdom, which
operates in the prophet, is a gift which always has a future
orientation. It is a gift which always gives a person direction. It has to
be directive. It has to give some kind of future orientation. It has to
give somebody a picture to pin their hopes on, something to cause
the person to hang in there in the midst of trial and difficulty and the
problems of this life. It must inspire in them the hope to grab on and
hold on and know that God is going to deliver them.
48
God is going to bring them out. God is going to bring to pass a
wonderful future. Is that what you are producing when you give a
prophetic word?
49
"Thus saith the Lord, 'You will lose a family member next year.' "
50
That really builds a person's hope.
51
"God says, 'You're going to lose your job, brother.' "
52
"Oh wonderful! That's just what I needed to hear tonight. With all
the financial difficulties we have right now, losing my job - that's good
news. That really builds my hope."
53
Listen, I have found that God does not let us know what the future
holds, even though He knows what the future holds, but He gives us
the next step. If God is going to reveal to the prophet the future He
expects the prophet to do something about it. We have covered this
under other messages on the prophetic authority, and we covered it
on how to use the word of wisdom to predict, so I am not going to
cover it here. But are you building hope in the people? When you
have spoken a prophetic word, when you have ministered in the Spirit
and spoken for God, are the people inspired in hope to hang on, to
persevere, to go on with God to accomplish in their spiritual lives? Or
do they go out in despair. You are meant to be building hope. You are
meant to be building faith. You are meant to be building love. If you
are not doing that, you are not fulfilling your ministry, prophet,
because that is what God has called you to do.
CHAPTER 8
1Second Goal: A Full Knowledge of the Lord
2 The
second thing that the prophet is meant to be doing is to bring
believers to a full knowledge of the Lord. Paul says here:
3 Ephesians
1:18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that
you may know what is the hope of his calling... (GMR)
4 What
did he pray?
5 Ephesians
1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
knowledge of him: (GMR)
6 God
wants you as a prophet to give people a knowledge of Him. How
are you going to bring people to a knowledge of God?
7The Righteousness of God
8 "Well,
God is a righteous God. He's a holy God. He will not tolerate sin.
He will judge. He will destroy. He's a God of vengeance."
9 Is
that what you are preaching, prophet? I don't find it here. Paul seems
to have missed it. I guess Paul wasn't perfect, hey? He missed it here. He
left that one out. He said, "I want you to have a hope of His calling." A
hope. My hope is not judgement. My hope is not condemnation. My hope
is not that God is going to destroy me. That is not hope. Condemnation
and sin consciousness do not produce hope. But walking in a clear
conscience, walking knowing that God has dealt with your sin,
walking knowing that Jesus has purchased your redemption, that He has
clothed you in His righteousness and His holiness, that gives me hope.
10Condemnation Does Not Produce Hope
11 Being
"Condemnation
and sin
consciousness
do not produce
hope."
aware of my sin takes away my hope.
I do not even know if I am going to make it to
heaven. How can I have hope if I am
wondering if I could lose my salvation
tomorrow? That is not hope. You standing up
preaching condemnation and telling people
that they are going to go to hell; telling them
that God is going to take away their salvation;
telling them that they are going to be blotted out of the book of life; that
is not hope. Judgement and condemnation is not hope.
12 It
gives a wrong revelation of the nature of God because God is not just
a Father. God is a Father, and He is a Son, and He is a Holy Spirit. He is
a triune God. He is a complete God. God revealed Himself under the Old
Covenant as the Father, and people are hung up on Old Testament
prophets. We are going to cover that too. Listen, the Old Testament
prophet did not know of the existence of the Son. He had not come yet.
He had not been born yet. He had not purchased redemption yet. They
gave a revelation of the Father, in preparation for the revelation of the
Son. Hallelujah, the Son has come! He has come, and He hung on the
cross. He took the penalty for your sin and for mine. He hung there and
He said, "It is finished!"
13 Well,
we will have to help Him out because I don't think He did a good
enough job. He said, "It is finished!" Are you calling Him a liar? It is
finished. The work of Calvary is finished. You do not have to repeat it.
You don't have to do it again. He paid the penalty and the price for your
sin.
14 A
revelation of God is not the revelation of His judgement. Hey, the
whole world knows that. Even unbelievers know that. They call natural
disasters an act of God, because that is all they know about Him, as a
God of judgement. They think He is standing there with a big stick
wanting to destroy. They do not know His love. They don't know His
other attributes. Yes, He is a God of righteousness and He is a God of
judgement. If you want to find out about how strong His judgement and
how strong His righteousness are, have a look at Calvary. He killed His
own Son, that is how much God hates sin. But He condemned sin in
Christ. Jesus paid the judgement for that sin. I cannot emphasize it
enough.
15 Paul
says, "I want you to have a revelation of the hope of His calling."
We have a blessed hope, saints of God. Our blessed hope is that we will
stand in His presence one day, "not by works of righteousness which we
have done, but according to His mercy He saved us by the washing of
regeneration and renewal of the Holy Ghost." That is the Word. That is a
blessed hope. Glory! I have that hope in me. Hope in the Scriptures is
never, "I hope so." It is, "I am earnestly expecting it and I am going to be
extremely surprised if it does not happen!" That is Bible hope.
16Jesus' Inheritance in the Saints
17 Paul
says, "I want you to have a revelation ... what are the riches of the
glory of His inheritance in the saints." His inheritance in the saints. It
does not say, "The saints inheritance in Him." It says, "His inheritance in
the saints." What is an inheritance? An inheritance is one of those things
that you pray came your way; that there was some rich relative that you
did not know about that died and left you some money. That is what you
call an inheritance. When the kids are saying, "I wonder when the old
girl is going to croak so we can get rich." That is an inheritance. It is
blessing, it is finance, it is money. It is the good things you receive when
somebody dies.
18 The
Bible tells me that Jesus has an inheritance. Unfortunately He had
to die for it Himself. But He obtained an inheritance. Where is His
inheritance? His inheritance is in the saints.
Who are the saints? You and I, who are born
again of the Spirit of God. The Bible calls us
saints. Saint means 'Holy Ones'.
19 "Well
Jesus only has an inheritance in the
select few that are going to make it to heaven
one day."
20 Poor
Jesus, He got a bum deal, He really did.
He died on the cross, and all He gets is a bunch
of suckers! No, the Scripture says, "He saw His
seed and was satisfied." When Jesus hung there
on the cross He looked down and He saw you
and He said, "Oh yeah, I like it. This makes it
worth it all." He saw you and said, "I will
gladly die for that. That is special to Me. That
is important to Me. I cannot wait to receive My
inheritance!"
21 We
"An
inheritance is
one of those
things that you
pray came
your way; that
there was
some rich
relative that
you did not
know about
that died and
left you some
money."
are His inheritance. We are special to
Him. He died for that. He paid the supreme
price to buy us. We are very important to Him.
Is that the revelation of God that you are
giving, prophets? Are you showing people by your prophetic ministry,
that they are special to the Lord? Are you showing them that Jesus
considers them important enough to die for? Are you showing them that
they are so special that He will give His all again and again if He had to,
just for you? Is that what you are communicating to somebody when you
speak a prophetic word? Are you saying, "I want you to know something.
I want to tell you something. You are very special and important to the
Lord and you are very valuable to Him."
22 Is
that what you are saying? Or are you saying, "You useless, miserable
rotten sinner. The Lord is going to throw you out at the first opportunity
He gets. He does not want you, you ugly thing you."
23 You
just indicated what He was not. You did not teach people His true
nature. You missed it. That is not what God called you to do.
24Revelation of His Power
25 Paul
said, "What is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us
who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He
wrought in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and set Him at His
own right hand in the heavenly places."
26 The
greatness of His power - how great is that power? That power was
so great that it raised Jesus from the dead and lifted Him up. It lifted Him
up and put Him equal to God to be seated on the right hand of the throne
of heaven. That power, which took Jesus and made Him that, Paul says,
is the power that is available to us. "What is the exceeding greatness of
His power towards us."
27 "Well,
brother, you have to work hard for it. You are going to have to
really get close to the Lord. You are going to have to deal with sin in
your life. You are going to have to fast for weeks on end to receive this.
You are going to have to crucify the flesh, brother, and get rid of all those
bad habits in your life. You are going to have to start going to church.
You had better pray hours every day, and you had better be in the Word
continuously."
28 Yes,
those things are all good. They are great. But again Paul really
must have been ignorant. He missed that. He forgot to tell us that.
29 He
said, "This power is available to us who believe."
30 "Paul,
what do you mean, 'who believe'?"
31 "Well,
believe. Believe is the verb that comes from the noun 'faith'. To
believe means to exercise faith."
32 Oh
we are getting back to faith again. How do we enter into the power?
How does the power become available to us? By holiness? By
consecration? No! By faith. '...he that believes'. The power is available to
him who believes. Prophet, you have misrepresented God. You have
portrayed to people a God who is not the God you are meant to be
portraying. You have not shown His true
nature. He is a faith God. The Scripture says in
Hebrews 11:6:
33 Hebrews
11:6 Without faith it is impossible
to please Him. (GMR)
34 It
was Abraham's faith that was imputed to
him for righteousness. It was not his works. It
was not his effort. It was his faith. Prophet of
God you should be teaching people how to
move in and to receive and to have the power
of God working in their life. You should be
teaching them how to do it by faith. You
should be teaching people how to believe God
and to see Him work in them.
"Prophet, you
have
misrepresented
God. You have
portrayed to
people a God
who is not the
God you are
meant to be
portraying."
35 But
people are put down and made to think
they cannot attain it.
36 "Oh,
I wish I could be spiritual like the prophet. He is such a man of
God."
37 "Just
look at me. I went on a 40 day fast just recently and during that
time the Lord appeared to me. If you want to become spiritual and close
to the Lord and have the power of God in you like me, you will have to
do the same."
38 You
are lifting yourself up. You are not lifting the Lord Jesus up. You
are not saying, "Hey, don't look at me, I am nothing special. I just want to
tell you something. It is my faith in the One who is special. That is what
is different in me. It is His power that is in me. It is not me. It is my total
trust in Him. And hey, if you could trust Him, and you could believe
Him, the same power is available to you, and more."
39 Why
not?
40 Paul
says that Jesus, "...was raised far above all principality and power
and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this
world but in that which is to come. He put all things under His feet and
gave Him to be head over all things to the church."
41 We
are meant to be showing people that they bear the Name, which is
above every other name. Are you teaching people about the Name? Are
you teaching them and inspiring them to use the Name, to walk in the
Name, to become the Name which is above every other name? Are you
uplifting people with the word of encouragement to let them know, "You
are in Christ. You are seated in heavenly places. You are more than a
conqueror through Him who loved you. You are seated with Him on the
throne of heaven. You have the right to use His name and every knee
must bow to the Name. Therefore every knee shall bow to Christ in
you."?
42 Is
that what you are presenting? Is that the revelation of the Lord that
you are giving to people, because if you are not, then you are not
fulfilling your ministry, prophet of God.
43 "Which
is His body," Paul said, "the fullness of Him that fills all in
all."
44 Every believer has a place in the body. Every member of the body is
important. No matter how insignificant and how small it might be, every
single part of my body is important to me.
45 "Yes
well, you know, I could do without a hand. I mean I just cut my
hands off every time they give me grief. Every time my hand does not
function properly I cut it off and go and get a new one."
46Every Part of the Body is Vital
47 Are
you presenting to the body of Christ, to every single person, that
they are a vital part of the body; that they are important; that their
function is very important, and that without their function the body would
be crippled? Are you presenting that? Are you presenting to people the
fact that Jesus does not see Himself without His body. When was the last
time you walked down the street and saw somebody's head all by itself
without the body?
48 I
remember seeing a scene recently on one of the TV screens in a shop
of this new cartoon called Ants. The guy was standing there talking to
this ant's head that had been cut off and his body was gone. He couldn't
survive. I mean the head was talking away but his body was gone. Ants
can survive for a while without their body. But the human being cannot.
You take away a guy's body and he is
dead, man. But we expect Jesus to walk around
being a head and just do without His body.
49 "Well,
this foot is giving me grief today.
We'll just cut it off. Useless foot, full of sin and
unrighteousness. You are not important."
50 Listen,
every part of your body is important.
But you know prophets are so guilty of going
by revelation and pulling out the important
parts of the body. It is so easy to stand up and
receive a revelation and say,
"Ants can
survive for a
while without
their body. But
the human
being cannot."
51 "Sister
over there with the green hat on, stand up. God has a Word for
you, 'Thus saith the Lord...' " So we give a great big word of prophecy
over the person, and everybody says, "Ooh, boy, the prophet is on the
ball. Wow, wonderful!"
52 But
you have the other poor guy sitting there thinking, "I wish I was
important enough for the prophet to call me out. But obviously I am not
very important to the Lord. He does not care about me. He just cares for
so and so over there and that person there. The prophet saw that person
over there and prophesied over them, and did that. But me? Hey, nobody
ever prophesies over me. I am obviously not very important to the Lord. I
am not a big name. I do not have a great big ministry. I'm not going to be
another great big evangelist. I am just going to be little old me sitting in
the back seat doing nothing, useless. The Lord has not chosen me. He
hasn't called me. I am not important."
53 You
know, it is like when we look at a person and judge them by their
face and by their looks, and judge them by external appearances. But
there is so much more in there that is valuable. Prophet of God are you
creating that impression when you minister to people, that only some
people are important, and others are not? Or are you communicating the
true care that the Lord has for His body. The Scripture says:
54 Ephesians
5:29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes
and cherishes it... (GMR)
55 Listen,
I don't care if your little pinky is unimportant and you think you
never need it. It is important to you. Just cut it, and see how important it
is to you. When it starts to hurt, you suddenly start to give your attention
to that little insignificant part of your body. It is important. Without it the
body cannot function. Just try losing one of those parts and see how
crippled the body becomes. But we are so prone to present the prophetic
ministry in a way that is only self-exalting and only promotes those
people who have big ministries. That is not a true representation of the
nature of our Lord, and if you are doing that you are missing it. You are
not fulfilling your true prophetic ministry.
CHAPTER 9
1Third Goal: Preparing Believers For Ministry
2 Now
I want to go on and develop this theme further because we see that
the final function, or goal, or purpose of the prophetic ministry, is to be
prepare believers for their ministry. In Ephesians 4:11 where the five-fold
ministry is listed it says:
3 Ephesians
4:11 And he Himself gave some apostles, and some prophets;
and some evangelists; and some pastors and teachers (GMR)
4 What
did He give them for?
5 Ephesians
4:12 For the perfecting of the saints... (GMR)
6 That
word perfect in the Scripture always means 'grown up'. You were
given to bring the saints to maturity. How do you bring them to maturity?
By inspiring them to move into faith, love and hope. You are not going to
forget it by the time you have finished reading this message! That is how
you bring people to maturity. If they do not have faith, hope and love
they are not mature, because those are the signs of spiritual maturity.
7 You
have been called for the perfecting of the saints, for the maturing of
the saints, to bring them to ministry. Why? For the work of the ministry
and for the building up of the body of Christ. For the building up of the
body, not for the destruction of the body of Christ. You are not a John the
Baptist. John the Baptist was the last of the Old Testament prophets and
he was a fiery man of God and was
used for a short season to fulfill only one task, to prepare the way of the
coming Messiah. But I want to tell you something. The Messiah has
come. He is here. We do not need another John the Baptist.
8 John
the Baptist preached fire and brimstone.
A lot of today's prophets think they have to do
the same. But I want to tell you something,
John the Baptist, in his own words said of
Jesus, "He must increase that I may decrease."
9 Jesus
is the first New Testament prophet, do
you know that? Did you know that Jesus was
the first New Testament prophet? John was the
last Old Testament prophet. Jesus came along,
and He did not preach fire and brimstone. Jesus
preached love and forgiveness. He ministered
love and forgiveness and healing.
10 John
"You are not a
John the
Baptist. John
the Baptist
was the last of
the Old
Testament
prophets and
he was a fiery
man of God"
became so confused. He sat there in
prison listening to all these things that Jesus
was doing, this one who was going to rise up
and take his place. He figured, "Man, if they
think I'm fiery, just wait until this guy comes. He is going to supercede
me. He is going to knock the socks off them. He's going to blow them
away."
11 But
he kept hearing these reports that Jesus was not doing this. The guy
sat there in prison thinking he missed it bad. He was really getting
confused. He sent some of his disciples to Jesus and said, "Hey, are you
the right guy or did I miss it? Are you really the one to come? Hey, you
are confusing me. You are not doing what I thought you were supposed
to do."
12 People
are still confused about that today. Even prophets are still
confused about this. We are to perfect the saints. We are to bring them to
maturity, and we need to train them and prepare them to do the work of
the ministry. You do not prepare somebody to do the work of the
ministry by telling them how useless they are all the time. You don't do
that. You do not prepare somebody to do a job by telling him, "You are
too stupid to do this." You don't prepare somebody for a job by saying,
"You are never going to hack it. You are just not righteous enough. Your
life doesn't shape up. Sorry, you are just not going to make it in this
ministry."
13 You
don't prepare people that way. That is the way you fire people.
That is not the way you employ them. Maybe I am ignorant on this, but
as far as I know when you employ somebody you encourage them and
you identify their gifts and their abilities. You say, "Hey, I can see you
are qualified to do this job. Now I can train you and help you to develop
those qualities and to do the job better. If you join up with us we will start
you off and we will train you. We will cause you to build up until you
become a really valuable part of this corporation. You could even rise up
into leadership and become a Director, because we see ability in you. We
see gifts and potential in you."
14 That
is what you are meant to be doing, prophet of God. You are meant
to be equipping people for the work of the ministry. How are you going
to do that?
15Identifying Gifts and Ministries
16 The
first way you are going to do this is by helping them identify their
gifts and their ministries. I have been in churches where invitation is
given. "If you would like to become involved in Sunday school, ladies
fellowship, if you would like to be a deacon (whatever it is) come on,
give us your name. Come and volunteer." Then all the useless ones come
up that have no ability, that have no desire, that are basically just going
up there to make pastor happy. In most churches the majority of people
are sitting in a function that God never ordained, because nobody has
ever taken the trouble
to say, "I see in you a potential for this kind of ministry."
17 "Well,
brother, you have a music ministry, because you have a musical
talent."
18 Hey,
he had the musical talent before he was
saved. Don't tell me that is his ministry.
19 "Well,
this brother is an accountant. He is
good with money. Brother, God has called you
to be treasurer."
20 Yes,
"In most
churches the
majority of
people are
sitting in a
function that
God never
ordained"
that is a real call of God that! He has the
gift of treasurer-ship. Yes. They laid hands on
him. No, no, no! That is not a gift and ministry.
We looked at prophetic gifts and ministries
earlier. As a prophet you are meant to be
helping people to identify the gifts that are in
them. I find even as we have been going
through the School, as I have been asking people concerning some of
their ministries and some of their gifts and callings, again and again they
have said, "Well, I have never really moved in that gift. No, I don't really
function in that ministry."
21 A
lot of times they have. It is there, but they did not recognize it. Why?
Because nobody came and told them, "Do you realize that you are
functioning in this gift."
22 A
lot of prophets have been giving prophetic ministry and did not even
know it, because nobody ever said, "Do you realize that you are
functioning in a prophetic ministry?"
23 "Am
24 "Do
I? I was just doing what comes naturally."
you realize you are a teacher?"
25 "Well
I like to share the Scriptures and share some ideas, but I didn't
really think I was a teacher!"
26 A
lot of people do know their ministry because they have sought the
Lord and they have obtained revelation. But I will tell you where the
greatest potential for ministry is. It is the little guy sitting there in the
pews, not pushing himself, feeling unworthy, feeling incapable of doing
anything significant. The thought never enters into his or her mind that
they could be something great. They are just sitting there humbly, being
faithful, being prepared to do whatever God gives them to do.
27 That
is the person you should be aiming for, prophet. Not only the
person that you can see is obviously gifted or qualified, and already
flowing in prophetic gifts, or flowing in this ministry and that ministry.
You should be identifying the little guy there who never ever thought he
had a ministry. You should be helping every single believer that you
minister to, to identify their gift and their calling and their place, because
every single member of the body of Christ has a ministry. But ninety
percent or more do not know what they are supposed to be doing because
nobody has ever shown them. Nobody has ever taught them. Nobody has
ever given them some kind of revelation or confirmation to say, "Do you
know that desire that has been in your heart? Do you realize God put that
there? Do you realize that is a calling, and God wants to develop it and
use it?"
28 "Who
me? Oh, I really couldn't be anything."
29 "Yes
you. I want to tell you something. God is going to lift you up.
God is going to use you. You don't have to sit there being a nobody. God
wants to raise you up and use you to minister to a lot of people. And as I
pray for you I see you standing behind a pulpit speaking to a lot of
people."
30 "Who
31 "Yes
32 "No
me? You're kidding."
you."
it can't be."
33 "Well,
have you ever desired to do that?"
34 "Oh
yes, I daydream. I've thought about it and thought, 'Oh it would be
so wonderful.'"
35 "Well,
who do you think put that desire in you?"
36 That
is what you should be doing - stirring up the gifts and ministries.
You should be developing your gifts of revelations to help people to
identify their ministries.
37 When
I pray with people it is one of the first things that God begins to
show me. I begin to see their ministries. God shows me that He is giving
them different objects, and according to the kind of object I see in the
Spirit that the Lord is giving them, I can usually identify the kind of
ministry that God is giving them.
38 Are
you doing that when you come to pray with somebody, or are you
waiting for God to reveal
their sin to you so you can rebuke them? You
have it all wrong. You need to be building the
body up and helping that person move into
"God shows
their ministry, and identifying their gifts.
39Impartation of Gifts
40 And
then God wants you to go one step
further than that, because if the person does not
have the gift and God reveals to you that He
wants to use them in that gift, He wants you to
give it to them.
41 "Who
me?"
42 "Yeah,
you!"
me that He is
giving them
different
objects, and
according to
the kind of
object I see in
the Spirit that
the Lord is
43 The
giving them, I
prophet is meant to be imparting what is
can usually
in his spirit. He is meant to be communicating
it outwards. I want to deal with that subject in
identify the
detail at some stage in spiritual impartation. I
kind of
remember the first time the Lord ever showed
ministry that
it to me. I had never read anything about it,
never thought about it, or read any teaching on
God is giving
it. But I remember I was sitting the one night
them."
and God had put so much in me. He had given
me revelation. Jesus had appeared to me and
showed me His love. There was just so much
that God had given me in the Spirit, and I looked at my wife and thought,
"If only she could have what God has given me, but she says she hasn't
received that."
44 Then
the Lord brought to my mind what happens in a blood
transfusion. Normally they take the blood out then put it in, but there
have been cases where the blood is taken from one person and put into
the other. The Lord said, "Just as your blood could be taken out of your
veins and put into the veins of another," He said, "so I can take out of
your spirit and I can pour that same power and revelation into the spirit of
another." He said, "I want you to take her hand in your hand. As you hold
her hand I want you to imagine it is like your veins are joined and the
blood is flowing from you into her." He said, "I want you to see My
power flowing from you into her."
45 That
was the first time I ever experienced that. As I did it I began to
feel something coming out of my hands. Man, there was power coming
out of my fingers. It was pulling at me. Since that time God has showed
me how to do that in a clearer, more concise way. I began to see in the
Word all the principles that are involved, and since that time God has
used me again and again to pray with people and to impart to them the
gifts which they have desired.
46 So
often I have prayed with somebody, and as I have prayed with them
God has shown me, "This person needs to be ministering in a gift of
healing."
47 I
will say to the person, "What have you desired to really do for the
Lord?" and they might say, "Oh, I would love to be able to pray for the
sick and see them healed."
48 I
would say, "Oh yeah, you are right. That is exactly what God showed
me. Here it is! In the Name of Jesus I impart to you the gift of healing."
49 And
there comes an impartation. There comes a transferring, a pouring
forth. As God pours it into your spirit you pour it out into the spirit of the
other person. There comes an impartation. A lot of impartation takes
place automatically when spirit to spirit communication takes place. I am
not going to deal with that in detail here. But you should be imparting
spiritual gifts to believers. That is what you should be doing - giving out
what God has given you.
50Impartation Through Discipleship
51 Then
you should be imparting, not only spiritual gifts in that way, but
you should be imparting to others everything you have. This we do by the
principle the Bible calls discipleship. The modern term is mentoring. I
use mentoring a lot because people understand what it means, but it is not
a scriptural term, because often what people see as mentoring is not the
real thing. The scriptural term is discipleship. Discipleship means that
you pour into an individual everything you have, everything that is in
your spirit, all the knowledge that is in your head. You pour it into that
person.
52 Are
you a prophet? Are you doing these things? Are you identifying
gifts in people? Are you identifying their calling and their ministry? Are
you imparting to them gifts and ministries? Are you pouring into
individuals that God raises up and brings to you, everything you have, or
are you afraid
that somebody might outdistance you if they
know everything you know, so you just keep
them slightly ignorant so they keep below you
all the time? So many pastors are guilty of that.
53Common Errors
54Producing Doubt Instead of Faith
55 I
"Are you
pouring into
individuals
that God
raises up and
brings to you,
everything you
have"
want to look quickly in conclusion at the
kind of errors that prophets make. Instead of
producing faith, prophets produce doubt. They
produce doubt in the life of the person. How
can you produce doubt instead of faith? There
are many ways. But one of the most common
ones is when the prophet comes and tries to give a directive word that is
out of order in accordance with what God has already spoken in the heart
of that person. The person has had a desire in their heart to move in a
certain direction. It has been burning in them for a long time. They are
waiting for confirmation, for an external confirmation. Maybe they are
even waiting for a prophet to come and say, "I want to confirm what God
has placed in you."
56 But
then some trainee prophet comes along and prophesies his own
burden over them and gives them a direction which is completely out of
order, which is not in line at all with what God intended. The person goes
into total confusion and doubt. It destroys their faith. It goes against what
they have sensed in their spirit. Instead of getting that double revelation
that I spoke about earlier, there comes a contrary revelation.
57Producing Fear Instead of Love
58 Prophets
produce fear in people instead of love, and fear is the opposite
of love. How do we do that?
59 "God
is going to judge you. He is going to deal with you. He has
revealed to me there is sin in your life and He is going to have to deal
with it."
60Producing Despair Instead of Hope
61 A
prophet produces despair by negative prophesies concerning the
future, as I shared earlier. All of these things produce fear. Love is
destroyed and the person's motivation is taken away. Hopelessness and
despair are brought by bad predictions. God always gives hope, and the
prophet should always be speaking, if he is going to be speaking a
predictive word, it should be the good that God is going to do.
62 I
have found that every time I have ministered to people, the Lord has
allowed me to see them the way He sees them. And though externally I
may make a judgment and look at that person and think,
"Oh, they are not too intelligent. They don't
look really committed. I can see they have
problems in their life. They have had a bad
"every time I
background," whatever it may be, the Lord
have
shows me that this is a gem that is important to
ministered to
Him.
63 I
find as I begin to speak to that person, the
Lord speaks a prophetic word that says, "You
are special to Me. I chose you and I prepared
you, and I have hidden you away just for Me. I
am going to lift you up, and I am going to raise
you up. I am going to use you far greater than
you could ever dream of."
64 And
people, the
Lord has
allowed me to
see them the
way He sees
them."
the person says, "Wow!" Hope is built.
Excitement and motivation is built. So often as
the Lord has spoken to me in the Spirit He has always said, "You are
special to Me. I love you. I care for you. I do not condemn you. I
understand your failures and I want to help you. I want to help you
overcome the sin in your life."
65 And
when there are obvious bad habits in my life He has never ever
come to me and said, "You had better pack that in or I am going to judge
you." He has spoken to me in love and said, "I would be so happy if you
gave that up." Hey, that is an offer I cannot refuse. It is given in love. I
just cannot refuse it, because it is motivated by love.
66 What
are you hoping to accomplish as a prophet? Think about it. You
know God has called you to a prophetic ministry. What are you hoping to
accomplish? If it is not what we have shared here then you are on the
wrong track. Then you are not called to be a prophet of God and you are
missing it completely. If you have already been functioning as a prophet
for a season, I want you to ask yourself this question. What have you
accomplished so far in your ministry? If it is not what we have shared
here then you have failed, because that is what God has called the
prophet to do.
67 That
is the prophetic purpose.
Chapter 10 - Prophetic Gifts - Section 1
CHAPTER 10
Prophetic Gifts - Section 1
1Prophetic Gifts
2
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be
ignorant: You know that you were Gentiles, carried away towards
these dumb idols, in the way that you were being led. Therefore I am
letting you know that no one speaking through the Spirit of God calls
Jesus accursed, but no one can say that Jesus is Lord except through
the agency of the Holy Spirit.
3
Now there are various different gifts, but the same Spirit. There are
various different ministries, but the same Lord. And there are various
different modes of operation, but it is the same God that operates all
of them in all cases. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given so
that everyone can benefit. 1 Corinthians 12:1
4The Gifts of the Spirit
5
I want to deal with the prophetic gifts here, or the gifts that are
associated with the Prophetic Ministry. I can remember years ago
when I first received the anointing of the Holy Spirit and I entered
into that spiritual dimension that opens the gateway to move into the
manifestations of the Holy Spirit, or what we call the gifts of the
Spirit, my spiritual life took off. I became all excited and wanted to
know more and more about it. I had grown up in a Pentecostal
environment, so I had seen and heard about the gifts of the Spirit,
but I had never moved in them myself. Now suddenly the potential
was given to me. It was in my hands. I had walked through the door.
I had an opportunity now to begin to move into
this new realm of the Spirit, and I was so excited about it that I just
wanted to get out there and find out all that I could about it.
6
Well, at that time if I wanted to learn something, I would go
through the bookshops and find every book that I could on the
subject. My book account at that time was my greatest monthly
commitment. I knew the Christian bookshop
better than the people who worked there
did, because I was always in there finding
some new book or doctrine. I would
consume all I could and I would fill my mind
until I knew every teaching and doctrine
inside out.
7
"I entered into
that spiritual
dimension that
opens the
gateway to
move into the
manifestations
of the Holy
Spirit"
So when I moved into this new dimension
of the Spirit, the first thing I did was to go
into that bookshop and pull out all the books
that I could find on the gifts of the Spirit. I
walked in there looking for a section that
would say, 'Gifts of the Spirit'. I expected
that I would have to try and decide which
books I was going to buy first to take home
and to read. But there was no section
entitled 'Gifts of the Spirit'. In fact, I could
not find any books on the subject. And when
I finally managed to locate a book it was one written by somebody
who did not believe in the gifts of the Spirit, who was telling me that
it was not for today anymore, and had been done away with the
apostles.
8
I began to dig and search. I looked everywhere for some kind of
teaching that would show me how to enter into and move into these
wonderful new gifts that were available. I knew they were there. I
had heard it preached and taught from the pulpit that they were
there, but there was no teaching to tell me how to get into it. I
became so frustrated, I said, "Lord, how am I going to find out how
to move into these new things if there is no teaching out there?"
9
That was when I first discovered that there is really very little
teaching out there on the gifts. And even today in the great move of
the Spirit throughout the earth, there is a great Charismatic renewal
that has been taking place. But you will still find a limited number of
books that will give very clear teaching on how to operate in and
move into the gifts of the Spirit. There seems to be the idea that,
"God gives the gifts to whomever He wants, and when He gives them
to you He will teach you how to use them, so we cannot teach you
how to use them. And if God does not give it to you, you are not
going to get it, so how can we teach you how to receive the gifts of
the Spirit?"
10
So every new person, who rises up with this great desire in them
to move into the gifts, finds that they are left stranded in the cold for
the Lord to teach them how to move into it. Therefore I want to deal
with the gifts of the Spirit and explain a bit on how they work. We are
dealing with the Prophetic Ministry, so I am going to gauge this whole
thing specifically towards the Prophetic Ministry, but we are going to
start with the gifts. We will start at the bottom and work our way up.
We need to understand the gifts, understand what they are, and how
they work.
11
I am amazed at how much ignorance I see even amongst those
that are already moving in the gifts, and even those that are in the
Prophetic Office and are being used by God in these gifts. They often
do not understand what the gifts are and how they are supposed to
operate. They just know they have been doing them. Sometimes they
have been operating in them naturally, without even realizing that
they are operating in a gift. We need to have a clear understanding of
how the Spirit of God moves in the ministries in the church, and
particularly in the prophet.
12Gifts and Manifestations
13
So we go to 1 Corinthians 12 to the passage that gives an
introduction to the gifts of the Spirit, and we see that the Scripture
speaks about the gifts as being the manifestation of the Spirit. There
is a big mistake that people often make. We use this term 'gift', which
is a word that was added to the original. They were called 'spirituals'
in the original, not spiritual gifts. But because we have added this
word 'gifts' now, we come up with the idea that since this is a gift,
you have to wait for God to give it to you, otherwise you have no way
of obtaining it.
14
Then we make the other mistake of saying, "I have this gift,
therefore I can take it and use it any time I please. It is my gift and
my power, and I can use it the way I want to use it." So we arrive at
two extremes - the one that makes it all God's decision, and the other
one that makes it under man's control. We need to have a balance
here and understand what the Spirit of God is teaching.
15
If you look at the gifts of the Spirit you see that they are called the
manifestations of the Spirit. The passage at the beginning says, "But
the manifestation of the Spirit is given so that everyone can benefit."
The manifestation of the Spirit - the way He manifests Himself. Every
one of us, when we are born again, receives the Spirit of God within
to come and dwell in our spirits. The Spirit of God then begins to
exercise and develop within us the fruit of the Spirit. But when the
Spirit manifests or shows Himself, He does so through a human
channel. And when He does it, He does it via the gifts of the Spirit.
16
It is not your gift. It is the Holy Spirit manifesting Himself through
you. But when He manifests Himself through you, He will manifest
Himself in nine different ways, according to
the Word of God. So we see the nine gifts or
manifestations of the Spirit, and they can be
divided into three groups - the vocal gifts,
the revelation gifts and the power gifts.
17The Vocal Gifts
18
"But when the
Spirit
manifests or
shows Himself,
He does so
through a
human
channel"
The vocal gifts are the gift of tongues, the
gift of interpretation and the gift of
prophecy. The Holy Spirit will manifest
Himself through a person vocally either in
other tongues or in the interpretation of
other tongues, or in a word of prophecy
which is a spontaneous utterance, under the
anointing of the Holy Spirit. I am not going
to go into a lot of detail on these gifts, but
we will speak about them as we go, and see
how they operate, how they function, and how they should be used,
particularly in the Prophetic Ministry.
19Diverse Tongues
20
The gift of tongues that is spoken of is the gift of diverse tongues.
Diverse is an old English word which means 'various different kinds of'
tongues. It is the gift that grants us the ability to speak in various
different types of tongues. A lot of people do not get any further and
they only speak in one tongue which is their original prayer language
that was given to them. But the gift of tongues gives us the ability to
move into far more than one tongue.
21Interpretation of Tongues
22
The interpretation of tongues is the ability to explain, in English,
what was said in the Spirit. The interpretation of tongues is not
necessarily only interpreting an utterance that was brought in a
meeting. We use the term 'message in tongues' and we say that an
interpretation is given to a message in tongues. But seldom do we
see the true gift of interpretation operating, that when somebody
prays in tongues, the tongue is interpreted as prayer. When
somebody worships in tongues, the tongues should be interpreted as
worship. Interpretation is simply an explanation in English of what
was said in tongues. It is not necessarily a translation.
23 A lot of people stumble over this, because somebody will stand up
and say in tongues a few short words, and the interpretation comes,
"Thus saith the Lord..." and we get screeds of Scripture, and this
great big explanation, and the interpretation goes on for 5 or 10
minutes.
24
You say, "Wow, all that was said in those few little sentences in
tongues?" No, the interpretation is not a translation. It is an
explanation, in English, of what was said in the other tongue.
25
I remember the first time I ever preached using an interpreter. Our
interpreter was not a very well accomplished man. He was the
ordinary servant who used to do the garden work, but he accepted
the Lord and wanted us to have meetings. So we organized meetings
and invited all the folk in the area, and because we did not know their
language he was going to interpret for us. The guy could hardly speak
English, but he was going to interpret for us! I remember the first day
that we stood up to preach. I said something nice and simple, a few
short sentences, and when he interpreted, he interpreted in about ten
sentences.
26
I thought, "Lord, I don't know what he is telling these people, but I
hope it is what I said."
27
Well I guess it must have been okay because the anointing came
down and people were saved. The Spirit of God began to move upon
people and they were filled with the Spirit, and healings began to take
place. But you see, he was trying to put into their language what he
understood I had said. He did not know the language well enough to
translate it word for word, but he was explaining to them, probably in
several sentences, what this preacher man was trying to say here.
Very often that is what the gift of interpretation does. It is simply God
giving you an insight as to what the Spirit was saying in that
utterance.
28Prophecy
29
Then of course, a word of prophecy is quite simply a spontaneous
speaking in the natural language what God gives you to speak. In a
sense, prophecy is really a spontaneous little sermon. So prophecy
can include Scripture, it can include illustrations, and it can include all
sorts of things. Some people tend to be very verbose, like yours truly,
when I speak in the natural. So when I prophesy my prophecy gets
very verbose as well.
30
God wants to say one simple little thing and we have to speak for
ten minutes on it. Why? Because a concept, a picture, an idea is
given to the prophet, and the person simply, in their own words and
inspired by the Holy Spirit, begins to share in terms of their
knowledge and understanding. They begin to portray and describe the
picture that was given to them in their spirits. But from somebody
who does not speak much, you probably get two sentences, and that
is the word and you think, "Wow, that wasn't very inspired. All he
said was, 'Thus saith the Lord, everything is okay. Do not worry.' "
31
"Wow, very inspired. I mean, couldn't you have given us a few
Scriptures along the way, a few pictures, something a bit more
emotional?"
32
It is the same message, but a different messenger. The gifts
operate in different ways in different people, and we will get to that
shortly.
33Gifts of Revelation
34
The gifts of revelation are the word of knowledge, the word of
wisdom, and the discerning of spirits. In all three of these I find
people who are operating them and working in them that are
confused concerning what they are.
35Word of Knowledge
36
What is the word of knowledge? The word of knowledge is the
supernatural impartation of something you did not know before. The
word of knowledge is not the ability to understand Scripture better. It
is not an ability to develop your mental capabilities. The word of
knowledge is supernatural knowledge being imparted in your mind,
where the Spirit of God tells you something that you did not know
before. And it always relates to the past or the present.
37
So when the word of knowledge operates, God reveals to you a
situation or a circumstance that either existed in the past or exists in
the present situation. It will operate as you are ministering to
someone and God reveals to you something from their past or He
reveals to you their present circumstances. It may impart to you the
knowledge that there is somebody present who is suffering from a
sickness or disease or somebody that has some other type of
problem, in order that you can minister to that need.
38Word of Wisdom
39
The word of wisdom is also an impartation of supernatural
knowledge, but a different kind of knowledge. It is knowledge that
has a future orientation. The word of wisdom
always has a future orientation. It does not relate to things that have
happened in the past or that exist at present, but rather it relates to
where we should go from here.
40
The word of wisdom is one of the major
gifts that operates in the prophet. It is the
gift by which the prophet discerns and knows
what God's purpose is in the life of a person.
It enables the prophet to say things such as,
"God has called you to this. God wants to do
this in you. He is going to do this in you. God
is going to lead you and this will take place
in your life." And so it can lead into what
most people think of when you mention
Prophetic Ministry, which is predicting the
future. Any revelation that God gives you
that has a future orientation falls in the
realm of the word of wisdom.
"The word of
wisdom is one
of the major
gifts that
operates in the
prophet"
41Discerning of Spirits
42
Then we have the gift of discerning of spirits. You will hear people
saying, "Well, I have the gift of discernment." There is no such gift ,,,
it is the gift of discerning of spirits. Usually when folks speak of
discernment it means they can look at a person and tell what their sin
is.
43
"Yes, I have the gift of discernment," they will say. "I can see it.
Yes I can see it. Your life is not right before God. I know it. I can
detect it in the Spirit."
44
Discernment? No, that is not discernment, it is actually just a word
of knowledge. This gift relates specifically to spirits, which means you
have the ability to detect the presence or existence of spirits.
45
The gift of discerning of spirits is the gift that gives you the ability
to detect the presence of demons, which are spiritual beings. By the
gift of discerning of spirits you can discern and detect the presence of
demonic oppression and bondage in the life of somebody. And you
can detect the presence of angels. It operates in different ways. If
you detect angels or demons in the Spirit then you are operating in
the gift of the discerning of spirits. We will look at this more as we go
on and see how this gift operates in the ministry of the prophet.
46Power Gifts
47Gift of Faith
48
The third batch of gifts of course is the power gifts. What is the gift
of faith? It is a spontaneous supernatural impartation, which gives a
person the ability to believe without a doubt. Faith is knowing that
you know that you know. Faith releases a spontaneous total
assurance, and releases a power and authority that permits one to
speak forth boldly, to act boldly, and to cause things to take place in
the earth. It is one of the main gifts operating in the Prophetic Office,
or in someone who has learned how to function correctly as a
prophet. We have covered this in quite a lot of detail under the
Prophetic Key, so I am only mentioning it here. The prophetic key
falls almost entirely within the realm of the gift of faith.
49Gifts of Healings
50
This gift is in the plural. It is not the gift of healing, but the gifts of
healings. It is a multiple and multi-faceted gift. There are different
kinds of healings and different kinds of manifestations of healings.
You will find that people who operate in the gifts of healings tend to
operate in different kinds of gifts of healings. A particular healing
ministry will be
seen to have a greater faith and ability to
bring healing to a certain kind of disease.
Another ministry might have an ability to
bring a greater result in a different kind of
disease.
51
I find in my own experience that there are
certain things that, when I pray for them
physically, I know I will always get results.
One of them is dealing with a fever. If I
rebuke a fever it will leave! I have come to
the point where I know and believe and can
operate in
faith when I speak against a fever, that it
"There are
different kinds
of healings
and different
kinds of
manifestations
of healings"
will abate and it will break immediately.
There are many other manifestations, and a
lot of the time it takes you a while to learn how these manifestations
operate within you, but the gifts of healings is a multi-faceted gift and
it works in different ways in different people.
52Gift of Miracles
53
The gift of miracles is the ability to supercede the natural laws. It is
what Jesus used when He turned the water into wine. The gift of
miracles is going beyond the natural - not using it, but going beyond
the natural. It is creative miracles, like people getting their teeth filled
with gold, a limb being created out of nothing, blind eyes where there
were only empty sockets. Creative acts - this is the gift of miracles.
CHAPTER 11
1The Role of the Trinity in Gifts
2
All of these things are the manifestations of the Spirit. They come
from the Spirit of God. The passage at the beginning of the chapter
gave us the operation and the role of the Father, the Son and the
Holy Spirit in the operation of gifts and ministries. I am going to
share it again.
3
It says, "There are various different gifts, but the same Spirit."
4
We have looked at the various gifts that are manifested by the
Spirit.
5
It says, "There are various different ministries, but the same Lord."
6
Jesus is the author of the ministries. The Spirit is the author of the
gifts.
7
And it says, "There are various different modes of operation, but it
is the same God that operates all of them in all cases."
8
That is where the Father comes in. We will look at this as we go on.
9Body Ministries
10
We have looked at the Spirit, now let's look at where the Son, our
Lord, fits in. The ministries are from the Son. Firstly there are
ministries that are given to the members of the Body. The Scripture
speaks about each member being like a body member, where each
part of your body has a different function to perform. And all those
bodily parts together function as one to form one body.
11
So in Romans 12 it says:
12
6 Having then gifts that vary according to the grace that is given to
us, [we should use them], if prophecy, according to the proportion of
faith;
13
Prophecy is a Body ministry.
14
7 If service, in serving:
15
Servanthood is a Body ministry.
16
7... a teacher, in teaching;
17
Teaching is a Body ministry.
18
8 If an encourager, in exhortation:...
19
Exhortation and encouragement is a Body ministry.
20
8... one that gives, with generosity;
21
Giving to others and meeting their needs is a Body ministry.
22
8... one that rules, with diligence;
23
Ruling, or taking charge, or leading others, is a Body ministry.
24
8... one that shows compassion, with cheerfulness.
25
Ministries of compassion and mercy and taking care of people is a
Body ministry. These are functions that begin to take place in a
person from the moment they are born again. As soon as you become
a believer you have a ministry. I hear people saying, "Well, I do
not know if I have been called to the ministry."
26
"Are you saved? Then you have a ministry."
27
"Well, what is my ministry?"
28
"Have a look at these. Are you doing any of them? Are you wanting
to do any of them? What is it that burns in you? What kind of
compassion do you have? What type of desire do you have to help
others and to take care of them? What kind of function do you want
to perform in the Body of Christ?"
29
The first elements of your ministry in the
Body of Christ will begin to show from the
day you are born again.
30Leadership Ministries
31
Ephesians 4:11 says:
32
11 And he Himself gave some apostles,
and some prophets; and some evangelists;
and some pastors and teachers;
33
"These are
functions that
begin to take
place in a
person from
the moment
they are born
again"
Who gave them? Jesus. It says, "When He
ascended on high He gave gifts to men."
Jesus gave to the Body of Christ the fivefold
ministry of apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher. They are
leadership ministries. Each of them has a different kind of function.
We are not going to have a look at all of them because we are dealing
specifically with the Prophetic Ministry. We have been looking a lot at
the Prophetic Ministry and how it functions, and that is largely what
we will be dealing with here, but this is a specific ministry. It goes
beyond the realm of an ordinary Body ministry into a more
specialized ministry - one that involves a far greater sense of focus
and leadership in the Body.
34Leadership Offices
35
1 Corinthians 12:28 says:
36
28 And God has placed some in the church, firstly apostles,
secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts
of healings, supports, directors, various different tongues.
37
It is interesting that only three of the fivefold ministries are
mentioned specifically. The rest are contained in some of the gifts and
functions and operations. But here we see three distinct ministry
offices that are spoken of - the teacher, the prophet and the apostle.
So we see that it is possible for people to have the ministry of
apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor or teacher. But when it comes to
a ministry office, something that is set by God in the church and
takes a specific place and role of authority, there are three main ones
that tend to fall into those ministry offices in a very distinctive way.
They are the teacher, prophet and the apostle.
38
There is an order of progression here, starting from the bottom first teachers, then prophets, then apostles. It is an upward
progression. Or if you want to look at it from an authority point of
view, then down from the top - first apostles, then prophets and
teachers. There is a level of office that God has set in the church, and
the prophet sits at the second level, one level below the apostle, and
one level above the teacher.
39
You will see that anybody who moves into what we call 'full time
ministry' tends to fall into one or more of those categories. Yes, we
have the evangelists. We have the big evangelists or people who are
classed as evangelists. Most of the time they are not really
evangelists. They are a lot more than that. But of those who call
themselves pastors, the majority of them are actually teachers. They
end up in the Teaching Office, and a lot of them never go any further
than there. But many, God moves up one step further from the
Teaching Office, and He adds to them the Prophetic Office.
Sometimes He takes them one level higher, and He takes them to the
Apostolic Office. We will consider some of these more in detail as we
go on.
40
We have dealt with the Prophetic Office, specifically in a message
all on its own, so I am not going to go into a lot of detail on the
ministry offices. But I want you to see a progression, starting from
the ordinary Body ministries, going into leadership positions, and
moving finally into positions of ministry authority, or what the
Scripture calls ministry offices.
41Role of the Father
42
We come then to the effects of the Father. The Scripture says,
"There are various kinds of operations." There are different ways that
God puts these things together, different ways that they operate in
people. So I want to look at the different operations that take place in
the gifts. This really is the kind of thing that I was looking for when I
wanted to go and buy a book on the gifts of the Spirit. I had a basic
understanding of what the gifts were and how they operated,
although even then I could not really find out as much as what I have
already shared here.
43
But somehow there was more to it. How do I know when I am
operating in a gift? How do I know when the Holy Spirit is manifesting
through me, and how do I come to the place where I can move into
these things? How do I reach out and receive from God the ability to
manifest these so-called gifts of the Spirit?
44Ways of Receiving Revelation
45
There are various different ways of experiencing revelation, and
one of the ways that it is experienced and received is in the mind.
Why? It is because revelation comes up out of the spirit. When God is
going to reveal something to you, He will not reveal it to you
externally. He will reveal it to you internally. It is going to come up
out of your spirit. And
as it comes up out of your spirit it will flow
outwards from your spirit, into your soul and
into your body.
46The Mind
47
The most important part of your soul that
is going to be affected by revelation is your
mind. But how do you receive information in
your mind? And when your mind receives
information, in what form does it receive it?
How do you know that what is coming into
your mind is revelation? How does it come?
Do you hear the voice of God booming out
there? How do you know God is speaking to
you? How do you know He is revealing
something to you?
"When God is
going to reveal
something to
you, He will
not reveal it to
you externally.
He will reveal
it to you
internally."
48
I want you to realize that your mind can
only recognize certain stimuli that it receives, because your mind,
from the moment you were born, even from the moment that you
were conceived, has been receiving input from the outside world. It
receives this via the only means that information can be passed to
you, which is via your five senses. The only things that you know that
you have ever learned in life are what you have seen, what you have
heard, what you have felt, what you have smelt, and what you have
tasted. There is no other way to learn and receive information.
49
So if information is to come up out of your spirit, it will come up in
the same way. It will come up in a form that is related to your five
senses. The most common and the most powerful sense is the sense
of sight. So the most powerful form of revelation that will come to
you will come by vision, by the pictures of your mind. If you are to
receive revelation, whether it be the word of knowledge, the word of
wisdom, or the discerning of spirits, the most powerful way you are
going to receive it is to see something.
50
You say, "Well, I don't get any visions."
51
Close your eyes. Just close your eyes and let your mind roll and tell
me what you see.
52
"I don't see anything. I just see black."
53
No. What do you see in your mind? Not, what do you see with your
eyes. What do you see with your mind? Let it roll. You are probably
going to see a lot of garbage and junk. You will probably see what
you saw on TV last night. But you will see pictures. Now if you will
shut your eyes and shut off the input that is coming from the world
round about you, other pictures are going to rise up in your mind
because your mind is used to seeing things. If it can only see black
now, it wants to see. It will start seeing something, and this will come
up from deep within your spirit.
54
Now, you close your eyes and you sit there and let the pictures
roll. And when you start to see pictures in your mind, I want to tell
you something. You just had a vision. You just received revelation.
55
You say, "But I saw some stupid pictures."
56
You just got revelation. Where did that come from?
57
You say, "But that is not God speaking to me."
58
No, it is your spirit speaking to you. It is information coming up
from your spirit, into your mind via the sense of sight. That is how
you receive visions, and that is how you receive revelation. And when
the Spirit of God imparts revelation to you, what He does is to impart
that revelation into your spirit, and your spirit pops it up into your
mind. That is how simple it is to get revelation.
59
So many folks say, "Well, I do not know how to hear from God."
60
Close your eyes. It is that simple. Revelation will come up out of
your spirit. Now, when God moves upon you by the gifts of revelation,
what will happen is even while your eyes are open, even while you
are praying with someone or are in ministry, a picture will be
imprinted on your mind that comes out of nowhere. And you will say,
"What made me think about that?" It will be a picture of something
perhaps you have never seen. Sometimes it will be a strange picture.
Sometimes it will be a word. But it will always be a symbol, a picture
of something God is trying to say to you out of your spirit.
61
That is how revelation comes. And if you will learn to become
sensitive to the pictures that come up into your mind, and to
recognize when they come up spontaneously under the anointing of
the Holy Spirit, you will start to identify when the Spirit of God is
starting to give revelation.
62
If you see revelation under the word of wisdom, you are going to
have a picture that relates to a person's ministry, to God's purpose in
their life, to something in the future relating to that person. And so as
you pray with somebody you may see a picture, and you may see
that person standing on a stage behind a pulpit with a Bible in their
hand. God is saying to you, "I am going to use that person and they
will minister My word one day." That is the word of wisdom. It comes
to you that simply. You get a picture in your mind. That is a vision.
63
Do you know how many people operate in these things and do not
know it? I find all the time as I ask people, "Have you ever had a
vision?" they say, "Well, I don't ever really remember receiving a
vision," because we have this idea that a vision is like this:
64
Tada!
65
The anointing comes on you
66
The world fades away
67
You go into a trance.
68
You are caught up in the heavenly realm.
69
These pictures flash before you.
70
Well, some people do get it that way. But it is not that common.
We make it too spiritual. We make it too complicated. We make it as
though God is going to pull us out of our bodies and force it on us! He
does not work that way. He does not impose on us and He does not
force Himself on us. He simply imparts it into our spirits. And as you
learn to receive what comes up out of your spirit, you receive the
revelation.
71Sense of Hearing
72
You say, "Well, I am not a visual sort of person. I do not normally
see things."
73
It could be that you are the sort of person that receives stimuli
from within your spirit, not so much via the sense of sight, but via
some of the other senses. Perhaps you have a very well developed
sense of hearing, like a person who has lost their eyesight and has
become blind, relies on their hearing. The hearing becomes very
acute and sensitive, and they can pick up and detect, and almost see
with their ears.
74
It could be that you hear voices. It could be that you 'hear'
something come up in your mind, almost as though somebody is
speaking to you. You can hear sounds, not audibly, but deep within.
Try it. Get into a quiet place. Close your eyes. Shut off the senses,
and
see if you can hear something. It could be
that God is speaking to you via your sense of
hearing.
75Sense of Smell
76
How about the sense of smell? Have you
ever smelt something in the Spirit? Have you
ever thought a smell? Come on, think roses.
Can you smell them? Maybe you battled with
that one, but some people do not. They
smell better than they see and hear. God
can give revelation that comes up with the
sense of smell and you can smell something
in the air. You can smell a sweet smell, or
you can smell a bad smell, and God can
reveal something to you via your sense of
smell.
"It could be
that you 'hear'
something
come up in
your mind,
almost as
though
somebody is
speaking to
you."
77Sense of Taste
78
I do not think that this is common either. But since we tend to
confuse taste with smell, it is probably why we seldom detect it. What
is the sense of taste? It includes things like sweet and bitter and sour
and salty. Have you ever tasted something salty in the Spirit? Have
you ever, in the Spirit, sensed a bitterness in your mouth, or a sense
of intense sweetness, or sour? I had never really thought about this
myself until I began to look at this subject. I think a lot of the time
we are receiving revelation and not identifying it, because we assume
these things are natural. It is your natural senses, and you are
saying, "I must be making this up. This is nuts. Why am I feeling this
strange feeling in my mouth? I haven't eaten anything."
79
The Spirit of God could be revealing something to you. Perhaps you
are ministering to someone and there is bitterness in their life and
you taste bitterness. It can happen. Be sensitive to how God is going
to work in you. There are various different kinds of operations and
God will operate in different people in different ways.
80Sense of Touch
81
How about the sense of touch? I have heard people say, "Well, I
have never seen an angel or a demon, but sometimes I feel
something brush past me. I can feel something in the Spirit." Your
sense of touch is more finely tuned and developed than the others
and you can pick up something in the Spirit.
82
There are many people who operate in the gift of knowledge by
actually feeling something physically in their body. They will feel a
pain in a part of their body. The Spirit of God is actually saying,
"There is somebody in this meeting tonight who has that exact pain in
their body." You can stand up and describe what you are feeling, and
it is a word of knowledge by the sense of touch. You are actually
feeling it in your body. God is revealing to you something that
specifically exists in someone.
83Emotions
84
The soul consists of more than just the mind. It also contains the
emotions and the will, and there is an emotional revelation that takes
place.
85
You say, "Well, we don't go by our feelings." It is common teaching
in some circles that, "You are not supposed to receive revelation by
feelings, because you cannot rely on your emotions. You cannot trust
them. You can't go by what you are feeling."
86
But I want to tell you that when revelation comes up into your
spirit, it may come with an emotional assurance. It may come with a
feeling. It may come with an inner knowing ... "I know that I know
that I know."
87
As you are praying with somebody you can know what is going on
inside of them because you can feel it in your emotions. You can
sense what is happening. You can feel the turmoil in them. You can
feel the churning in their spirit. You can feel the knot in your stomach
and you know what is going on inside of them. You can sense the fear
in them. You can sense the yearning that they have within them. You
can feel with your emotions.
88
The gifts of revelation can operate in that exact same way in your
emotions, and you might not understand it. "Why am I feeling this?
This is weird. The moment I started to pray with this person I started
to feel uncomfortable. I started to feel afraid. I began to feel guilty.
What is wrong with me?" The gift of revelation is operating in you via
your emotions. Learn to recognize it. It is coming up into the soul and
manifesting itself.
89The Will
90
Sometimes the anointing also manifests via the will. How do we
draw things out of our spirits using our will? By words. When you
open your mouth to speak by an act of your will, you are actually
pouring out what is in your spirit. Words come up from within the
spirit.
Only man has the ability to speak words in a
language. Animals do not have that because
animals do not have a spirit. Spirit produces
words.
91Words
92
God, by His Spirit produced words when
He spoke in the creation, and sometimes
people actually receive words by revelation.
It happens when you give a prophetic word
sometimes, doesn't it? The Spirit of God
rises up within you, and instead of a picture
or a feeling, you get one little sentence,
"Thus saith the Lord, You shall..."
93
"Shall what?"
94
He just gives you the first words and says,
"When you
open your
mouth to speak
by an act of
your will, you
are actually
pouring out
what is in your
spirit."
"Okay, here we go. Say after me."
95
"Lord, give me a little bit more."
96
He says, "You won't remember that much. I will give you one
phrase at a time."
97
Well maybe if you are the kind of person who can remember ten
sentences at a time the Lord will give it to you, but most of us can
only remember one little phrase at a time. If you have to take
dictation, you are going to have to take it nice and slow. And so the
Holy Spirit says, "Get out pen and paper. Dictation time. Start here."
98
You say, "Well what am I going to say?"
99
"Just say what I tell you to say."
100
"Well, umm, what happens if I get it all wrong?"
101
"You will have to trust me on this one."
102
Words. Sometimes you may receive only one word that comes
into your mind. Sometimes a phrase comes into your mind,
something small. It is a piece of revelation coming up out of your
spirit via your will and coming out as words. These are all ways the
Spirit of God can move upon you. And if you will sit down and take
note, if you will listen and watch carefully and see what happens in
your spirit, you will begin to realize that you have been exercising
gifts of revelation for a long time.
103
Perhaps you have been praying and saying, "Lord, I wish you
would use me. Lord, I wish you would reveal things to me."
104
And He is saying, "Are you deaf? I have been doing it all along."
105 "Yes, well I thought I would hear this voice booming out of
heaven. I thought I would go into a trance and begin to shake under
the power."
106
Well you obviously thought wrong. The Holy Spirit can move in
various different ways. And because someone else sees visions when
they shake under the power and fall under the power and go into a
trance, it does not mean the Holy Spirit is going to use you that way.
It does not mean that they are more spiritual than you because they
received revelation that way. In fact it might be because they are so
deaf that He has to get their attention by shaking them.
107
Maybe you are more in tune with the Spirit, so He does not have
to shake you, because you are able to hear clearly. If I have to take
my son and shake the truth into him and say, "Can you hear me?" he
is not being very obedient is he? But if I speak to him gently and say,
"John, here, go do this," and he says, "Yes, Dad," then I think I am a
lot happier with him than if I have to grab him by the scruff of his
neck and try to 'brain' it into him.
108
So do not feel insecure if you are not hearing these things in great
big power. When Elisha first receive the mantle of Elijah he was
ignorant. He was still just a baby prophet, and he took that big
mantle and stood by the River Jordan and said, "Where is the God of
Elijah?!" and he went (tada) like Elijah did. God felt sorry for him and
made the waters part just to humor the guy.
109
But much later, when Elisha knew how to flow in the prophetic
gifts he just sat there and he knew. He said, "Would you go and lock
the doors, please. The king has just sent somebody to kill me." He
said to his servant, "What is your problem? There are angels all
around. Lord, open his eyes." No big performance, no big anything.
He learned to hear the voice of God. You too can learn to hear the
voice of God gently, gently, gently. He does not have to shout at you.
You will hear His voice when He whispers, and you will know it is Him.
You will learn to know how He moves in revelation in you. You will
learn to know
whether you receive more easily through sight or sound or any of the
other senses. You will also learn to detect those changes in your
emotions and the words that pop into your mind.
110Power Gifts
111
How do we experience the power gifts? The power gifts are
something very different. They are a release of spiritual energy.
Where does it come from?
112
"Well, the anointing came upon me and I
could feel it!"
113
Yes, it is great when that happens. But
the power does not come from outside. It
comes from inside, because the Spirit of God
is in your spirit. And if the Spirit of God is to
release His power through you, He will
release it flowing out from your spirit firstly,
and then outwards.
"You will hear
His voice
when He
whispers, and
you will know
it is Him."
CHAPTER 12
1Internal and External Manifestations
2
I want to look quickly at two aspects of the power gifts and how
they manifest. There is an internal manifestation and there is an
external manifestation. Again, people confuse these two and they
seem to think that they must have an external manifestation before
they can operate in the power gifts.
3
"Well, I have to feel something. I have to feel the healing power go
through my hands."
4
Not always. Not necessarily. Yes, it could be there, but the anointing
comes, firstly from within. Jesus, speaking of the Holy Spirit that
would come said, "Out of your innermost being (out of your belly) will
flow rivers of living water."
5
What was He speaking about? He was speaking about the anointing
of the Spirit of God that is within you; that Spirit that you received at
salvation, which flows out of you and begins to manifest. That is what
we said at the beginning about the manifestation of the Spirit. If the
Spirit is going to manifest Himself through the power gifts, it will
show the same way. It will come from within you and pour out of you
in manifestation and power.
6From the Belly
7
How will you know it is there? You will probably feel it in your belly,
because out of your innermost being, out of your belly, shall flow
rivers of living water. Have you ever felt it, when the power comes
upon you and something begins to take place within you, and there
comes this surge of power that seems to pull on your stomach
muscles? It is deep down in your gut. You cannot explain it, but it is
deep down in your belly. It is coming up from deep
within and is gushing. There is water that is just bursting to come out
there. All you need to do is to open the pipe
and let it flow.
8
But do you know what people do? They lay
hands on someone and say, "Lord, heal," but
they keep the anointing inside. They shut it
up. They tighten their stomach muscles and
just leave it there. It is gushing, it is
bursting to come forth and you want to pray
and say, "Lord, come down and heal the
person."
9
God is saying, "It is in you. Let it out!"
10
You are saying, "Lord, come and heal.
Come and move in your power."
11
And God is saying, "Let it out. It is in your
belly."
12
All you really need to do is to recognize
that surge of power that comes up from
within you, and by an act of faith open the
tap. All you need to do is reach out and say,
"Okay," and let it out.
"the power
comes upon
you and
something
begins to take
place within
you, and there
comes this
surge of power
that seems to
pull on your
stomach
muscles"
13Releasing the Anointing from Within
14
Have you seen those who move in such a ministry that they have
the ability to pray and release the anointing at a specific point in
time? Have you seen preachers that come and lay hands on folks,
pray with them and share with them, and then say, "Okay, here's the
anointing," and you see the power of God come on them? Why?
Because they have learned how to throw the switch. They have
learned how to open the tap. They have learned how to take that
surge of power that is coming up from within their spirit, and by an
act of their will, at the right point in time, release it forth. That is how
the power gifts operate. They come from deep within.
15External Manifestations
16
There are also external manifestations that take place, and there
are many of them. One of the external manifestations and the most
common, particularly where healing is concerned, is an intense sense
of heat in one's hands. Or maybe a sense of power going through
your hands like you had taken hold of the electricity supply, and you
can sense waves of power coming through you. These are external
manifestations. Sometimes there is a feeling of a mantle that has
come down upon you that seems to come all over your body, and you
can feel it. You know when that comes upon you that the anointing
power of God is upon you, and you can minister forth now. You know
when you pray with people, you are going to see results. These are
external manifestations of the gifts of power.
17 Prophetic Use of the Gifts
18
How does the prophet use all of these gifts? How does he use the
vocal gifts? Let's go through them fairly quickly. How does the
prophet use the gift of tongues? One of the major functions and
operations of the prophet is the ministry of intercession. It is the
ministry by which God places within and upon the prophet a stimulus,
an impartation, a move, a burden to reach out and to speak into the
air, into the earth, in prayer, in intercession, on behalf of somebody
else.
19Intercession
20
The Scripture speaks about "the Spirit interceding for us, with
groanings that cannot be uttered." Deep groanings within, a deep
burden within, where you just know that God wants to do something,
where you know that there is somebody out there that has a need,
and you do not know who it is because God has not showed you who
to pray for. But the Spirit is moving upon you that there is a need to
pray. And the only thing that you can do at a time like that is to open
your mouth in tongues, and to say, "Father, inspire me in the Spirit to
pray the words that need to be prayed." You need to speak forth
words into the earth, but you do not know what words to speak forth,
so you speak them forth in the Spirit by tongues.
21
Sometimes what you speak forth is actually issuing a kind of a
decree in the Spirit. When the Spirit of God comes upon you
spontaneously, a surge of power begins to rise up within you, and you
find yourself praying out loudly and fervently in tongues, sometimes
for long periods of time. So you pray and you pray until that burden
lifts, and very often what you are actually doing is you are releasing
the Word of God. You are releasing the decree of God into the earth.
We will look at some of this in our teaching on the ministry of
intercession, so I am not going to go into a lot of detail on it.
22
Sometimes also, the prophet needs to come against spiritual
powers by getting into spiritual warfare, which is also a subject that
we cover further. So tongues very often becomes an instrument that
you can use to come against the enemy, to rebuke and to speak forth
and resist him. Don't ever think that Satan does not understand
tongues. The Scripture speaks about tongues as being "the tongues
of men and of angels." Satan was an angel. Trust me, he can
understand when you speak to him in tongues. He understands only
too well. And usually if you lay it on him, he will get his tail between
his legs and get running when you come against him using the gift of
tongues.
23Interpretation of Tongues
24
Interpretation is very important to the prophet. Why? Because so
often you are praying in tongues and you do not know what you are
praying for. Sometimes you need to know what you are praying for.
So you can come in intercession and you can pray in tongues and
then you can pray in English. Paul says, "I will pray with my spirit,
and I will pray with my understanding." If you learn to flow between
the two you will find that you will be able to be inspired by the Spirit
to pray and intercede in tongues. You will also be able to interpret
what you have prayed in tongues, know with your mind and be able
to intelligently participate in your intercession, knowing what it is that
you are praying in tongues.
25
You may need to receive personal revelation in interpreting your
own tongues. God can speak a message, an utterance and a word to
you personally. He will give you personal utterances and personal
interpretations of those utterances as a word of direction and
guidance to you. I have covered this elsewhere so I will not elaborate
on it here.
26
Sometimes you can even use the gift of tongues and interpretation
together when you are ministering to somebody else. This is
particularly useful if you have not developed the confidence to
prophesy, or to give specific directive prophecy and prophetic words
over people. You will find that you will pray with somebody, and as
you are praying the Spirit of God will rise up within you
spontaneously, and you will give an utterance over the person. While
you are praying in tongues you can put your mind in gear, and start
receiving the interpretation.
27
I found out that I did that for a long time before I had the
confidence to prophesy over people in English. I would pray and
speak over them in tongues, then I would interpret my tongue and it
would become a prophetic word. It also allows you to receive a word
very spontaneously while you are praying with a person. As you are
praying and using tongues to flow in the Spirit, you will find that
sometimes it comes spontaneously out of your spirit,
and a surge of power comes forth. Then you
are able to interpret your tongue, and
sometimes even interpret what you prayed
over the person in the Spirit, and so minister
to them prophetically.
28Prophecy
29
Prophecy is usually speaking a word of
exhortation and encouragement, or speaking
forth a word of wisdom, or whatever God
gives you over the person. But prophecy can
also be used in prayer, where you pray
something through prophecy. Have you ever
done that? Have you ever started to pray
and you find that the very words that you
are praying start to carry an extra anointing
on them? You find that instead of praying,
"I would pray
and speak over
them in
tongues, then I
would
interpret my
tongue and it
would become
a prophetic
word."
"Lord, I pray that you will do this...", you
end up praying, "The Lord shall do it." It
turns into a prophecy. Instead of being a prayer and a request to the
Lord, the Spirit of God comes up and says, "Yes, right on. I am going
to do it!" So you speak it forth in prophecy, and instead of requesting
something, you are actually declaring it.
30Prophetic Decree
31
This is where the prophet speaks forth into the earth. He does not
simply give the word to a person, but actually, by prophecy, speaks
into existence the very thing that he is prophesying. It is so important
where you prophesy over a person, that your prophetic word is not,
"Well, the Lord is going to do this, and the Lord wants to do that." It
becomes a case of, once God has given that revelation to you as a
prophet, you actually declare that thing forth, and you speak it over
the person. So you begin to prophetically pray over that person and
speak that thing into existence to release into the earth what God has
shown you He wants to do in the life of that person. That again falls
in the realm of the prophetic key, which we cover elsewhere.
32
Then there is directive prophecy, where God gives a directive word
to a person. The Lord will say specifically something like, "You have
thought this in your heart and you have planned that. And the Lord
would say to you, 'You shall go forth and you shall do what is in your
heart...' " So you start to give direction to the person. You indicate to
the person what God's plan and purpose is for their life. You speak
forth a word of wisdom over the person by prophecy.
33Gifts of Revelation
34
How does the prophet use the gifts of revelation? Why does God
reveal words of knowledge to a prophet? What is the purpose for it?
Why does God want to show you something about somebody else?
Just so you can know something more about them? Just so you can
say, "I know something about you?" God gives it for a reason. He
showed you something about their past, or something concerning
their present circumstances, so that you can do something with that
knowledge. Well, why would God want to reveal these things to you?
35
He will reveal something from the person's past when you come to
minister healing from the hurts of the past. Ministering inner healing
is also a major area of ministry in the prophetic. You need to speak
deliverance and victory into that person, and God is going to reveal to
you something about the person's past. As you are praying, you may
see a picture, and you may see that person at a certain age. You will
see say a young child and you will say, "You are about ten, twelve
years old." You may have to assess it in the Spirit from the picture
you are given. Then you say to the person, "Tell me what happened
during that part of your life."
36
The Spirit of God may give you more specific and direct knowledge
where you will actually know what happened in that person's life.
What is this for? So you can begin to reach in and minister into that
area of a person's life. God reveals to you what happened to that
person. He shows you circumstances that exist in the person's life
right now, and you might see that there is another person involved
here. You could see a person being pulled by somebody else. God is
saying, "There is a tie here that needs to be cut. Cut it in the Spirit."
So the prophet speaks forth and cuts that tie in the Spirit. God is
revealing to you things about the person, not just for information, but
that you may act on it as a prophet of God.
37
Sometimes God wants you to tell the person what to do in their
current circumstances. Perhaps the person may be in the throes of a
decision. It may be concerning their work situation, their church, or
their ministry. God will show you their present circumstances, and
indicate to you a difficulty and a problem that they are having, so you
can them give counsel. The counsel that you give may not even come
by prophetic word. It may not be a word of wisdom. It may just be
common sense. But how can you counsel a person concerning a
problem if you do not know what their problem is?
38In Counseling
39
You may get together with somebody who is having problems in
their marriage. You could go through all the counseling methods and
techniques, and still not break through. Then you pray, and God
shows you the exact problem that exists in that situation. Now you
know where to zero in. So you take the Word and you go in, and you
apply the Word in counsel. The prophet needs to learn to use
common sense. If God gives you a revelation, He has given it to you
that you may profit from it, that you may benefit from it, and that
you may effectively carry out the ministry that He has given you.
40
A lot of people do not know what to do with a revelation. They
receive a revelation in the middle of a meeting and think they need to
stand up and interrupt the meeting and say, "God has revealed this to
me." Not necessarily. He might want you do that, but then you had
better have some courage to be able to do it. Obviously when God
gives you a
revelation, He wants you to take that
revelation and do something about it. Part of
what He wants you to do about it may
simply be to go forth and pray. Suppose God
gives you a revelation and you see a vision,
a picture of an auto wreck and somebody
getting killed.
41
"Well, I have got to go and tell this person
he is going to die."
42
"They receive
a revelation in
the middle of a
meeting and
think they need
to stand up
and interrupt
the meeting"
Do not be foolish! God gave you that
revelation for a specific purpose, and usually
that purpose is for you to use that prophetic
authority and the key that God has given
you to speak forth a word that will prevent
that thing from taking place. As God's
prophets we need to learn to use wisdom,
and to know how to use the revelations that He gives us.
43Word of Wisdom
44
The word of wisdom deals with a future hope. It deals with giving
the person an insight into the future. The person is praying and
seeking God about something. They have a desire in their hearts, and
the prophet receives a word from the Lord that says:
45
"That desire in your heart, I want you to know it is of me, and I will
fulfil it."
46
"Do not worry, you are not going to be alone anymore. You will
find that husband you are looking for. It is going to fall into place."
47
"You are not going to be poor forever. I will bless you and prosper
you financially in the future."
48
"You know that car that you have been believing for? You are going
to drive it still."
49
It is a future hope, something for you to hang onto. It is something
for you to reach ahead for, and to continue to believe and trust God
for. God gives directive words by the word of wisdom, where the
person is beginning to wonder, "Now what has God called me to be?
Am I a teacher? Am I a prophet? Am I an evangelist? What does God
want me to do?" God can give a word of wisdom by the prophet that
says, "I have called you to do this. I have shown you to do that."
CHAPTER 13
1Identifying Ministries
2
I find very often when I minister with people, God will show me an
object to give to the person. I can tell from the object what kind of
ministry they will have. But that is how He gives it to me. He may
give it to another prophet a different way. The important thing is He
has given you a direction, a word of wisdom for that person, that you
can speak to the person and give them a direction, a path to run on,
and an indication of God's plan and purpose for their lives. I would
say it is the most valuable gift and the most powerful one that
operates in the ministry of the prophet.
3Warning
4 There is also prophetic warning. Those are not nice ones are they?
Prophetic warning is where the Lord says, "The path that you are
walking on is going to be full of thorns and thistles. The way that you
are going on will have problems." You see a picture of another path
coming forth, and the Lord says, "Stop travelling on the road that you
are on, because that road is going to lead to destruction. Now you
must take a turn, you must change, and you must go on a detour."
5
It is a warning of what is up ahead. The prophet Agabus in the New
Testament gave a warning that a famine was to come into the world,
so that the Church could act on it. It was so that they could take up
an offering and a collection, and help financially the people that would
be affected by that famine. The prophet must speak forth the word of
warning when God gives it.
6Discerning of Spirits
7
The gift of discerning of spirits operates in different ways. The first
manifestation that I ever experienced of this gift was one that I have
not heard of much or seen much, so I am going to share it here in
case anyone has experienced it in the same way. Around the time
that I first received the anointing of the Spirit of God, I received a
manifestation in my hands. It felt as though I had taken hold of the
electric power, and I could feel a surge going through my hands. It
was so strong that it actually physically felt like I had taken hold of
the mains. The muscles and the nerves in my hands were actually
pulling up so that
they were pulled together. Afterwards my
muscles were even hurting from the way
that it had pulled.
8
I thought, "Wow what is this? Whatever it
is, it is powerful." It felt like the power of
God was going through me. I found
afterwards, as we would get together in
prayer with various people, sometimes
during prayer I would feel this anointing
come in my hands and arms once again. I
thought, "Wow, this is raw power! I feel like
I have just taken hold of God's main power.
There must be something awesome here." I
figured that if I were to lay hands on
someone, something would happen. I
thought, "It must be the power of healing."
"It felt as
though I had
taken hold of
the electric
power, and I
could feel a
surge going
through my
hands."
9
So every time I was in a meeting I would
find people that were sick and I would begin
to lay hands on them to see if they would be healed, but nobody got
healed. I figured, "It can't be healing then. But it is powerful.
Somebody surely will feel it." So I figured that maybe it was for the
baptism in the Spirit. I decided, "Maybe if I lay hands on people they
will start to speak in tongues. The power of God will come on them
and they will receive the anointing."
10
So I began to look for people who had not experienced the baptism
in the Spirit, and I began to lay hands on them. But nobody received
anything.
11
"Man it is so strong! Can't you feel it?"
12
"Nope."
13
"Can't you feel anything?"
14
"Nope."
15
I was confused. I began to tell people about this and they said,
"You're paranoid. You keep going on about it. You are just feeling the
presence of God. Just forget it." But it was so strong I wanted to do
something with it.
16
I said, "Lord, what is this? I don't know what it is."
17
I began to cry out. I began to read the books. There were no books
on the gifts of the Spirit anyway, so that was not much help to me.
There was nobody out there that could tell me what it was. I would
speak to everybody who had operated in the gifts of the Spirit and
they would say, "Well, the gift of healing... normally you get a heat
in your hand. No, I have never heard of that one." So what do I do?
18
God finally led me to find a book written by a famous evangelist
who lived in the early part of the century called William Branham. He
began to describe in this little booklet that I had found, the gift that
God had given to him. He was a man who was used mightily as a
prophet of God, and he was used in gifts of healing. He said, "When I
come to lay hands on somebody and there is a demon associated with
the sickness or disease, a reaction begins to take place in my hands,
where the Spirit of God within me begins to set up a reaction against
the demon spirit." He said, "I can feel it in my hands, and it feels as
though I have taken hold of the mains."
19
I thought, "Yes, that sounds about right. That's what I am feeling."
He said the power was so strong it would stop his watch. I had never
had that one. But that was it. I began to think, "Hold it. Maybe that is
what is happening." And my mind went back to a time in one of the
meetings, where I felt this anointing and felt led to go and pray for a
young lady that I thought needed the anointing of the Spirit, and she
got up and ran out of the meeting. Well, that really inspired
confidence in me at the time! But I began to look back and think,
"Hold it. Why did I feel that? If this is the Spirit of God within me,
reacting against the demon spirit, then there was a demon present.
Could it be that that young girl was under bondage to a demon, and
when I came to pray with her the demon reared up and made her run
out?"
20
So I began to look to the Lord for confirmation, and He gave it to
me. The church that we were in at the time began to have demon
manifestations, where people would come up for prayer and they
would fall down, but not under the power of the Holy Spirit. They
would fall down and squirm all over the floor like snakes and hiss, and
the demon would talk back through the person. The preacher would
argue and fight with the demon and say, "Satan come out!" And the
demon would say, "No, I won't. She is mine."
21
God led me one night to pray with such a person, and as I laid
hands on this person the demon manifested. Then as the demon
manifested, the anointing came into my hands. The Lord confirmed to
me exactly what I was feeling. Every book I had read said you do not
touch someone when they are demon possessed. You do not bring
deliverance by the laying on of hands. Well, I did! I defied the rules.
You see it was a different kind of manifestation. It was a different
mode of operation. It was something different to the norm. But the
Spirit of God showed me that that was what I was detecting and
discerning in the Spirit.
22
At one stage I came under attack, where I opened the door to a
spirit of fear that began to plague me day and night, twenty four
hours a day. I have shared this experience in another place. I
remember that during that period the one night in a meeting, the
Spirit of God and the anointing of God came upon me, and that
anointing came down, not only on my hands, but it began to come
down onto my arms. I felt it come onto my head and into my chest,
until eventually my whole body was tingling with this power that was
going through it. I realized that what had actually happened is, the
demon spirit had come into
my body, and the Spirit of God was raising a standard against the
demon within me. That is why I was feeling it throughout my entire
being.
23
God gave me more confirmation as I prayed for a relative who was
dying of cancer. As I laid hands on her and prayed, the anointing
power of God came down upon her and she
felt that exact same thing. She felt the
power, which she thought was the anointing,
but she began to feel this tingling all over
her body. She thought it was the anointing
of God that had come from me as I prayed
for her. I realized afterwards what it was
that she was actually experiencing, because
that demon of cancer eventually took her
life. The Spirit of God was raising up a
standard against the demon that was in her.
24
"I felt it come
onto my head
and into my
chest, until
eventually my
whole body
was tingling
with this
power that
was going
through it."
Over a period of time I learned how to use
that gift, but as time went on the power
began to wane, and it was not so strong any
more. Then, as I would come to pray, I
would just feel a gentle surge in my hands.
But I knew there was a demon power here.
There was a spiritual force at work. And
even now that gift still operates in that way.
A gentle surge of power in my hands, and I
know. There are other manifestations that I
have in my hands that I have experienced. I
have experienced the power of healing, but this is a specific
manifestation. I have shared this for the benefit of anybody who may
have had something similar and you do not know what is going on.
25Impartation
26
If you have been associated with us in ministry, and you received
some kind of impartation from us, the chances are you may begin to
experience some of the manifestations from my spirit by impartation.
That is a wonderful subject, which we are still going to look at as well.
But it could be that those things begin to show.
27
I have found as I have ministered to people and imparted to them
by the Spirit, very often I have seen them operate in the gifts and
some of the manifestations. And some of the modes of operation that
they begin to experience are exactly the same as what I have seen in
my own ministry. Some of the unique ways that God tends to
manifest His Spirit in me that I have not seen in others, I see
immediately begin to manifest in some of those that I have shared an
impartation with.
28
The Spirit of God is so exciting and so varied isn't He? There are
such a host of different operations that can take place. But the gift of
discerning of spirits is just one manifestation. The other manifestation
is the sense of detecting evil, and I can feel it when I come into the
presence of a person. I have learned to detect not only the presence
of demons, but I have also learned to detect the very condition of a
person's spirit. I can even detect a person's anointing and spirit from
their words.
29
When I speak to such a person on the phone, I begin to sense this
the moment they speak words to me. I can sense deep within,
sometimes nervousness in the pit of my stomach. There sometimes
comes a sense down the back of my neck where I know something is
wrong, and I know there is a spiritual bondage. Something is wrong
in the life of this person. I sense it when I receive their letters,
whether it be written out by hand on physical paper, or whether it
comes by email over the Internet. The moment I read those words
that came forth from their spirit, I begin to detect the sense of the
spirit that is within it.
30
I start to detect when I pick up certain objects that they have a
spiritual contamination in them; that they have been in places where
they have been contaminated and have come under a curse. These
all operate by the gift of discerning of spirits.
31
Then there comes the visual manifestation of discerning of spirits,
where you see into the Spirit, and you begin to see evil powers.
32
You say, "Well, a spirit doesn't have a form does it?" No, a spirit
does not have a form. So what you see by the gift of discerning of
spirits is not what the demon really looks like. What you are actually
seeing is a picture that has been given to you to illustrate what kind
of evil power you are dealing with. I have learned to detect what level
of demon I am dealing with in the Spirit by what kind of creature I
see. Each different level of demon I see is symbolized by a different
creature. When I come to dealing with spirits of infirmity, I often see
them as different types of insects. And according to what type of
insect, or creature, or animal I see, I can often detect what Satan is
doing in the life of a person.
33
This applies to angels too, because angels are also spirits, the
Scripture says. We see spirit beings in the Spirit also, by the gift of
discerning of spirits. So you see the different types of angels, and the
different levels of angels, and you see angelic operations taking place
in the Spirit.
34
You might ask, "What is the purpose of all of this?"
35
It is important that you have revelation when you are ministering
to somebody. If you are to minister to somebody, and God has
revealed to you by the gift of discerning of spirits that there is a
spiritual bondage or curse in the life of that person, you need to be
able to get in there and identify where that curse comes from. It can
then be removed so that the person can be set free.
36
The prophet needs to know. It ties in with the other revelation
gifts. It ties in with the word of knowledge, of past and present
situations. It ties in with the word of wisdom, and the purpose that
God wants to accomplish in the person. It ties in as to why the person
is suffering sickness and disease, why they have had bad luck all their
lives, and why they are battling financially. The prophet needs
revelation about all the problems that a person
has. Sometimes you need to detect where
the evil is coming in, so the gift of discerning
of spirits is a very vital gift in the Prophetic
Ministry.
37Gift of Faith
38
What is the gift of faith and how does it
function? We saw that the gift of faith is the
ability to know without a doubt. It is a gift
that has to be released into the earth. The
Scripture says, "Faith comes by hearing, and
hearing by the rhema of God." What is a
rhema? A rhema is an active word. Logos is
"It ties in as to
why the person
is suffering
sickness and
disease, why
they have had
bad luck all
the written word. The words that I speak are
rhema. They are active, original and unique.
If I write them down and you can read them
afterwards over and over again they are a
logos word ... like the text that you are
reading right now.
their lives, and
why they are
battling
financially."
39Rhema Words
40
When God gives a rhema Word, He intends for that Word be
spoken into the earth. When God gives the prophet a rhema He does
not give it for his information. He gives it because the prophet is His
spokesman in the earth. Isaiah 55:11 says:
41
11 So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall
not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish what I desire, and it
shall succeed [in the thing] for which I sent it.
42
Until it is sent forth, it cannot accomplish that for which it is sent.
If God puts His Word in you as a prophet, it has not yet gone into the
earth. It has only gone into your spirit. You as the prophet of God
have to take that rhema Word and release it and speak it forth into
the earth. When you do that you are releasing the faith that was
generated in you by that rhema Word.
43
So the gift of faith is absolutely vital to the ministry of a prophet.
You will see prophets that will prophesy over somebody and say,
"Thus saith the Lord..." and they will prophesy and give a word of
direction, and the person sits and waits for the manifestation of what
the prophet has predicted. But it never takes place.
44
Why? It is because it was not sent forth into the earth. It was not
spoken into existence.
45
When the prophets in time past in the Old Testament gave a
prediction, they did not just give a prediction. They did not say, "Well,
one day a virgin is going to conceive, and bear a child, and His name
shall be called Emmanuel." They were doing a lot more than that.
They were saying, "There will be a conception. A virgin will conceive.
His name will be called Emmanuel." They were declaring it forth,
writing it down and making it concrete in the earth.
46
The prophet of God needs to do more than just say, "Well God has
revealed to Me He is going to do this to you." The prophet must open
his mouth and use his key. He needs to speak forth and say, "Thus
saith the Lord this is going to happen!" The prophet must call it forth.
He must say, "I declare into the earth. I call you blessed. I call you
prosperous. I declare that you shall enter into what God has done."
47
When God says what He is going to do, the prophet needs to speak
it forth. He needs to declare it and release that gift of faith. Then
when that gift of faith is released and goes forth into the earth it
accomplishes, just like the early patriarchs did as they laid their
hands on their sons. As Isaac blessed Jacob he spoke over him and
said, "You shall be blessed, and your brother shall serve you. You
shall be prosperous." He spoke forth the word of faith, and when he
spoke it and declared it forth, there was nothing that could stop it,
not even he himself.
48
Prophet of God, if you are only receiving revelations and sharing
them with people, you are accomplishing nothing. People are going to
turn to you and say, "Well why did I not see the manifestation of
what you prophesied? You predicted this was going to happen to me
and it didn't happen." You will have to do more than predict. You will
have to decree, and you are going to do that by the gift of faith. You
need to speak forth by the prophetic word into the earth. You need to
take the key to unlock God's power, to use the authority that He has
put in you as a prophet, to declare and to create that thing, and to
speak it into existence into the earth.
49Gift of Healing
50
What about the other power gifts? The other power gifts actually
are not a major manifestation in the prophet. They can be there. The
gift of healing has a limited function in the prophet. And when the
prophet moves in the ministry of healing, you will find that he is
usually not dealing so much with a gift of healing as he is with
uncovering spiritual problems that are causing sickness and disease.
51
The prophet will identify and recognize, by revelation, areas and
inroads into a person's life that Satan has, that are causing that
person to be affected physically with sickness and disease. The
prophet will expose the curses. He will expose the family generational
bondages. He will expose the areas where Satan is getting in, and he
will be able to identify it by the gift of discerning of spirits. He will be
able to counsel and help that person break free. Then when that
person breaks free, automatically he will burst forth into the natural
healing that is in the body.
52
When it comes to the miraculous, the gift of miracles is a sign
ministry. So, for the prophet the vocal gifts are important. The
revelation gifts are vital. The power gifts are an added extra. Yes, the
prophets of the Old Testament manifested all of them. But it does not
mean that the New Testament prophet is going to manifest all of
them. All of us can manifest all of them, but there are gifts that play
a major role in the life of the prophet.
53
The realm where the power gifts tend to play a major role is not in
the ministry of the prophet, but in the ministry of the apostle. So
when somebody moves beyond the Prophetic Ministry and into the
Apostolic Ministry, you will see that not only the vocal and revelation
gifts are in manifestation, but the power gifts begin to come into
manifestation as well. We will cover that in a lot of detail in studying
the ministry of the apostle.
54Essential Gifts
55
In conclusion, I would like to zero in on the prophet. What gifts are
essential for a person to function as a prophet? How do you recognize
a prophet from his gifts? How can you tell that a person is a prophet?
Just by revelation? Just by a person standing up and saying, "Well,
somebody came to me in 1923 and said to me, 'God has called you to
be a prophet,' so I know I am a prophet."
56
No, there will be signs there, and we have looked at that already.
But there are some
gifts that will be very clear and manifested in the prophet. The
obvious one is the gift of prophecy. If you are going to be a prophet,
surely you must be speaking the prophetic
word? If you are a prophet of God you
should be exercising the gift of prophecy.
57
"Well,
somebody
came to me in
1923 and said
to me, 'God
has called you
to be a
prophet,' so I
know I am a
prophet."
And the word of wisdom? The word of
wisdom actually has to do with foretelling. A
prophet cannot function without the gift of
the word of wisdom. It has to have a future
orientation in it, otherwise you are not a
prophet of God. The prophet usually has the
word of knowledge. I would say the word of
wisdom is the more important one, though.
But usually if you move into the word of
wisdom, you will have the word of
knowledge as well. The word of knowledge
does not have to be a major function in the
ministry of a prophet. And I would say you
also need faith, the ability to release God's
Word into the earth. You are going to need
something from all three of these groups.
You will need vocal gifts, revelation gifts,
and you will need some element of the power gifts to function as a
prophet.
58
As you have read this chapter, perhaps you have looked at
yourself. Perhaps you have begun to understand afresh some of what
God has been doing in you and you are beginning to realize, "Hey, I
have actually used the vocal gifts quite a lot. There are some signs
there of the Prophetic Ministry." Perhaps you have never thought you
received revelation, but after reading what I have shared here, you
are beginning to realize, "Hold it! I didn't realize that was revelation."
59
You might have been speaking to someone and they said, 'Yes,
well we were planning to do this, and we want to do that,' and
something just rose up in you and you could feel an anointing on it.
And you said, "Yes, I believe God is going to do that for you." It could
be that was a word of wisdom, and you did not even realize it.
60
The signs will soon show themselves. You will realize as God begins
to show you these things, and to use these gifts in you, that He is
leading you into the Prophetic Ministry. And if you are looking at
somebody else and trying to decide whether they are prophetic or
not, just look for some of these gifts. If you see these gifts in
manifestation in a person, then there is no doubt at all, he or she is
definitely called to be, and is functioning as a prophet.
Chapter 14 - Prophetic Utterance - Section 1
CHAPTER 14
Prophetic Utterance - Section 1
1Prophetic Utterance
2
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And does
not return there again, but waters the earth, and causes it to bear
forth and bud; that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the
eater, so shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth; it shall
not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish what I desire, and it
shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. Isaiah 55:10
3The Word of the Lord
4
The Scripture says that when the Word of the Lord goes forth into
the earth, it will be like rain, which when it falls it brings about a
result. It always brings about a result. You can see what happens
when the first rains begin to fall upon the earth. The ground has
become dry and barren. The grass has dried up. The leaves have
fallen off. Everything is bare. Everything is yellow and aged and dry.
But as the first rains begin to fall, immediately life begins to come.
Something begins to happen to the earth. Something starts to
happen to the plant life and greenery begins to appear.
5
The Word of God, when it goes forth should have the same effect. It
should always bring about results. When God's Word is sent forth into
the earth, it is not empty words. It is not meant to be empty words.
But what is the Word of the Lord? How do we know that what has
gone forth is the Word of the Lord?
6
We read concerning the early prophets, and you will see something
like this. It says, "And the Word of the Lord came to the prophet
(whatever) saying, ..." The Word of the Lord came. So the early
prophets spoke the Word of the Lord.
7
You say, "Did they speak the Scriptures?"
8
Yes, a lot of the Scriptures were spoken by the prophets and were
recorded, but a lot of the prophetic word that was spoken forth was
not necessarily Scripture. It was God's message to the people. When
somebody wanted to hear from God they took hold of a prophet and
said, "What does God say?" and the prophet would speak the Word of
the Lord as God gave it to him.
9
Now we have learned how to listen prophetically and we considered
in a lot of detail how
we can hear the voice of the Lord in order to
receive His Word. In this study I want to
consider what happens once the prophet has
heard, has listened prophetically and has
received the Word of the Lord. What does he
do with it? How does he speak it forth? How
is the prophetic word sent forth once it has
been received? When should a prophet
speak? Is there a correct time and a place?
What should he be speaking? Is there a time
when he should not speak? How should he
speak as he speaks forth? And to whom is he
speaking and addressing the Word that the
Lord gives him?
"When
somebody
wanted to hear
from God they
took hold of a
prophet and
said, "What
does God
say?"
10
These are some of the questions that can
be asked concerning prophetic utterance and
the Word of the Lord as it is sent forth by a
prophet. I want to look at some of these
questions and answer some of them here. I want to consider some of
the various aspects of the prophetic ministry, now in its
manifestation. We have looked a lot at the theory behind the
prophetic ministry and how it works and how it is supposed to
function. I want us to start looking now practically at how we start
using the ministry that God has given us, and how we start pouring
forth that prophetic word that is given to us as God's prophets.
11When Should a Prophet Speak?
12
So let's start by looking at when a prophet should speak? When
must a prophet open his mouth and speak forth and say, "Thus saith
the Lord..." Is there a correct time to do it? Well, the first statement I
want to make might be obvious to you. A prophet should speak only
when he has heard from God.
13
You say, "But isn't that obvious?"
14
Not necessarily. A prophet is supposed to be one who speaks for
God. If you like, he is simply God's spokesman in the earth. When
God said in that passage we read at the beginning, "So shall My Word
be when it goes forth into the earth", we need to consider how God's
Word will go forth into the earth.
15
For many years I used to think that God would speak forth from
heaven and He would speak into the earth as He said in days gone by
when He created the worlds; when His Spirit moved upon the earth,
as it was without form and void. "And God said, 'Let there be light.'
And God said "..." and He spoke! I kind of had this picture that God
would speak from heaven once more, and He would send forth His
Word into the earth. And as His Word went forth into the earth, it
would be devastating in its power. It would be powerful. It would
accomplish that for which it is sent because nobody can resist God.
When God says, "Jump," you do not argue, you say, "How high?" He
is God. He is the supreme authority in the universe. When He speaks
everybody jumps.
16
So I used to just wait and wait and pray, "Lord, send forth Your
Word. Lord, please send forth Your Word because I know when you
send forth Your Word it will accomplish. It will be devastating in
power."
17
But I found out that God speaks His Word now into the earth
through human lips. God has put His Word into the heart of man to
speak forth into the earth. And when God gave forth His Word, which
is revealed and written down and recorded for us in that series of
books that we call the Bible, those words were spoken forth by men
and women of God. They spoke forth under the anointing power of
the Spirit of God. They spoke God's Word into the earth. So if His
Word must go into the earth, the prophet has to speak it. Therefore
the prophet has to have heard from God, and then spoken forth what
he heard from God.
18Only When You Have Heard From God
19
So a prophet cannot speak until he has heard. He can only relay
the message. He can only be the instrument by which the voice is
sent forth into the earth. If a prophet has not heard from God, he
cannot speak prophetically. He can speak his opinion. He can preach
the written logos word, just like anybody else can preach the Word.
But when a prophet speaks for God, when he says, "Thus saith the
Lord..." he has to have heard from God first. And even if he is
preaching the revealed logos word, he has to have heard from God, a
fresh quickening concerning that Word. A fresh anointing, so that the
logos word becomes a rhema word, as though God takes that Word
and speaks it afresh. God takes that Word and He puts it in the
mouth of the prophet to speak it afresh again into the earth.
20
First hear from God, and then open your mouth to speak what He
has told you. That is really all a prophet needs to do. It is not a very
difficult thing to do is it? That is provided you have learned how to
listen properly. And that is where most of the failure is. It is in the
listening. There are a few failures on the speaking too, and we are
going to consider some of those as well.
21Only When You Are Sure
22
So the next important point - and here is another point of failure the prophet should speak only when he is sure of what he has heard.
Now I have seen this happen so many times. Let me illustrate how it
happens. I will send somebody to the shop to get us something to
drink. They will have an idea in their mind of what they want to buy,
what brand of cooldrink they are to buy. And they will say something
like, "Shall I get an orange?" and I will say, "No, get a Coke." Then
they come back from the shop and they have bought an orange.
23
"But I told you to get a Coke."
24
"Oh yes, that's right. Sorry, I forgot."
25
What happened? He had in his mind what he thought he needed to
buy. And his own thought overruled what I told him to buy. Now
when my son does that to me and he comes back from the shop, I
don't have much confidence in him because he never listened and
paid heed to my word.
26
You know, a lot of the prophets are exactly the same. They have
an idea in their head of what they think God would say. They will look
at a person and they will assess the
situation. They look at the person's life, they
look at his circumstances, and they
formulate in their mind an idea, a concept,
an opinion of what God would say to such a
person.
27
Then they come to minister to that person
and God gives them a Word. And often,
when God gives you a word, He doesn't
speak it in words. He speaks it in pictures
and in concepts and in thoughts. So God
grants a picture to the prophet that he can
minister forth a prophetic word based on
that dark saying or picture or vision to that
person. And the prophet will take that
picture and he will twist it to fit the
preconceived idea that he already has
concerning the person. And he will say,
"Thus saith the Lord..." but it is not, "Thus
saith the Lord..." it is, "Thus saith the prophet..."
"a lot of the
prophets are
exactly the
same. They
have an idea
in their head
of what they
think God
would say"
28
It is important that you hear properly. And to hear properly you
had better put all your preconceived ideas out of the way. Because
very often I have assessed a person and considered what I would say
to them, even built up in my mind and pictured what they would say
and what I would say in response, and what they would say, and
what I would say. It is almost like playing a game of chess. I could
picture the whole thing, that when I confront the person I will say this
to them, and then they will say, "I know what he is going to do. He is
going to argue. He is going to justify himself. And then when he does
that I am going to say this back to him again. I know what he is
going to do. He is going to try and worm his way out of it. And he is
going to point to something else and then I am going to get him!"
29
Then you come to the Lord in prayer and God shows you what is
really going on inside that person, and it is very different. And the
very thing that you wanted to speak a word of judgement and
condemnation about, God gives you a prophetic word that says, "Tell
Him I am thrilled with him. Tell him I am pleased with him. Say to
him that he has been doing exactly what I want him to do." Oh, that
is not an easy one to receive when you are a prophet of God. But you
had better learn to hear properly before you open your mouth to
speak forth the Word of God. You had better learn to hear properly
what God really is saying, and put aside your own ideas.
30The Right Time and Place
31
Then it is important that a prophet speaks at the right time, at the
right place. He must speak only in God's timing. I remember when
God first began to move upon me in prophetic ministry and began to
give me revelation and show me things concerning people, He would
give me a prophetic word maybe to give in a public meeting. There is
a tendency to want to go forth and give it immediately.
32
"God has given this to me. He has showed this to me. I have to
give this to them now, because God gave it to me now! God obviously
expects me to speak it right now."
33
Then you have to sit and wait for the right time. And people keep
talking, and they keep praying, and keep speaking. People just do not
give you a chance. Eventually you push in and you interrupt what is
going on in the meeting so that you can speak forth the revelation.
You stand up when you are not supposed to stand up and say, "God
has revealed to me..." Then you wonder why people become upset
and don't want to accept what you are saying.
34
It takes wisdom to use the prophetic ministry. You need to know
when. I don't care if God gave you the Word right at the beginning of
the meeting. He might want you to give that afterwards. He may not
want you to even give it in the meeting. He may have given it to you
before the meeting to give during the meeting. But you need to learn
that when you receive a Word from the Lord, it does not necessarily
mean that now, immediately, is the time to speak it forth.
35
There have been men of God who have been used prophetically in
the past who have functioned in such a way that they would have a
vision, maybe days before the meeting. And during the meeting
certain things would begin to fall into place. I remember reading
about one particular man of God who used to pray for the sick. There
was a person, who needed to be prayed for, and the situation seemed
right, and the anointing was there, but he waited and he waited. And
everybody was waiting and saying, "Is he going to pray now or isn't
he?" And he paced up and down and he waited, and he waited, and
he did not pray. The next moment somebody came walking in and sat
down. Then he went and prayed and the person was healed instantly.
36
Now, there was a reason that he waited, because God had shown
him a vision of him speaking forth healing to that person. God
showed him in the vision exactly who was where, and there was one
person still missing from the picture. He could not pray until the
picture was complete. As soon as that
person came in and sat down the picture
was complete, and he just went ahead and
acted it out.
37
Well, it would be nice if we all received it
that simply. If we were that clear on it and
knew that every time the vision that God
showed us had to be exactly the way He
showed us, then it would work, that would
be quite nice you would say. Well, maybe we
could develop the capacity to see those
kinds of visions. But there is timing. There is
a time and a place for God's Word to be
spoken forth. God knows ahead of time, and
He will give the prophet the Word at the
right time. Maybe there are a few things that
you still need to learn. Maybe there are a
few more things that you still need to know
before you can speak forth that prophetic word.
"God showed
him in the
vision exactly
who was
where, and
there was one
person still
missing from
the picture."
38
Most of the time prophetic words are just that. They are prophetic,
they are future. And maybe it is not the time to speak it forth,
because the circumstances are not right for that prediction, for that
prophetic word to take place. It is very important that the prophet
knows when to open his mouth.
CHAPTER 15
1Even When There is Opposition
2
The prophet needs to speak, even if he is having opposition to the
Word. Here is another mistake that we can make. We seem to think
that only if people are accepting our ministry, can we speak forth the
Word. And if somebody is rejecting it we need to be silent. If
somebody is not happy for us to speak forth then we need to be
silent. The early prophets were not quite that ignorant. The early
prophets stood up and spoke the Word exactly as God told them to
speak it, and it cost them. In many cases it cost them their lives.
They were persecuted, they were thrown into prisons, they were
opposed. They were stoned to death.
3
It is not easy to be a prophet. It is not easy to speak forth God's
Word when people are rejecting it. Because very often the Word that
the prophet gives will be contrary to what the status quo believes. It
will be contrary to what everybody else believes God wanted to do.
And people don't like it when you rock the boat. They don't like it
when you speak prophecies that go against their plans and their ideas
and their own little self-exalting schemes. People don't like it. And if
you are a prophet of God you will have to be prepared
to stand up and speak and face rejection. If
you are not prepared to face rejection, then
you are not qualified to be God's spokesman.
4
One of the very first times Jesus stood up
to speak, when He read from the Scriptures
and said, "This day the Scripture is fulfilled
in your hearing," they wanted to throw Him
over a cliff. Every time after that they
wanted to kill Him. They wanted to put Him
in prison. And on the one occasion when
they sent men to come and capture Jesus
and take Him, they came back and they
could not do it. When asked, "Why didn't you
"They don't
like it when
you speak
prophecies
that go against
their plans and
their ideas and
bring Him?" they said, "Nobody ever spoke
like this guy." He spoke with power and with
authority. He was not afraid to speak forth
the Word that the Father had given to Him.
their own little
self-exalting
schemes."
5
Now I am not saying you must be
arrogant, and we will look at that more as
we go on. But you need to speak when God
tells you to speak, and only when God tells you to speak, and you
need to not be afraid to speak when God tells you to speak. And
sometimes when God tells you to speak, will not be a good time.
6
I remember on one occasion being in a meeting where the Spirit of
God had moved and people had gone forward to be ministered to. I
was one of the few people who didn't go forward to be prayed for and
I think everybody was looking at me and saying, "You think you are
so spiritual that you didn't need to be ministered to? After all,
everybody had to go forward and let the pastor lay hands on them so
they could receive a touch, so they could fall under the power."
7
I did not need to. I was in the Spirit before I walked in. But because
I was visiting and I knew the pastor of the church, at the end of the
meeting he asked me to close in prayer. You know, a simple little
thing, "Lord, thank You for being here today. Bless everybody as they
go home. Bye," the regular closing of the meeting prayer. So I stood
up to pray and I began to do just that, praying a simple little prayer,
"Father I just thank You for being here." And I began to say, "Lord, if
there is anybody here today whose need has not been met I pray that
you will just touch them." That is what I was planning to say.
8
I reached halfway and God said, "Stop." Have you ever tried that in
the middle of closing in prayer? You speak halfway through the
sentence and then stop. The Lord said, "There are people here today
whose needs have not been met and I want you to minister to them."
9
It is not my church, I am just visiting here. The people are looking
down on me. "Who does he think he is?" and the Spirit of God says,
"You minister to the people whose needs have not been met."
10
Well what do you do? You obey the Lord. So I stopped right there
and said, " God shows me there are people here today whose needs
have not been met, and I am going to pray for you right now." I did
not have the courage to go to the front and call them forward. But I
stood there and I said, "Now you reach out to the Lord and I am
going to pray." And I prayed and asked God to reach out and to touch
them. Then the meeting ended and we went home. I do not know
what anybody thought about me, but I did not care because I had
spoken forth the Word of God.
11
I had the same thing happen on another occasion. I was visiting a
meeting of an old ministry associate of mine, and he called me
forward spontaneously to come and give my testimony. He had an
evangelistic ministry and so he thought I could give my testimony of
how I was saved. Well, I do not have a testimony of how I was saved
because I grew up in the Lord. I had grown up knowing the Lord from
childhood. I cannot point to a specific day and say, "On such and such
a day I turned from my sin and was saved." So what kind of
testimony do I give? But he has called me up in front of all these
people to come and give my testimony.
12
So I walked up there and I began to explain and say, "Well, I grew
up in a Christian home and so I knew the Lord. But you know, I did
not fully appreciate what I had in the Lord. I came to a time in my life
when I went through a period of rebellion. I wondered whether all of
what I had believed when I grew up was true or not."
13
As I began to say that the Spirit of the Lord again said, "Stop!" The
Lord said, "There is somebody here tonight in that exact same
position. I want you to speak to them right now."
14
So I stood up in a meeting that was meant to be an evangelistic
meeting and said, "There is somebody here tonight. You grew up as a
Christian. You have known the Lord all your life, but you are
beginning to question it. You are beginning to doubt it and wonder if
it is real. You are thinking of going back into the world again to give it
a try. The Lord says, 'Don't do it!' "
15
So I sat down. That night God gave me confirmation, because after
the meeting a young lady came up to me. She said, "It was me you
were talking about." She said, "My dad is a pastor and I have had it
with the Christian life, with serving the Lord. I just wanted to go and
try the world. I just want to get away from it all. I am sick of it! And I
believe that God spoke to me through you tonight." So I had a chance
to sit down and
minister with her and share with her from
some of my own experiences. You see, you
have to speak when God tells you to speak.
And sometimes there is the risk of being
opposed, and there is the risk of being
misunderstood.
"after the
meeting a
young lady
came up to me.
She said, "It
was me you
were talking
about."
16
I had another occasion that did not go so
well. It was in the church I had been in, just
before the Lord called me to the prophetic
ministry, and I had left under the leading of
the Holy Spirit. But I was invited to come
back to a meeting by somebody there. And
as I sat in the meeting God gave me a
prophetic word for that church. It was not a
nice prophetic word. It was based on the
church of Ephesus. "You have left your first
love." I could feel the heart of the Lord that
was grieved. His heart was grieved. They were worshipping Him, but
He said to me, "These people worship me with their lips, but there
hearts are far from Me. They have left their first love."
17
There was a time in the meeting when people were allowed to
speak. It was not quite the time for that period of the meeting, but
somebody else was led to stand up halfway through the song,
through the worship part, and to share a short word. They said they
felt inspired, so I felt that this was the right time for me to stand up
and share. But I was wrong, because as I stood up to share it felt as
though the atmosphere could be cut with a knife. One of the elders
stood up and said, "Brother sit down."
18
I said, "But I have a Word from the Lord."
19
He said, "Sit down!"
20
I sat down. He was the elder of the church. He was the leader. He
was in charge of that particular local congregation and he was not
permitting me to speak the Word of God in that congregation. So I
sat down, but I could feel it burning in me. I could feel God rising up
in me and saying, "My Word needs to be spoken to this church." So I
went to that elder, even as they continued on in worship. I walked
over to him and I said, "Brother, I want to speak to you now!
Outside."
21
We walked outside and he came to speak to me, and then the
other elder of that church (there were two of them) joined him. I
spoke to the two of them together, and I said, "Brethren, God gave
me a Word for this church and you won't let me speak it. Therefore I
must hold you responsible before the Lord that if you will not let me
speak that prophetic word, then you will have to take the
consequences and answer to the Lord for not letting that Word go
forth."
22
They were quite bold and quite arrogant, and they said, "Fine, we
will take the responsibility. We will accept the consequences."
23
Well, that church did not continue. It indeed became like the
church in Ephesus, where God said, "Return to your first love and do
the first works or I will remove your candlestick." A while later when I
went to go and look for them they were no longer fellowshipping
there. I do not know whether they had moved or not. But God said to
me that they would be removed and they would be shattered and
scattered.
24
It is not easy to be a prophet. But you have to speak when God
tells you to speak. And you have to speak when people do not want
you to speak. You have to speak the Word of God, because it is His
Word that is going forth, and you are simply His instrument, His
spokesman that needs to speak forth the Word.
25When Should a Prophet Not Speak
26
Well then, when should a prophet not speak? I have more or less
covered that already. Firstly, he should not speak when he is not sure
of his message. If you are not sure, rather wait and ask God for
confirmation. Ask Him to confirm through somebody else. Perhaps
God will inspire somebody else to give forth a prophetic word that is
in line with the Word that God has given you. Perhaps somebody else
will receive a very similar revelation which will dovetail with yours,
and you will know that you heard right. But if you are not sure; if you
are not absolutely sure that what you are speaking is correct, then
rather be silent, because you can cause more damage by speaking
the wrong words and giving a revelation to people that was not of
God. You can destroy people's faith. You can destroy their spiritual
life, and you can put them off serving the Lord for good if you are not
careful.
27Use Your Urim and Thummim
28
As a prophet you need to learn to use your spiritual Urim and
Thummim. You needs to sense that check in the Spirit, that when you
want to open your mouth and speak, as somebody has said, "It is like
having cotton wool in it. It won't come out." Something in your spirit
says, "No, don't do it now." You see, that is the sort of thing that I
was describing already, that as I stood up to pray the Lord said,
"Stop!" That is the spiritual Urim and Thummim, and I have learned
to obey that. It should be like you are walking down a road and you
stop in mid-stride. It should be like they do on the movies where the
movie is going along and they freeze frame and then run it
backwards. You are walking along merrily and, "Hold it. Wrong way.
Back. Okay, now we go this way."
29
That is how sensitive the prophet needs to be to the voice of God,
that he can sense when he is walking along the road correctly, and
when he is not walking along the road correctly. As I have shared
once before, it is like walking down a road. God gives you a goal to
aim for and you head for that, but you may be walking on a narrow
footpath and every now and then you may stumble off it. As you
begin to speak you say things that are wrong. You need to learn how
to keep to the footpath. If you cannot walk straight, then practice by
yourself a little bit more before you try and unleash your ministry on
the public, because you don't know what you are doing yet. That is
why the prophetic training is also absolutely vital for a prophet to
learn how to use the gifts that God has given him.
30Avoiding Prejudice
31
A prophet must not speak when his message is colored by
prejudice. Oh, when you have something against somebody it is
lovely to obtain a prophetic word of judgment and condemnation for
them isn't it? It is so easy for me to say to a person in prophecy what
I do not have the courage to say to them in their face; to stand up in
a meeting and say, "Thus saith the Lord..." and go ahead and ram
them. Then you hide behind the Lord for it
and say, "Heh heh heh. Got him. I sent it to
him good and hard there." And he could not
argue because it was, "Thus saith the
Lord..."
32
No, I think you will find out that most of
what you said was, "Thus saith me..." not,
"Thus saith the Lord..." Don't ever try to
minister when you have prejudice; when you
have judgements that you have made
against a person, or when you have
bitterness in your heart. Don't you dare to
open your mouth to speak, because you are
going to speak forth the wrong word.
33
"It is so easy
for me to say
to a person in
prophecy what
I do not have
the courage to
say to them in
their face"
Now the prophet can speak forth
judgement. When you study the prophetic
key you will see that we speak about the
authority that the prophet has to bind and to loose. But be very
careful about using that key against somebody that you hate; against
somebody that you are bitter against. That is not what it is for. When
you speak a word of judgement and warning, you had better be sure
that it is God that is speaking to that person. I have found that
usually when God gives me those kinds of words it is when I really do
not want to bring them; when I am afraid of causing harm; when I
care too much for people to speak any kind of judgement. It is
usually only then that I can have the liberty to stand up and speak a
Word.
34
I remember one night giving an altar call after I had preached. And
as I began to give the altar call God told me to speak a Word. Now I
don't normally speak these kinds of words. I have heard lots of
preachers who say it to try and scare people into salvation. But as I
stood and spoke the Lord said, "There is somebody here tonight. This
is the last opportunity I am giving him."
35
Well my theology kind of exploded against that one, but I knew the
Spirit of God was saying, "Speak it!" So I spoke it. I had an idea who
the Lord was referring to as well. I really did not want to speak
judgement on him, but that was God's Word. It was not colored by
any prejudice or attitude of my own.
36Waiting on Others
37
Sometimes God gives more than one prophet the same revelation.
Sometimes somebody else can even give it better, and maybe it is
better for you to keep quiet and let the other guy bring it. In 1
Corinthians 14, where Paul refers to the prophets speaking he says:
38
1 Corinthians 14:29 Let the prophets speak two or three ... (GMR)
39
Then he says:
40
1 Corinthians 14:30 If [any thing] is revealed to another [prophet]
that is sitting out, let the first [prophet] be quiet. (GMR)
41
"I have this great big revelation from the Lord, brother."
42
And another prophet stands up and says, "I just want to share with
you that God gave me something very similar." Learn to stand back
and let God use somebody else.
43
You say, "But God gave it to me."
44
So what. If two people received the interpretation, must they both
start interpreting together, or must the one person give the
interpretation and the other person say, "I don't like the way he
interpreted it. Let me show you guys how it should have been."? You
know what confusion that would cause in a meeting?
45
We need to learn to wait on one another, because the prophetic
word you are giving is
not to exalt you. It is to speak the Word of
God. It is to exalt others and build them up.
It is not to make a name for yourself. It is
not to be seen. Learn to wait on one another
prophetically. Learn to recognize your other
prophetic brethren that God has given a
Word to, and learn to bow down and let God
raise them up and speak the Word through
them. Maybe they can do a better job than
you can.
46
There is a time the prophet should not
speak. And once more it is a case of using
the wisdom of God and being led by the
Spirit of God. When the Lord says, "Shut
up!" it means, "Zip your lip. Be quiet! Do not
fight."
"I don't like
the way he
interpreted it.
Let me show
you guys how
it should have
been."
47
"But the Lord gave..."
48
"Shut up!"
49
"But Lord..."
50
"Be quiet!"
51
We don't like that. Hey, it is kind of shades of childhood days isn't
it?
52
"Be quiet, Johnny."
53
"But Dad..."
54
"John, be quiet!"
55
"But why?"
56
"John, be quiet!"
57
Mumble, mutter, moan, groan, complain!
58
"Now is not the time, Johnny. You can talk later."
59
Learn to be obedient to the Spirit of God.
CHAPTER 16
1What Should a Prophet Speak?
2
Okay, let us go on. What should the prophet speak? Obviously only
what God has given him. And the prophet will speak predictive words.
He will speak words concerning the future. God will give a revelation
concerning the future and he will speak forth what is going to happen
in the future.
3Old Testament Examples
4
Some of the early prophets had such clear, clear, prediction
concerning the future. A lot of them spoke concerning the way distant
future. And many of the prophecies that are given by the prophets of
old have not been fulfilled yet. But there is a lovely one given by the
prophet Samuel which shows what a top notch prophet he really was,
and how well he heard the Word of God. I want to share this passage.
You have obviously read it yourself before, but it is such a beautiful
description.
5
God had told Samuel to appoint Saul to be the king. Saul was off
looking for donkeys that were lost, and in looking for the lost donkeys
he came across the prophet Samuel. He spent a bit of time with
Samuel, and as Samuel sent him off the Scripture says in 1 Samuel
9:27:
6
1 Samuel 9:27 [And] as they were going down to the end of the
city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he
passed on,) but stand you still a while, that I may show you the word
of God. (GMR)
7
Samuel had already received the Word of God the night before or
whenever and he must have received it in vision, because it is so
clear you could not have gone wrong.
8
1 Samuel 10:1 Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured [it] on his
head, and kissed him, and said, [Is it] not because the LORD
[Yahweh] has anointed you [to be] captain over his inheritance?
9
2 When you have departed from me to day, then you will find two
men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and
they will say to you, The asses which you went to seek are found:
and, look, your father has abandoned his concern for the asses, and
is worrying about you, saying, What am I going to do about my son?
10
3 Then you shall go on ahead from there, and you shall come to
the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet you three men going up to
God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three
loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine: (GMR)
11
He must have been analytical, Samuel. Just look at the detail he
gives?
12
1 Samuel 10:4 And they will greet you, and give you two [loaves]
of bread; which you shall receive from their hands.
13
5 After that you shall come to the hill of God, where the garrison of
the Philistines [is]...(GMR)
14
Just listen to the detail.
15
1 Samuel 10:...and it shall come to pass, when you have arrived
there at the city, that you shall meet a company of prophets coming
down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe,
and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:
16
6 And the Spirit of the LORD [Yahweh] will come upon you, and
you shall prophesy with them, and shall be turned into another man.
17
7 And let it happen, when these signs have come to you, [that]
you do as the occasion requires of you; for God [is] with you. (GMR)
18
If you read on you will find it happened exactly like that, right
down to the last detail. I mean it is as though Samuel, in the Spirit,
went on the journey with the guy. It was as though he was walking
by his side and watching it. You know, even if that happened to me,
even if I had that kind of vision, I would not remember all those
details, I really wouldn't. I guess Samuel must have been pretty well
equipped to be able to remember
every detail. I am surprised he didn't give
some of the colors of the grass or
something, and say, "There's a little tree on
your left there, and you'll see a stone over
there..." But he described it exactly. And it
happened exactly as he prophesied.
19
"Samuel, in
the Spirit, went
on the journey
with the guy. It
was as though
he was
walking by his
side and
watching it."
It would be wonderful if we could all
obtain that kind of prophetic revelation to be
able to hear the voice of God that clearly.
The prophet can predict. He can speak forth
the future because only God knows the
future. Satan does not know the future. And
when men who are inspired by Satan,
predict the future, they cannot predict what
is going to happen. They can only predict
what Satan is planning to make happen. But
God knows the end from the beginning. And
only the prophet of God can give true
prediction and foretelling concerning what is to take place in the
future.
20Speaking Forth Decrees
21
The prophet must also speak forth decrees. Not only does the
prophet predict, but he actually speaks into existence. Now we'll look
at that in more detail as we consider the word of wisdom. Very often
God will show the prophet what He plans to accomplish in the future,
and what needs to be done in the earth. And when the prophet
speaks a, "Thus saith the Lord..." and he speaks forth the word, he
sends it into the earth like a decree.
22
The prophet is given something like the ring of King Ahasuerus in
the book of Esther, where the king's seal, when it was placed upon a
decree, made that decree inviolable. It was the law of the Medes and
Persians, and once it was sealed and sent forth the decree could not
be repealed. It could not be brought back. The prophet has that kind
of authority, and we see some of that when considering the key that
God has given to the prophet.
23Directive Words
24
The prophet should speak directive words. The prophet will give
direction. Very often we know which way we should go. We have an
idea based on the Scriptures, what the right thing is for us to do. But
we need fine-tuned direction. And here we need to be also very
careful concerning the way the prophets functioned in the Old
Testament, and the way the prophets function in the New Testament.
25
In the Old Testament, if you wanted direction from the Lord you
would come to the prophet, the seer, and the prophet would speak as
God gave him the word. As he received the word of the Lord as God
did here with Samuel, the prophet would speak and he would give
direction as he did to Saul. He said, "Go out and do... This is going to
happen. That is going to happen. When this happens, that is what
you must do..." It is directive prophesy.
26
Now there are a lot of people, particularly those who are not in the
prophetic ministry, who don't understand it. There are teachers who
want to try and teach on prophetic ministry and I am appalled at how
much teaching there is on the prophetic ministry that is not given by
prophets. It amazes me when some of the so called authorities that
are teaching and writing books on the prophetic ministry, are people
in the office of a teacher, but have never functioned as a prophet.
They want to teach how the prophet should function but they have
never been there. Only a prophet can fully understand how the
prophetic ministry should function.
27Paul and Agabus
28
Some of these teachers have taught that prophecy is not to be
directive. And as an example they take where Paul was approached
by Agabus, who was one of the chief prophets of that time. Agabus
came to him and tied him up and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit,
'The person who owns this girdle will be bound like this and cast into
prison.' " Everywhere Paul went, people began to give him prophetic
words.
29
He wrote afterwards and said, "I don't know what's waiting for me
when I get to Jerusalem, except that the Holy Spirit tells me in every
city that there's going to be trouble up ahead; that there's going to
be bonds up ahead." But Paul said, "I'm not moved by any of these
things." And when the prophet came and spoke everybody begged
Paul and said, "Paul, don't go. The Lord's warning you not to go." But
Paul said, "Stop bugging me! I'm not afraid to go and be bound in
Jerusalem. I'm not even afraid to die for the Lord."
30
Now I am not going to enter into this dispute, but there is a
dispute concerning this passage. Some people have said that Paul
never missed it. Paul was right. Well why then did the prophets speak
those words of warning and tell him not to go to Jerusalem? Why did
God bother to speak through the prophets? Just for interest sake?
31
"Hey, by the way, Paul, just so you can sit and lie awake at night, I
just want to let you know that it's going to be tough when you get to
Jerusalem. Just don't have any fancy ideas that things are going to go
well with you, Paul."
32
That is really the work of the Holy Spirit isn't it? To put fear in us.
No! God warned Paul and he kicked against the word of the Lord, do
you know why? Paul was not a prophet. Paul was an apostle. He was
a teacher. He was a preacher. But Paul was not a prophet. Paul
always had to take a prophet with him. He took Barnabus with him,
and they split up. Why did they split up? Because Paul was arrogant.
He wanted to do it his way, and he refused to let John Mark come
along as Barnabus wanted. But in the end Barnabus made John Mark
into something beautiful.
33
So who was right? Paul was hard-headed. He wanted to do it his
way. So Paul went to Jerusalem against the direction of the Holy
Spirit. And the moment he gets to Jerusalem all the Jewish Christians
come to him and they say, "Hey Paul, we've heard that you're
teaching people that they don't have to obey the law any more. This
is bad news. Hey, now listen, you'd better prove to us that you're still
a good little Jew. Now Paul you'd better start showing us that you still
do the Jewish thing. We want you to go and shave your hair and be in
involved with a bunch of people that have a Nazarite vow. And you
must go to the temple and offer sacrifices and do the Jewish thing."
34
Paul had taught against this. He had taught against this. He had
fought for it. But he succumbed to peer pressure. And he said, "Okay,
just for peace sake, to keep everybody happy, I'll go and do it." So he
went there into the temple with these men and that is where his
troubles started. That is where everybody went mad. There was a big
uproar
and they grabbed him and they took him off.
And from there Paul had nothing but trouble
after trouble after trouble.
35
That is why Paul eventually ended up in
prison, and to try and get out he went and
did another stupid thing. He appealed to
Caesar. What for? Didn't he believe the Lord
could get him out? No, he appealed to
Caesar. He was a Roman, and he ended up
being sent to Rome when he could have
been set free. Yes, God worked it for good.
Yes, good came out of the whole thing. But I
see nowhere any indication that Paul should
have done that, or that the Lord intended
him to do it in the first place. If Paul had
obeyed that prophetic word from the
beginning I believe he would have missed all
of that.
"He had
taught against
this. He had
fought for it.
But he
succumbed to
peer
pressure."
36
Directive prophecy is still valid today. And if you are not able to
hear the voice of the Lord clearly, or if you are not sure of what
you've sensed or heard in your spirit, then you had better listen to
the directive word that God speaks through his spokesman the
prophets. You had better obey that direction and go the way that God
intends you to go.
37Words of Encouragement
38
The prophet also speaks words of encouragement. Barnabus was
the son of consolation. Silas and Judas were brethren who exhorted
and encouraged people with many words. The prophet should be
speaking things to build people up, to encourage them. People are
down. People have problems out in the world. They are being
hammered. It is dog eat dog out there. We need somebody to come
to us and say; "God cares. Don't worry. Hang in there, the Lord's
going to take you through. I just want you to know that you didn't fail
and that God is with you. Just keep going. Just hang in there." We all
need it. A lot of us need it every day. We need words of exhortation
and encouragement to lift us up.
39Warning and Judgement
40
The prophet also speaks words of warning and of judgement. There
is a place for that, but it needs to be ministered correctly. So the
prophet needs to speak words that lead to the upbuilding of the body,
because that is what God has given the five-fold ministry for, "for the
building up of the body in love" the Scripture says. So the prophet
should be speaking words that could be healing and soothing.
41
If your body is diseased there are two ways to heal it. Perhaps you
have a wound. You have been hurt, you have been bruised. There is
corrosion in your body. It needs soothing. Maybe you need painkillers
to take away the pain. Maybe you need a warm compress or a
bandage or something that will soothe, that will heal, that will help
the body to restore itself. But sometimes you need radical
amputation. Sometimes the limb is so badly diseased that in order to
save the health of the body you have to cut it off. Sometimes there's
an organ in the body that is so diseased that in order to bring healing
to the body it needs to be cut out.
42
There is a time and a place for both, and the prophet is to be God's
doctor if you like to the body. To speak forth at times words of
soothing and of healing and comfort and strength. And only where it's
absolutely necessary, to cut off that which is diseased. Jesus said, "If
your right hand offends you, cut it off. It is better for you to enter
into life maimed, than having two, to enter into destruction. If your
right eye offends you, pluck it out."
43
This is radical amputation. There comes a time when there needs
to be a cutting off. But usually that is the exception rather than the
rule. The rule is try it first. Try and heal that diseased eye. Try and
heal that diseased limb. If it cannot be healed, then cut it off. So
often the prophets of God are very quick to take their sword and to
start chopping off ears. Hmm? Just like Peter in the Garden of
Gethsemane (slash, slash, think quick) too quick!
44Always Based on the Word
45
Prophets should only speak things that are based on the word. A
prophet is not permitted to say, "Thus saith the Lord..." and follow
with something that is contrary to Scripture. Unfortunately, a lot of
people who are in the prophetic ministry seem to think that their
prophetic word is tantamount to Scripture. They seem to think that
Scripture and their prophetic word, since they both came from God,
are on a par. They are not. And that's a different subject all on it's
own - the Canon of Scripture. But when the prophet speaks a word of
inspiration, the Scripture says, "For we prophesy in part and we know
in
part." We are frail human vessels and we
make mistakes. But we speak forth a piece,
just a small piece of the word of God.
46
You will see even in the Scripture there
are those prophets who were inspired to
write down and to capture some of the
prophetic words that are in our Bible. But
even as you read there you read about
different prophets. You read about the
prophet Nathan that came to David and
confronted him concerning the sin of
Bathsheba. And although what was spoken
is recorded, those were not Scripture. We
don't take the writings of the prophet
Nathan and make the Bible book of Nathan.
There isn't one. There isn't a book of Gad.
There isn't a book of Deborah the
prophetess. Yet they were prophets. They
"Unfortunately,
a lot of people
who are in the
prophetic
ministry seem
to think that
their prophetic
word is
tantamount to
Scripture."
were used by God. They spoke forth
prophetic words.
47The Canon of Scripture
48
So today the canon of Scripture is complete. There is nothing that
we can add to the word of God. So when a prophet speaks he speaks
in accordance with the word of God. And if a prophet speaks
something that does not agree with the word of God, then that
prophesy is to be rejected. And if the prophet is going to preach the
word, one would think that he is going to preach the whole counsel of
God, not the Old Testament law.
49
You see we have a New Testament, 27 books of it. But it seems to
me today that a lost of people have the idea that only the Old
Testament is the Scripture and that the books of the New Testament
were just little add-ons and commentaries of the Old Testament. So
these so-called prophets of God are standing up to proclaim the law,
which the prophets of the Old Testament proclaimed. We are not
ministering to Israel. We are ministering to the body of Christ. I keep
getting back to that, and we have to cover that on a subject on its
own. But the prophet is not to be preaching Old Testament law. He is
meant to be preaching the New Covenant, because he's a New
Covenant prophet.
CHAPTER 17
1How Should the Prophet Speak?
2
Now how should the prophet speak? Firstly he is to speak in words
to the church. And that word is to be addressed to whomever it is
specifically for. If a prophet is going to speak a personal prophecy,
and by that I mean a prophetic word for a specific individual, then the
prophetic word needs to be addressed to that individual. You don't
stand up in a congregation and speak a prophetic word to one
individual. If you are to do that then you need to point them out and
say, "Thus saith the Lord to you my brother..." and you have to speak
it forth. Or you need to be praying with that person and prophesying
specifically over that person. It must be very clear when you speak
the prophetic word, exactly who the word is addressed to if it is going
to be personal prophecy.
3
If you are to give prophecy to a gathered group, then the prophecy
is given to the entire group. Now it may apply to specific individuals,
and I know it has been a common idea in time past and Pentecostal
circles that when a prophetic utterance is given in a group,
people begin to say, "I wonder if it was for
me?" And each person walks out from there
and says, "I believe that prophecy tonight
was for me."
4
Well, were you in the meeting? If you were
in the meeting it was for you, yes. So was
everybody else. It was for all of them.
Otherwise the prophet should have come to
you specifically and spoken the prophetic
word over you. If it is to be given to a group
then it should be applicable to the whole
group.
"If you are to
give prophecy
to a gathered
group, then the
prophecy is
given to the
entire group."
5In the Local Church
6
There can be a prophetic word given to a local church. And if the
prophetic word is to be given to the local church then that prophetic
word needs to be given in the context of the way that local church is
run. It needs to be given in cooperation with the elders and the
leadership of that local church, because they have been appointed to
authority in that local church. They stand responsible before God for
what takes place in that church. And therefore the prophetic word
should be directed, not so much to the church in general, but to the
leadership of that church. If God is speaking a word that involves a
call for change in that local church, then that word needs to be given
to those who are authorized to bring about the change.
7
That prophetic word needs to be given to the leaders.
8
So there may be a time when the prophet may receive a word for a
church. The prophet will be required, not to stand up in the meeting
and speak forth as I tried to do in that meeting, but to call the elders
aside as eventually I was forced to, to speak the word and say, "This
is God's prophetic word for this church. Take heed." And the
leadership then is responsible before God to respond to that word
correctly.
9
If there's a prophetic word concerning a specific leader then it must
be given as a personal word to that leader. But the prophet must
speak to whom the message is directed. If you are speaking to a
larger community, a province, a state, or even the country, then the
prophetic word needs to be publicized in that particular area, and that
it must be made clear that this is God's word to the church in this
community.
10
"This is God's word to the state..."
11
"This is God's word to this country..."
12
"This is God's word to this continent..."
13
And then it could be this is God's word to His body universal.
14
"Thus saith the Lord to the body of Christ..."
15
Then it should be published internationally so that the whole
church can see it and hear the word that God is speaking forth to His
church.
16In Love and Not Malice
17
The prophet should speak in love and not in malice. Here the
prophet needs to understand the difference, and be able to recognize
the difference in relationship between Father God and the Lord Jesus,
the Son of God. As you perceive them and experience them in the
Spirit you are going to see a difference.
18
God is the judge of all. He is a holy, righteous God who stands in
judgment of sin. God demands holiness. He demands righteousness.
He demands perfection. And when we come into the presence of the
Father we come in awesome reverential fear. We fall at His feet, and
we are too afraid to look up higher than His knees.
19
But when we come into the presence of the Son, He stands with
open arms. He stands with a heart of love. He stands with a look of
love, and He speaks words of encouragement and love. He never
speaks words of condemnation because He did not come to condemn
the world, but He came that the world through Him might be saved.
So the prophet of God needs to recognize that the prophetic ministry
amongst the five-fold gifts was given by the Lord Jesus Christ to His
church.
20
In the Old Testament the prophet was sent by the Father. The Son
had not come yet. He had not been manifested. But there are times
when the prophet rises up in the Spirit and the anointing power of the
Spirit of God rises up within him, and the Spirit of the Father is in
him. And there comes a righteous indignation. There comes a hatred
for sin. There comes God's righteous anger. And the prophet speaks
forth a word of judgment, of authority, of awesomeness in the
presence of God.
21
Learn to recognize the difference, prophet, because there comes a
time when we speak forth God's word. But, in Christ, there is never
condemnation. There is always love and exhortation and
encouragement. Realize that the Scripture says that 'no man cometh
unto the Father except by Him', by the Lord Jesus. We always come
through Him. And when God speaks a word, we need to realize that
the answer to that word is Christ. And if we are going to speak a word
of condemnation and judgment, we had better learn to realize that
we must also include the word that tells the people how to overcome
that judgment.
22
When we are going to speak a prophetic word that says, "God is
going to judge here," we need to also be able to speak the prophetic
word that says, "In Christ you can avert this judgment." If we are to
speak a prophetic word that speaks of destruction, we need to speak
the prophetic word that says, "This destruction can be averted." It is
very
important that we keep a balance, and that
we understand the principles involved. I
must again not be side-tracked onto that
subject, but it comes up again and again.
23In the Power of the Spirit
24
The prophet must speak in the power of
the Spirit, and the prophet can expect signs
following. In John 12 Jesus was praying in
what was really the Lord's prayer. We
normally consider the disciples prayer the
Lord's prayer, but this was the Lord's prayer.
In John 12 as Jesus was leading up to that,
there were occasions when Jesus prayed.
And on this one particular occasion, just
before He came to the cross He said:
25
John 12:27 Now is my soul troubled; and
what shall I say? Father, save me from this
hour: but for this cause came I unto this
hour.
26 28 Father, glorify your name...(GMR)
27
"If we are to
speak a
prophetic
word that
speaks of
destruction,
we need to
speak the
prophetic
word that says,
"This
destruction
can be
averted."
That was a prophetic declaration there.
28
John 12:Then there came a voice from
heaven, [saying], I have both glorified [it], and will glorify [it] again.
29
29 The people therefore, that stood by, and heard [it], said that it
thundered: others said, An angel spoke to him.(GMR)
30
The prophet can expect God to confirm, with signs following, the
word that he speaks. And as Samuel spoke the word to Saul and he
went forth, God confirmed the exact word. And the Spirit of God came
on Saul so heavily that people began to wonder if Saul hadn't become
a prophet. God will confirm the word that He gives you if you are
speaking in the Spirit.
31In Dreams and Visions
32
The prophet will speak in dreams and in visions. Now not all
dreams are prophetic, and we have considered that as we've looked
at prophetic listening. But if God has given you a dream that is
prophetic, then the prophet will stand up and interpret the dream. If
God has given a vision, the prophet will stand up and share that
vision and interpret it for the body of Christ.
33The Gift of Prophecy
34
The prophet will speak by prophetic utterance, where he will stand
up and say, "Thus saith the Lord..." and he will speak it forth by the
ordinary gift of prophecy.
35Teaching and Preaching
36
The prophet will speak by prophetic teaching and preaching, and
that is still, "Thus saith the Lord..." even though he may have
prepared notes and stood behind a pulpit. He can still speak
prophetically, and what he's speaking is still inspired by the Holy
Spirit. And the words that come to his mind and his heart cause him
to always end up saying a lot more than he planned to say, as you
can see. Why? Because the Spirit of God inspires.
37Proclamation
38
There is a difference between preaching and proclamation.
Preaching is when you are sharing principles. Proclamation is when
God gives you a word to say, and you speak it forth. I declare. I
announce to the world something that God is saying. The prophet is
very often proclaiming while he is preaching.
39To the World
40
The prophet will speak in words to the world. It is possible for the
prophet to obtain revelation concerning unbelievers. Ananias, that
disciple, received a prophetic word from the Lord that said, "I want
you to go to the street called Straight. There's a guy there who has
been killing all the Christians. His name is Saul. I want you to go and
speak to him and lay hands on him and pray for him." Saul wasn't
saved yet. He was an unbeliever. The Spirit of God met him. Jesus
met him on the road to Damascus.
41
It is possible for a prophet to receive revelation concerning an
unbeliever. Why? For the purpose of salvation. It is possible for God
to reveal something, and as you are sharing with an unbeliever, God
will show you by the word of knowledge, something about that person
that you can say, "God shows me that this is what has happened to
you in the past." And the person's eyes will grow big and they will
say, "How did you know?" And their
heart will be opened. You see this is part of
the sign ministry. The prophet can still
function that way. And a prophet, like every
other Christian, is still responsible to bring
the gospel.
42Prediction
43
The prophet can predict things that are
going to happen in the world. Agabus stood
up and declared that there was going to be a
famine in the land. So the churches gathered
"And the
person's eyes
will grow big
and they will
say, "How did
you know?"
together finance to send to the church in
that area, so that they would have money
and provision when the recession came. The prophet of God can
receive revelation concerning what is going to happen in the world.
Why? Because only God knows the future. But the purpose of it is
always for the extension of God's kingdom and for the destruction of
Satan's kingdom. That is the goal that we must always have - to build
up God's kingdom to bring people in and to stand against Satan.
44To the Creation
45
The prophet can speak words to creation. Jesus spoke to a fig tree.
He spoke to the wind and the waves. He spoke to water and turned it
into wine. We have authority to use the key. Elijah spoke to the
clouds and said, "No more rain." We have authority to speak to the
creation.
46To the Enemy
47
We have authority to speak words to the enemy, to Satan himself.
A prophet can send forth the decree of judgment against Satan and
against his kingdom. The prophet can speak forth in the Spirit. And
very often the gift of tongues can be one of the most powerful tools
that can be used to come against Satan and to speak against him.
Now I know there are a lot of people who have the idea that the devil
doesn't understand tongues. And I have heard people say, "Well, I
pray in tongues so that the devil doesn't
know what I'm saying." He probably knows
more than you do. The Scripture says that
tongues are the "tongues of men and of
angels."
48
Satan was an angel. And I tell you what,
when I resist the devil and I come against
him, when I speak words to him, most of the
time I speak them in tongues. They rise up
in me in righteous indignation and anger,
and I begin to shout and I point my finger at
him. I can see him putting his tail between
"there are a
lot of people
who have the
idea that the
devil doesn't
understand
his legs and running already. So I think he
understood it. Even he understood it like a
dog that just picked up the tone of your
voice. Let me tell you dogs are not stupid.
One of our dogs here is so afraid of bangers that she can die. If she
comes and makes a noise at the door we don't even need to bring the
banger out any more. We just say, "Where's the banger?" and she's
gone. You tell me dogs don't understand English? Hey, the devil
understands your tongues. Use them against him. They are a very
powerful weapon.
tongues."
CHAPTER 18
1In Actions
2
The prophet will speak in actions. Sometimes actions speak louder
than words, we say. Sometimes the action that he will take out will
be acts of faith. And God will lead the prophet to do stupid things.
God will lead the prophet to do things that defy all logic, like leave the
church and pack up your job, and sit and spend every day in the
presence of the Lord. Like pack up everything and go overseas to a
country you've never seen before. God leads the prophet to do foolish
things, foolish things in the sight of the world, but the very act is a
declaration to the world. The very action that you carry out is
speaking forth.
3
A lot of the early prophets used to do things. And as people would
come and ask them what they were doing then they would explain
what their actions were doing. People would remember the picture.
Actions release the authority and the power of God. Today we don't
do much of that, but it is still possible for the prophet to act. In the
New Testament Agabus took Paul's girdle and tied him up in it. Why
didn't he just come and say, "Oh, you're Paul aren't you? Yes. The
Holy Spirit says to tell you that you are going to be bound up if you
go to Jerusalem." Why did he have to do it a stupid way? Can you
imagine you are sitting in a meeting there and this guy comes up to
you and says, "Come here." And he starts taking your belt off.
Wouldn't you kind of look at him a little bit skew?
4
"Umm, what's going on here?"
5
And then he takes your belt and he says, "Give me your hands."
And he takes your belt and he starts to tie your hands up. You're
going to say, "This guy's cuckoo for sure. Does
anybody know who this guy is?"
6
"Oh, no he comes from over there somewhere. We've never seen
him before. What is he trying to do? Is he nuts?"
7
Why did he do it? I don't know. I can't say
I've been led to do too many of those things.
I know however, that at times God has led
me to act things out in the Spirit. I
remember one of the earliest experiences I
had as this is as I was singing in the Spirit I
found myself doing operas in the Spirit, and
acting out bible scenes. I remember doing
the play of Abraham offering Isaac. And I
was Abraham. I acted the whole thing out. I
could feel what he was feeling. I could see what he was doing. There
have been times in the Spirit as I began to pray and worship that I
would see myself on the battlefield setting the army in array. And
God said to me, "I have called you to be a General." I have seen
myself ordering the soldiers and putting everything in order. I acted it
out in the Spirit.
"You're going
to say, "This
guy's cuckoo
for sure."
8
I know that many of the ministries that I have done, even just
prophesying over people, I acted them out in the Spirit on my own
first. On my own I was pretending that I was praying with people and
I was prophesying over them, and I could see myself doing it. I did it
all on my own because if anybody was with me they may have
thought I was mad. I guess we're a bit embarrassed to do these
things publicly. But you see sometimes the Holy Spirit leads you to
release what He's telling you through action. When you start acting it
in front of others, people might think that you're a bit strange. But
hey, God may lead you to do that.
9
I heard of one guy that came from overseas and God had just given
him one word. He would come to the meeting, fall down on the
ground on his back and lie there. Then he'd rise up and say, "That's
the word God's given me to tell you. Kill the flesh! Let it die!" Well it
was quite dramatic, but I think people remembered the message. I
wonder how much people remember of what we preach and say. But
they'll remember the message if you act it out. Maybe the reason
we're not so effective as prophets at times is because we are too stiff
and starchy. We are too embarrassed by what people think instead of
just allowing ourselves to do what God tells us to do. Maybe we need
to act stupid at times. Maybe we need to do silly things at times and
just act what God tells us to act.
10In Song
11
Then the prophet can speak in song. I have found that with a lot of
these things, as I did them, I did them in song. And the prophet can
prophesy by song. A prophetic word can be given in a spontaneous
song. And a prophetic word can also be given in rhyme format. I had
a strange experience recently as we began to pray. I did a 'rap' in the
Spirit. Oh, I hate rap. Man I hate rap music. But as I began to pray
the Holy Spirit had me rapping there. I could see it. I was a real rap
artist. I tell you, that had to be the Holy Spirit because I hate it.
12Prophetic Song
13
We can speak forth prophetically in song. And if you read the book
of Psalms you will see that it consists of 150 songs. They are songs
written by the psalmist who played with his little harp and sang them.
And do you know what? Psalms is loaded with prophecy. In a psalm
David predicted in almost exact descriptive detail what happened on
the cross, where Jesus hung on the cross and said, "My God My God
why have you forsaken Me?" You'll read it there in the psalms. It was
written in a song. We have seen that expression in music and song is
part of the prophetic ministry. Prophets have the ability to release the
anointing in song. It is possible for us to write songs that are
prophetic. We can write poetry that is prophetic.
14
I remember before I met my wife Daphne, that as I was looking to
the Lord for a new wife I began to write poems for her. I began to
write poems and songs to her. And some of them were prophetic.
Some of them were declarations that said, "This is what is going to
happen. God is going to bring you to me. God is going to put us
together. We are going to work for Him. We are going to meet each
other's needs." They were prophetic. They weren't just love songs.
And they came to pass.
15
At one stage I used to ride in my car and just speak one of those
poems over and over again. I would speak it to her in the Spirit,
speak it forth and declare it forth and speak it into existence. And it
took barely two months from the time I started to seek God that He
brought us together and gave us both the
desire of our hearts.
16Warfare Song
17
It is possible to do warfare by song. Oh,
what a powerful warfare it is. I tell you,
often as we sing in the Spirit we begin to
sing in war. And we're like soldiers
marching. We begin to sing the battle. We
sing the explosions. We sing the machine
gun fire and sing the bombs, and whatever it
is that is being released.
18
"I would speak
it to her in the
Spirit, speak it
forth and
declare it forth
and speak it
into
existence."
In song we go into warfare, and we use
our musical instruments in warfare and
release the anointing and the power of God.
We have looked at that in a lot of detail in a teaching all on it's own
as we considered releasing the anointing through music and through
song and moving into spiritual warfare.
19
These are some of the things you are going to still be covering in
this course as we continue using the talents that God has given us.
But not only the talents. I don't care if you do not have a good
singing voice. There comes a power in music as you sing forth, as you
speak forth. And if you can play a musical instrument as you use that
you release the anointing power of God to go forth into the earth.
20
You are speaking forth the word of the Lord. You are taking what
God has put in you and you are speaking it forth. You are speaking it
forth to people. You are speaking it forth to the creation. You are
speaking it forth to the kingdom of darkness. You are speaking it
forth into the earth. You are speaking it forth to the angels. You are
speaking God's prophetic word out into the earth. And God says when
His word goes forth in that way, it is going to be like the rain. It's
going to bring growth. It's going to bring results. It's not going to
return empty. It's going to do the thing it was sent for.
21The Word Must be Sent Forth
22
The prophet is given a word from the Lord. And that word only
becomes effective when it is sent forth in the world. Until it is sent
forth it is a hidden word. If God has given you a revelation and given
you a word and you have hidden it in your heart and you've carried it
about with you, it brings no results until it is sent forth in words or in
action. And that's where the prophet requires wisdom on how to send
it forth. We have tried to look at some of these principles here and
we've seen that it takes wisdom, it takes understanding and it
takes a bit of maturity. And it takes training
for a prophet to learn to use. It takes a bit of
training to learn to hear, but once you've
learned to hear, you also need to be trained
how to speak forth what you hear.
23
"it brings no
results until it
is sent forth in
words or in
action"
So that is why the prophet not only needs
to go through a time of preparation, where
God has brought him to the place where he
is ready to be used. But as God begins to
use him and pour forth revelation into him,
the prophet needs to go through a time of
training where he learns how to take those
things that he's learned, and he knows how to use them, and to pour
them forth, and to speak them forth into the earth. When he comes
to that then he can be released. Then he can be unleashed and God
can send him forth into the earth. And wherever he goes he is open
to hear from the Lord and he is open to speak forth what God gives to
him.
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1:1 Prophetic Listening
1:3 Listening
1:6 Seven Ways of
Listening
1:8 The Spiritual Urim
and Thummim
1:23 Receiving Out of
Your Spirit
1:25 Effects in the Soul
1:27 Going by Feelings
1:30 Using the Urim in
Prayer
1:33 Receiving in the
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2:1 Dreams and Visions
2:5 Receiving Through
Dreams
2:8 Internal and
External Dreams
2:10 Dream Symbolism
2:13 Internal Dreams
2:20 The Father Image
2:22 Spouses
2:24 Family Members
2:27 First Love
2:29 Vehicles and
Movement
2:31 Male and Female
Characters
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2:34 External Dreams
2:37 Dark Sayings and
Figurative Speech
2:39 Differentiating
Internal and External
Dreams
2:43 Dreams That are
External and Internal
2:49 Healing and
Purging Dreams
CHAPTER 3
3:1 Visions
3:7 Trance Visions
3:27 Open Visions
3:30 Prophetic
Utterances
CHAPTER 4
4:1 Other Tongues
4:14 Interpreting
Tongues
4:24 Prophecy
4:36 Two Types of
Prophecy
4:38 General Prophecy
4:40 Personal Prophecy
CHAPTER 5
5:1 Angels
5:5 Messenger Angels
5:11 Angelic Influence
5:17 Guardian Angels
CHAPTER 6
6:1 Journaling
6:21 Through Normal
Speech
6:26 Speaking Through
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6:30 Writing Your
Dialogue
6:39 How To Use
Journaling Daily
CHAPTER 7
7:1 The Inner Voice
7:12 The Audible Voice
7:19 Face to Face
Relationship
7:27 Entering into the
Love Relationship
7:34 Spiritual Maturity
7:49 Conclusion
Prophetic
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8:1 Prophetic
Intercession
8:3 What is
Intercession?
8:10 The Four P's of
Prayer
8:18 Praise
8:29 Jehoshaphat and
David
8:32 Coming Into the
Throne Room
8:38 Prophetic
Intercessors
8:42 Using Music
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9:1 Petition
9:12 Praying According
to God's Will
9:24 Recognizing God's
Plan
9:29 Praying in Faith
9:37 God Works
Through People
9:42 Praying on Behalf
of Another
CHAPTER 10
(3)
10:1 Penitence
10:11 Repenting on
Behalf of Others
10:20 Breaking Curses
Over Others
CHAPTER 11
(4)
11:15 Waiting on God
for Direction
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Understanding The
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12:1 Understanding the
Anointing
12:4 The Anointing Will
Show
12:12 Searching for
Answers
12:15 Change of Ideas
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12:22
Priests
12:27
Kings
12:33
12:35
12:43
12:45
Anointing Oil
Anointing for
Anointing for
Mighty Exploits
Gideon
Samson
David
CHAPTER 13
Understanding The
Anointing (2)
13:1 The External
Anointing
13:8 Transferring the
Anointing
13:11 New Testament
Effects
13:13 Prophecy and
Tongues
13:18 The Anointing
Affects the Body
13:24 It Causes Miracles
13:26 Evidence in
Speech
13:33 Tongues in the
New Testament
13:38 External Anointing
and Speech Linked
13:41 Old Testament
Anointing Influenced by
Works
13:44 Something
Greater Offered
13:49 Sending the
Comforter
13:57 Spirit Living
Within, Not Just Upon
CHAPTER 14
Understanding The
Anointing (3)
14:1 The Inner
Anointing
14:5 Water of the Spirit
14:9 Rivers Flowing Out
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14:17 External and
Internal Combined
14:21 Peter Taps the
Power
14:31 External Only in
the Old Testament
14:33 Old Testament
Given to Select People
Only
CHAPTER 15
Understanding The
Anointing (4)
15:1 Corporate
Anointing
15:8 Two or More People
Together
15:11 Potential for a
Bomb
15:25 Anointing Given
Once Only
15:43 Top Up
Continually
Prophetic
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CHAPTER 16
Prophetic Music (1)
16:1 Prophetic Music
16:4 Music Brings Things
to Life
16:10 Music Adds Power
16:13 Music Has Power
Over Creation
16:17 Music and
Happiness Synonymous
16:21 The Start of Music
16:29 Music the
Foundation of the Earth
16:33 Satan Was the
Morning Star
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16:39 Worship Angels
16:44 Sounds of
Creation
CHAPTER 17
Prophetic Music (2)
17:1 Instruments Based
on Creation
17:6 Music in Everything
17:11 Resonance
17:15 Spiritual
Resonance Needed
17:19 The Candle Test
17:25 Musical
Frequencies
17:28 Animals Have
Higher Frequency
17:30 Spiritual Dog
Frequency
17:33 Releasing
Anointing in Music
17:36 Tune to the
Frequency
17:45 Most People Do
Not Have It
CHAPTER 18
Prophetic Music (3)
18:1 Speech vs. Music
18:3 Music Flows
18:5 Music is Orderly
18:8 Music Changes
Emotions
18:10 Happy Music
18:14 The Blues
18:16 Country Music
18:18 Romantic Music
18:22 Satan a Master
Musician
18:25 The Spirit Behind
the Music
18:30 Anointed
Drummer
18:33 Battle Music
18:37 Music in Our
Bodies
18:40 Recreating the
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Prophetic Music (4)
19:1 Music Creates
Atmosphere
19:10 Musical Templates
19:15 It Reminds of the
Past
19:19 A Reminder of My
Youth
19:25 Duplicate Musical
Styles
19:31 One Special
Sound
Prophetic
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Prophetic Praise And
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20:2 How it Began
20:5 Dream of White
Drums
20:11 The Spirit Taught
Me
20:15 An Early Start
20:20 Learning in the
Meetings
20:23 No Dependence
on Yourself
20:26 God is a God of
Variety
20:29 Vision of Rivers of
Praise
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21:1 Why music is so
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21:2 Ministering to the
Lord
21:6 Music Causes Unity
21:9 Praise Brings
Revival Anointing
21:13 Turn Music
Against Satan
21:15 Praise and
Worship is For Everyone
21:18 Release Through
Words and Actions
21:21 Vision of a Dance
with the Lord
CHAPTER 22
Worship (3)
22:1 Using the Senses in
Ministry
22:3 Taste
22:5 Use of Emotions
22:10 Smell
22:15 Vision
22:18 Hearing
22:22 Listen to the
Music in the Music
22:27 Use Any
Instrument
CHAPTER 23
Worship (4)
23:1 Play for Jesus Only
23:6 Use What You Have
23:10 King David's
Foolishness
23:14 Praise Lifts You
Up
23:16 A Terrible Down
Time
23:20 Praise Took Us
Through
23:26 Look From His
Eyes
23:30 Praise Overcomes
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23:34 Choose the
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CHAPTER 24
Worship (5)
24:1 Using Music in
Warfare
24:3 Be Spiritually
Sensitive
24:5 Call to War is
Immediate
24:9 Discern the Demon
24:11 The Inner
Anointing
24:15 How to Release
the Anointing
24:18 David's Powerful
Words
24:22 Release in Words
and Actions
24:24 Fight in Unity
24:27 Team Action
24:31 Giant in Armor
24:33 Power of a United
Team
24:37 Get Your Backs
Covered in Warfare
CHAPTER 25
Worship (6)
25:1 Music in
Intercession
25:4 Praise Takes You to
the Throne Room
25:9 Sorrowful Singing
25:12 Singing Affects
Your Emotions
25:14 Intercessory
Warfare
25:18 Praise Brings
Change in You
25:20 Leave the Plateau
Through Praise
25:25 David's Dedicated
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25:30 A Kingdom Built
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Worship (7)
26:1 Make Music Your
Foundation
26:7 Spiritual Songs
26:10 Singing in
Tongues
26:14 Perfect Harmony
and Unity
26:18 Tapping the Inner
Stream
26:21 Learning to
Harmonize
26:28 Step Out in Faith
26:35 Let the Holy Spirit
Teach You
26:37 You Can Have it
All
26:40 Give Him
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1:1 What the Prophet
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1:5 Why the
Preparation?
1:10 Removing the Taint
of the Flesh
1:12 Fleshly strength
and independence
1:15 Natural Abilities
1:16 Natural Intellect
1:18 Natural Personality
Skills
1:20 Natural Strength of
Will
1:22 Reliance on
Physical Strengths
1:24 Good Looks
1:26 Family Heritage
1:30 Popularity
1:34 Fleshly Weakness
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1:36 Insecurity
1:38 Fear of Man
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The Prophetic
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2:1 Need for Acceptance
2:3 Physical Inferiority
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2:9 Unpopularity
2:11 When the
Preparation
2:13 From the womb
2:18 During Childhood
2:21 Make Believe World
2:24 Childhood Traumas
2:26 During Adolescence
2:30 During Adulthood
2:31 Failure in
Relationships
2:33 Failure in Work,
Social and Church
2:35 Length of the
Preparation
2:37 Dealing With
Insecurities
2:39 Then Follows Pride
CHAPTER 3
The Prophetic
Preparation (3)
3:1 How the Preparation
3:15 The Spirit is the
Source
3:17 Releasing In
Actions and Words
3:22 Dealings With the
Soul
3:27 God's Order of
Spirit, Soul, Body
3:31 Getting the Spirit
to Dominate
3:34 Crunch No 1 - The
Emotions
Mind
Will
3:47 The Pride
3:51 The Soul Not
Destroyed
3:58 Refining Like Gold
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The Prophetic
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4:1 When Does It End?
4:4 New Level, New
Devil
4:7 Aspiring to Greater
Things
4:12 The Body
4:15 Bodily Exercise
4:17 Becoming Efficient
4:22 Learning to Excel
4:27 A Price to Pay
4:31 Developing the
Spirit
4:34 Developing the
Soul
4:36 Developing the
Body
4:39 Death by
Crucifixion
4:43 No Suicide by
Crucifixion
4:49 Death by
Suffocation
4:52 The Necessity for
Leg-Breaking
4:55 Learning to Die
Like Jesus
4:60 Responding to
Dealings
4:67 Training Ends
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5:1 Templates and
Triggers
5:5 The Computer
Within Us
5:36 Past Programming
5:46 Sinful Templates
5:58 Performance
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5:61 Saturation Point
5:64 The Power of Sin
CHAPTER 6
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6:1 Forming Templates
6:3 Building Childhood
Templates
6:8 The Mother's Role
6:14 Absent Mothers
6:18 Dominant Mothers
6:22 Adolescence
6:26 Breaking Free of
Mother
6:29 The Father's Role
6:31 Absent Fathers
6:37 Weak Fathers
6:42 Dominating Men
CHAPTER 7
(3)
7:1 Dealing With Past
Templates
7:5 No Simple Solution
7:7 Finding Templates
7:11 Through Pressure
7:15 By Conviction
7:21 The Dealings of
God
7:24 Not a Punishment
7:26 Dealing with
Templates
7:28 Role of the Word of
God
7:44 Rearrangement
During Sleep
7:65 Feelings Come
From the Mind
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8:1 Role of the Holy
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8:8 The Ministry of Inner
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8:11 My Personal
Experience
8:21 Wrong Approach to
Inner Healing
8:33 Using Gifts of
Revelation
8:40 Spiritual Prison
8:45 The Sin Question
8:50 Our Position in
Christ
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9:1 Resurrection is a
Choice
9:3 Confusion and Death
9:6 Mountain in the Way
9:11 Victory Over It
9:16 From Bad to Good
9:18 Death is Powerless
Over You
9:26 Strength of Sin is
the Law
9:28 Face the Mountain
9:30 Satan Brings Death
9:32 A Chance to Rise
Up
9:35 A Death is a Death
9:46 Don't Grovel. Rise
Up
9:49 When Do You
Resurrect?
9:52 Kill the Flesh
9:55 The Flesh Dies, the
Spirit Moves in
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Resurrection Is A
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10:1 How Do You
Resurrect?
10:4 Jesus Used His
Authority
10:8 Stand Up!
10:12 Use Your
Weapons
10:18 Satan Laughs at
You
10:20 Take Action
10:24 Don't Just
Resurrect - Do More
10:27 Move Into Your
Authority
10:33 Resurrection is a
Choice
10:37 You Need to
Ascend
10:40 Jesus Has More
for You
10:44 Use Your
Imagination
CHAPTER 11
Resurrection Is A
Choice (3)
11:1 It is in the Mind
11:3 Don't Limit Your
Vision
11:8 The Lord Gives the
Desire
11:12 Build the Pictures
11:19 He is a Big God
11:26 Go Heal His
People
11:29 Let Him Live in
You
11:32 Let His Power
Flow
11:35 Be Glorified in
Power
11:38 Make it Yours
11:41 Where Are You?
11:44 See Yourself as a
Blessing
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Prophetic Training (1)
12:1 Prophetic Training
12:5 Prophetic Ministry
12:18 Three Categories
of Prophet
12:22 Elijah's Appearing
12:34 Stages of
Preparation
12:38 Trained by God
CHAPTER 13
13:1 The Brook Cherith
13:7 My Own Experience
13:52 Cherith Comes to
an End
CHAPTER 14
14:1 The Next Lesson Humility
14:12 Her Son Died
14:16 Boldness and
Courage
14:23 On Mount Carmel
14:31 Jezebel's Threat
14:39 The Test of
Recognition
14:46 The Final Test Letting Go
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Prophetic Mentoring (1)
15:1 Prophetic
Mentoring
15:5 The Next Level of
Prophetic Training
15:7 The Way of
Education
15:9 Discipling - the
Scriptural Method
15:12 Moses and Joshua
15:18 Elijah and Elisha
15:26 Paul and Timothy
15:32 The Master
Trainer
15:38 Discipleship
Principles
15:40 The Master
Chooses
15:43 The Disciple is a
Servant
15:46 A Close Working
Relationship
15:49 The Master
Imparts All He Has
15:51 The Disciple
Becomes Equal to the
Master
15:53 The Master
Instructs and Tests
15:58 The Master is
Removed
CHAPTER 16
16:1 The Cost of
Training
16:3 Giving Up What
You Are Doing
16:5 Commitment to the
Master Alone
16:7 The Master Will
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16:9 The Master Will
Discipline and Correct
16:16 Following the
Master
16:26 Ignoring the
Remarks of Others
16:31 Sticking With the
Master
16:33 The Separation
CHAPTER 17
17:1 The Training of
Elisha
17:4 Burning the
Bridges
17:27 Testing Time
17:30 Test One
17:43 Test Two
17:49 Test Three
17:52 The Point of No
Return
17:62 The Responsibility
of Being a Mentor
17:68 Counting the Cost
of Discipleship
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CHAPTER 1
The Structure Of Satan's
Kingdom (1)
1:1 The Structure of
Satan's Kingdom
1:4 National Call Up
1:8 Counter-Insurgence
Warfare
1:11 Satan Uses Fear
Warfare
1:17 Satan's Military
Structure
1:19 Ranking in the
Kingdom of Darkness
1:28 Principalities
1:30 Power demons
1:33 Rulers
1:35 Princes and
Wickedness in High Places
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Our Victory In Christ
Strategies Of War
Bringing Deliverance To Others
Prophetic Deception
CHAPTER 2
Kingdom (2)
2:1 Satan's Battlefields
2:3 Battle in the
Heavenlies
2:5 Satan is Not
Omnipresent
2:7 Counsel of
Wickedness
2:10 Know Your
Authority in Christ
2:12 Personal
Confrontation With Demons
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2:15 Zealous For the
Lord
2:17 Demon
Manifestation
2:29 Deception
2:32 Demon in My
Fiancée
CHAPTER 3
Kingdom (3)
3:1 Confrontation with
the Counsel of Wickedness
3:5 Drilling through Rock
3:13 Territorial Spirits
3:22 Battle in the World The World System
3:25 Control by Finance
3:28 Control through
Politics
3:31 Control through the
Religion
3:37 Battle in the Hearts
of Men
3:39 Attack on the Mind
CHAPTER 4
Kingdom (4)
4:1 Attack on the Flesh
4:7 Defensive Warfare
4:8 The Armour of God
4:10 Deliverance
4:21 Personal Invitation
Given
4:42 Dealing With the
Root
4:47 Using the Word
4:56 Submit, Confess
and Resist
4:61 Using Revelation
CHAPTER 5
Kingdom (5)
5:1 Dealing with Curses
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5:3 Man has authority in
the earth
5:6 Satan Works With
Man
5:10 Binding Others
5:17 Contamination
5:23 Break Spiritual
Links
5:25 Offensive Warfare
in Deliverance
5:32 Casting Demons out
of Unbelievers
5:38 The Believer's
Position in Christ
CHAPTER 6
Kingdom (6)
Through Intercession
6:3 Be Led
6:11 Using the Prophetic
Key
6:19 Go to the Top
6:29 You Have the
Authority!
Our Victory in
Christ
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CHAPTER 7
Our Victory In Christ (1)
7:1 Our Victory in Christ
7:4 Former Authority
Figures
7:12 The Believer's
Position in Christ
7:14 Under the Dominion
of the World
7:16 Over the Dominion
of this World
7:20 We are in Christ
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7:23 Authority Over All
the Enemy
7:27 The Power of
Authority
7:31 The Power of Ability
CHAPTER 8
8:1 Defrocking the
Enemy
8:8 Jesus Took Away
Satan's Power
8:14 Dissolving the
Enemy
8:23 The Weapons of
Warfare
8:26 We Stand as
Righteous
8:29 The Name of Jesus
8:31 Acting in His Name
8:37 The Name - Your
Greatest Weapon
8:42 The Blood of the
Lamb
8:46 Satan Hates the
Blood
CHAPTER 9
9:1 Using the Word - An
Offensive Weapon
9:8 The Power of the
Indwelling Spirit
9:13 Personal Experience
with Fear
9:21 Take the Word
9:32 Victory over Fear
9:34 Know your Position
in Christ
9:41 Let the Word
Penetrate
CHAPTER 10
10:1 The Allied Forces
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10:3 Angelic Help
10:5 The Archangels
10:8 The Warrior Angels
10:17 The Archangel
Michael
10:29 God Commands
the Angels
10:33 Angels Assist
War
The
Strategies of
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CHAPTER 11
Strategies Of War (1)
11:1 Strategies of War
11:4 Sports Similar to
Warfare
11:8 Know Your
Opponent's Weaknesses
and Strengths
11:11 Use Attack and
Defence
11:14 The Council of
Wickedness
11:18 Apollyon
11:21 He Attacks the
Mind
11:24 The Use of Fear
11:26 Fear Neutralizes
Love
11:29 Physical Attack to
Produce Fear
11:32 The Example of
Job
CHAPTER 12
12:1 Your Spiritual
Armor
12:8 Gird Your Loins with
Truth
12:12 Satan, the Father
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of Lies
12:17 Lying Produces
Fear
12:22 The Breastplate of
Righteousness
12:31 The Gospel of
Peace
12:35 The Shield of Faith
12:41 The Helmet of
Salvation
12:50 The Sword of the
Spirit
12:52 Speak the Word
Out
12:55 Use the Blood
CHAPTER 13
13:1 Pray with All Prayer
13:5 Satan Hates Praise
13:9 Use the Word to
Praise
13:14 The Prayer of
Penitence
13:26 Prayers of Petition
13:31 Proclamation
13:34 Pharaoh - Leader
of the World System
13:40 Victory Over the
System
13:46 Lucifer - Master of
Deception
13:48 He Twists the
Word
13:55 Religious Thinking
CHAPTER 14
14:1 He Uses Legalism
14:4 Government
Influence in the Church
14:13 The Shepherding
Movement
14:22 World Influence in
the Church
14:24 Meditate on the
Word
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14:30 Influence of Love
14:42 Lay a New
Foundation
14:45 Apostolic
Movement
14:47 Role of Prophets
14:51 Satan Uses Man
14:59 Man Given the
Authority
14:63 Counter His Attack
with the Word
14:67 He Licenses People
Against You
14:69 Contamination of
Man's Spirit
14:72 He Uses
Persecution
CHAPTER 15
15:1 Blood Covenant
Relationship
15:7 Come with Boldness
15:11 Insecurity
15:17 The Word of Your
Testimony
15:20 Use Humor
Against Satan
Bringing
Deliverance
to Others
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CHAPTER 16
Bringing Deliverance To
Others (1)
16:1 Bringing
Deliverance To Others
16:4 Dealing with
Practicalities
16:8 Deliverance Ministry
16:14 Intercession
Ministry in Warfare
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16:18 Know Your Enemy
16:21 Helping Others Get
Victory
16:23 Stupid Stories
16:28 Satan Enters
Through Sin Only
16:31 People are
Ignorant about Satan
16:33 We are Redeemed
CHAPTER 17
Others (2)
17:1 Difference Between
Believers and Unbelievers
17:5 Answers in a Book
17:9 Challenge
17:13 Satan Takes
Complete Control
17:15 Demons Cast out
of Unbelievers
17:20 No Such Thing as
Possession
17:24 Demons Cause
Lust and Lies
17:29 People Go
Overboard
17:35 Do Not Get
Paranoid
17:38 Dealing with
Demons
17:43 Take Away His
Licence
17:46 Do Not Argue with
Demons
17:57 You have Given
Him Permission
17:60 Renounce the Hold
You Have Given
17:62 Remove the Tree
CHAPTER 18
Others (3)
18:1 Deal with the
Entrance Point
18:4 Two Aspects to
Bondage
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18:8 Licence by Family
Generations
18:10 Contamination
from People
18:12 Idols
18:16 Do's and Don'ts
18:18 Pray out Loud
18:21 They Are Not
Victims
18:23 Victorious in Christ
18:27 They Must Ask for
Help
18:31 Counter Attack
18:39 Mean Business
18:41 Simon the
Sorcerer
18:52 Do Not Permit
Manifestations
CHAPTER 19
Others (4)
19:1 The Person is the
Key
19:3 Be Quiet!
19:5 Personal Story
19:14 Counsel by the
Word
19:16 Follow Through to
Victory
19:20 Remove the
Demons
19:22 Break all Spiritual
Links
19:24 Intercessory
Warfare
19:26 God Moved by
Faith
19:29 Remove the Blind
Spot
19:31 Urim and
Thummim
19:37 Be Led
19:39 Do Not Overrule
their Will
19:43 Breaking Curses
19:50 Licensing a Curse
19:52 Send Back
Destructive Words
19:56 Do it in the Light
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Others (5)
20:1 Use the Prophetic
Key
20:3 Using Vision
20:10 Prophesying in
Prayer
20:16 Speak Things into
Existence
20:22 Deal with High
Levels
20:30 Use the Angels
20:35 Use the Word
20:46 See the Victory
20:50 Princes of
Darkness
20:52 Principalities
20:54 Deal with the
Prince
Prophetic
Deception
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CHAPTER 21
Prophetic Deception (1)
21:1 Prophetic Deception
21:4 Assessing Others
21:8 No Gift of
Discernment
21:11 We Cannot See
Our Own Weaknesses
21:14 The Reason for
Deception
21:16 The Challenging
Counterfeit
21:21 The Challenge
21:23 Confusion and
Turmoil
21:26 Counterfeit Looks
Real
21:28 A Copy of the
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21:30 Roaring Lion or
Angel of Light?
21:33 Deception in You
21:36 Deception is
Subtle
21:38 Counter
Insurgence by Satan
21:40 He Attacks the
Mind
21:42 He Uses the
Senses
21:45 Impressions on
the Mind
21:48 He Accesses Your
Soul
21:50 Negative Emotions
21:57 He Attacks Your
Will
CHAPTER 22
22:1 The Eastern
Shepherd
22:3 The Butcher
22:8 Deception in My
Home
22:13 Satan is a Liar
22:15 Fear Tactics
22:17 Love Overcomes
Fear
22:21 God Wants Satan's
Plans Thwarted
22:25 God Not the
Author of Destruction
22:30 Guilt and
Condemnation
22:34 God Wants to
Build You Up
22:36 Recognition and
Acceptance
22:41 Love of Things
22:43 Twisting the Word
CHAPTER 23
23:1 Counterfeit
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Prophetic Listening
23:3 No Revelations on
Demand
23:8 A Lost Child
23:13 No Preconceived
Ideas
23:16 No Dogmatic
Doctrines
23:18 Part of Preparation
23:20 No Fleeces
23:27 Develop Senses
Through Use
23:31 Senses Can Be
Heightened
23:40 Practice Listening
in Safety
23:44 Submit
Revelations for Vetting
23:48 Keep a Diary
23:51 Test the Spirits
23:56 Gentle Nudge
23:61 Forceful Voice
CHAPTER 24
24:1 Ways of Listening
24:2 Urim and Thummim
24:4 Emotions Can Be
Controlled
24:13 Dreams
24:15 Not All Evil
Dreams are Satanic
24:18 Watch
Interpretations
24:25 Visions
24:27 Why Dark
Sayings?
24:30 Prophetic
Utterances
24:32 A One Track Mind
24:35 On Your Own Bat
24:39 Stop When God
Stops
CHAPTER 25
25:1 Angels and Demons
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25:3 Do Not Talk to
Demons
25:9 Be Careful about
Talking to Angels
25:11 Angels and
Prophecy
25:18 Journaling
25:20 Seek the Lord
25:22 Do Not Ask for
Revelation
25:27 Let it Flow
25:30 It Concerns You
25:33 No Arrogance
25:38 Give it a Test
25:40 The Inner Voice
25:43 Face to Face
Relationship
25:45 Two or Three
Witnesses
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CHAPTER 1
The Prophetic Office (1)
1:1 The Prophetic Office
1:3 The Coming of the
Big Names
1:8 Prophetic Questions
1:16 Differences
Between Ministry and
Office
1:24 The Gift of
Prophecy
1:33 The Word of
Wisdom
1:39 The Word of
Knowledge
1:54 The Gift of Faith
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CHAPTER 2
2:1 Symbols of the
Prophetic Ministry
2:3 The Harp
2:6 The Scroll
2:10 The Telescope
2:12 The Ram's Horn
2:15 The Prophetic Office
2:18 Imparted by the
Lord
2:20 Rising up from
Obscurity
2:24 The Ugly Duckling
2:27 Army Officer
The Prophetic Office
The Prophetic Key
Prophetic Rejection
Using the Prophetic Anointing
The Prophetic Child
The Prophetic Ministry In Marriage
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2:35 Company Directors
2:37 Officers of the
Universal Church
2:48 Preparation of the
Bride
CHAPTER 3
3:1 How to Assert
Authority
3:5 Company Directors
3:8 Local Church vs
Universal Church
3:11 The Local Church
3:23 Appointment of
Elders
3:26 Moses' Appointment
of Elders
3:32 God's Appointments
3:36 Appointment of a
Prophet
CHAPTER 4
4:1 Local Church
Prophetic Ministry
Office
4:10 The Universal
Church
4:12 Exhortation and
Encouragement
4:20 Prophetic Warning
and Prediction
4:22 Bringing the
Presence of God
4:24 Prophets to the
Nations
Key
4:28 Summary
4:30 Local Church
Prophecy
4:33 Universal Church
Prophecy
4:40 When is the Key
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Received?
4:42 Mentorship
4:45 What About
Covering?
The Prophetic
Key
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CHAPTER 5
The Prophetic Key (1)
5:1 The Prophetic Key
5:4 Keys
5:6 Keys Have Power
5:9 The Master Key
5:11 Keys are Important
5:15 Symbol of Maturity
5:18 Spiritual Keys
5:21 Satan is Kept Out
5:23 We Have Satan's
Key
5:26 Keys of the
Kingdom
5:28 Adam Had the Key
to Life
5:31 Satan Wanted That
Key
5:34 Jesus Retrieved the
Key
5:40 Jesus Took them
Back
5:44 He Gives Us the
Keys
CHAPTER 6
6:1 Peter Given the Key
for Salvation
6:3 Peter and the Key for
the Gentiles
6:6 Paul Given the Key
for Teaching
6:9 The Prophetic Key
6:11 Specific Key for
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Prophets
6:17 Maturity Needed for
Prophetic Key
6:19 Authority to Restrict
Blessing
6:26 Authority to
Release Ministries
6:35 Opening Doors for
Others
6:39 Speaking Blessings
and Curses
6:44 Not for Personal
Advantage
CHAPTER 7
7:1 The New Testament
Prophet
7:3 Issuing a Curse
7:8 Curses in the New
Testament
7:12 Peter Used the Key
7:19 Licensing of Angels
7:25 Licensing Warrior
Angels
7:28 Authority to Bring
Blessing
7:31 Speak Blessing
7:33 The Reward of a
Prophet
CHAPTER 8
8:1 When is the Key
Received?
8:3 On Completion of the
Preparation
8:8 How the Key is
Received
8:16 How to Use the Key
8:17 Never for Selfish
Purposes
8:19 A Call to Death, Not
Exaltation
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Prophetic Rejection (1)
9:1 Prophetic Rejection
9:5 The World of Super
Heroes
9:9 Moses
9:12 Samuel
9:14 Causes of Rejection
9:16 Because of Spiritual
Revelation
9:20 The Lord Told Me
9:23 Your Prayer Life
9:27 Tongues
9:32 Prophecies
9:36 Separation and
Holiness
9:39 The Tabernacle
9:44 The Release of the
Anointing
9:48 Prophetic
Intercession
9:57 Prophetic Dreams
and Visions
CHAPTER 10
10:1 The Effects of
Rejection
10:4 Hiding Away
10:6 Self Promotion
10:9 Performance
Orientation
10:16 Learning to be
Transparent
10:20 Conforming
10:25 Physical Effects
10:27 The Need for
Acceptance
CHAPTER 11
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11:1 Responding
Correctly to Rejection
11:3 Rejoicing
11:11 Let it Go
11:40 Do Not Try to
Defend Yourself
11:43 Passing the Tests
11:47 Humility and
Transparency
11:53 Vindication of
Moses
11:72 Not Taking
Rejection Personally
11:78 Paul's Example
11:97 Your Own
Experience
Using the
Prophetic
Anointing
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CHAPTER 12
Using The Prophetic
Anointing (1)
Anointing
12:3 Two Kinds of
Anointings
12:6 Old and New
Testament Anointings
12:7 In the Old
Testament
12:10 In the New
Testament
12:12 External Anointing
- Like a Rainstorm
12:15 Causes a Surge
12:18 The Lord Taught
Me
12:20 A Channel Needed
12:22 The Underground
Stream
12:26 Questions on
Using the Anointing
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12:29 Set Up Your
Windmill
12:33 The Lord Provides
the Wind
12:36 Example - The
Day of Pentecost
CHAPTER 13
Using The Prophetic
Anointing (2)
13:1 Practical Application
13:3 Sink Your Pipe In
13:5 Effort is Needed
13:8 Spiritual Application
13:10 Pray in Tongues
13:14 Create a Channel
13:17 Increase Your
Capacity
13:19 Use the Word
13:24 Be Filled With the
Word
13:27 You Cannot Hide It
13:32 Keep It Primed
and Full
Daily to Keep it Fresh
13:39 Getting to where
God can use you.
13:41 Expect God to use
you.
13:49 Desire to be Used
13:52 Make Yourself
Available
13:54 The Anointing is
For Others
CHAPTER 14
Using The Prophetic
Anointing (3)
14:1 Love is the Key
14:5 Be Sensitive to
Others' Needs
14:10 You Need to Care
14:13 Be Other Oriented
14:18 Preach Under the
Anointing
14:20 Respond to the
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Spirit
14:24 A Personal
Example
14:35 Faith is Needed
14:47 Use Wisdom
14:49 Mentoring is Good
14:52 When I Met
Daphne
14:54 Prophetic Word
14:57 A Baby for Her
14:60 Ability to be a
Mother
14:62 Putting it Together
CHAPTER 15
Using The Prophetic
Anointing (4)
15:1 Delivering a
revelation in the public
meeting.
15:4 Prophesy at right
time
15:6 Be Orderly
15:10 Do not Force Your
Ministry
15:15 Be Gentle as a
Dove
15:18 Do not Act Under
Pressure
15:26 Be Sure of What
You have Seen
15:30 Use Boldness
15:41 Every Ministry
Operates By Faith
15:49 Believe in Yourself
15:54 Do Not Apologize
for Yourself
CHAPTER 16
Using The Prophetic
Anointing (5)
16:1 Handling Negative
Responses
16:12 Handling Rejection
16:22 Be Humble
16:25 Old and New
Testament Prophets
Different
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16:30 Ministering the
Anointing
16:33 Ministering in
Public
16:37 Prophetic
Preaching
16:41 Personal
Experience
16:50 Prophecy
16:52 Follow the Rabbit
16:55 Meeting Potential
Needs
16:58 Personal Ministry
Needed
16:60 Call Out the
Pictures
CHAPTER 17
Using The Prophetic
Anointing (6)
17:1 Individual Ministry
in a Public Meeting
17:4 Do Not Reveal
People's Sins
17:7 An Example from
Jesus
17:11 Private Exposure
of Sin
17:18 Individual Ministry
17:20 Ministry to
Unbelievers
17:23 Ministering to
Sickness in Unbelievers
17:31 Revelation of the
Future
17:33 Ministering in
Counseling
17:40 Prophetic
Counseling
17:44 Transforming
Hurtful Memories
17:48 Minister to the
Child
CHAPTER 18
Using The Prophetic
Anointing (7)
18:1 Dealing with
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Bitterness
18:8 Dealing with Guilt
18:10 Dealing with the
Law of Judgement
18:12 Spiritual
Imprisonment
18:15 Ministering
Deliverance
18:17 Curse on My
Ministry
18:20 Family
Generational Curses
18:24 Be Available
Always
18:26 A Personal
Experience
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CHAPTER 19
The Prophetic Child (1)
19:1 The Prophetic Child
19:3 A Planned
Preparation
19:5 Parents are
Important
19:7 Basic Questions
19:9 Family Generational
Blessing
19:15 He is Not Weird
19:17 Identifying the
Prophetic Child
19:19 He's a
Daydreamer
19:24 Lots of Questions
19:29 Awareness of the
Lord
19:34 Symbolic Thinking
CHAPTER 20
20:1 Steps in Preparing
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Prophetic Children
20:3 He's Hidden Away
20:12 Rejection
20:22 Sacrifice and Loss
20:30 Pressure and
Temptation
20:34 A Personal
Conviction Needed
CHAPTER 21
21:1 Speedening Up the
Process
21:3 Your First Disciple
21:9 Build Faith, Hope
and Love
21:11 Faith
21:19 Love
21:26 Hope
21:28 Give Him Good
Pictures
21:34 Tell Them Who
They are in Christ
CHAPTER 22
22:1 Where you can help
the prophetic child
22:2 Show Them Jesus
22:8 Give Them the
Word
22:12 I Tasted the World
22:16 The Word
Followed Me
22:18 Sudden
Resurrection
22:22 The World is Fake
22:25 What are you
Putting In?
22:28 He Must Go Alone
22:33 Small Beginnings
22:39 Get a Revelation
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CHAPTER 23
Prophetic Ministry In
Marriage (1)
23:1 The Prophetic
Ministry in Marriage
23:3 You Are a Team
23:6 Two Super-glued
Together
23:11 Samson and the
Foxes
23:15 You Were Not
Alone
23:18 Gold Deposit
23:20 Stir Up Your
Partner's Gifts
23:23 Start in the Home
23:26 It is Your Priority
23:29 Power in Unity
23:32 Turn to your
Spouse
CHAPTER 24
Marriage (2)
24:1 Remove
Preconceived Ideas
24:3 Your starting point Speak Blessing
24:7 Remove Negativity
24:10 Build your faith
24:16 Meditate on the
Word.
24:19 Speak Life
24:22 Develop Hope
24:25 See As the Lord
Sees
24:29 Don't Let Satan
Steal From You
24:32 Build Love
24:34 Call it to Life
24:36 Don't Judge and
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Accuse
24:41 Break Your Own
Walls Down
CHAPTER 25
Marriage (3)
25:1 Give Affirmation
25:4 A Sweet Smelling
Rose
25:8 Be Appealing
25:13 Don't Kill the Life
25:15 Woo in Love
25:17 Wives Submit to
Your Husbands
25:26 Submission Will
Change Him
25:32 New Blessings
Coming
25:34 Example of
Protective Husband
CHAPTER 26
Marriage (4)
26:1 Husbands Love
Your Wives
26:3 Wives Were
Nobodies
26:7 Would You Give it
Up?
26:10 Craig Forsook All
26:14 You Are Not the
Same
26:20 You Are Different
and Unique
26:22 How You Do It
26:23 Give Some
Pressure
26:27 Ask Your Spouse
26:33 Humble Yourself
26:37 A Change of Role
26:44 Husbands, Rest on
Your Wives
26:47 Make Her Feel
Special
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CHAPTER 27
Marriage (5)
27:1 Gifts Will Manifest
27:6 Egg Them On and
Nurture Them
27:12 Time For Sacrifice
27:17 Pour Into Your
Spouse
27:23 Learn to Flow
Together
27:25 Pray Together,
Praise together
Together
27:31 Allow Him to
Minister
27:35 Have it All
Chapter 1 - Prophetic Listening - Section 1
PRELUDE TO PROPHETIC OPERATIONS
Prophetic Listening
In This Lecture You Will Learn:
The Seven Ways of Hearing From God
How to Interpret Your Dreams
The ultimate relationship with Jesus
Highlights Of This Lecture Are:
The Spiritual Urim and Thummim
Understanding Dreams and Visions
Using Prophecy and Tongues
Working with Angels
Hearing From God through Journaling
The Inner Voice of God
The Audible Voice
The Face To Face Relationship
By the time you have completed this lecture you will know HOW TO
LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF GOD TO RECEIVE REVELATION IN
SEVEN DIFFERENT WAYS and you will be able develop a sensitivity
in the Spirit that will cause you to receive revelation in many different
ways.
The Different Kinds of Prayer
Using General Prayer Types
The Unique Prayer of the Prophet
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What is Intercession?
Using the Prayer of Praise
Faith and the Will of God in Petition
Repenting For Yourself and Others
Prophetic Decree in Prayer
Praying ON BEHALF OF someone else
By the time you have completed this lecture you will know WHY
PRAYER IS SUCH A STRONG ORIENTATION IN YOU AS A
PROPHET and you will be able to function efficiently as an
Intercessor, releasing God's will and purpose into the earth and in the
lives of others.
Understanding The Anointing
Symbols of the Anointing
The Two Kinds of Anointing
How To Form a Spiritual Bomb
The Anointing on Old Testament heroes of faith
How the anointing affects us
The Place of Tongues in the Anointing
The greater anointing of the New Testament
Rivers of Living Water
The Corporate Anointing
By the time you have completed this lecture you will know HOW THE
ANOINTING OF GOD FUNCTIONS IN TWO DISTINCT WAYS and
you will be able to identify some of the effects that you have
experienced of the anointing in the Spirit.
Prophetic Music
Where Music Originated
How To Recognize the Unheard Frequencies
The Effects of Music
Music and Creation
Where it all began
Musical instruments and their origins
Identifying the Spiritual 'dog' Frequency.
Musical Styles
Musical Templates
By the time you have completed this lecture you will know WHERE
MUSIC COMES FROM AND WHY IT IS SUCH A POWERFUL
FORCE and you will learn why certain kinds of music affect you more
than others.
Prophetic Praise and Worship
Why Music is So Powerful
How To Use Your Senses in Ministry
How Use Music For Warfare
The Power of Praise
It Began With A Set of White Drums
Praise Brings Revival
Using Senses and Emotions
King David Leads the Way
Taking Up Your Inner Weapons
Team Action
Intercessory Music
Letting The Holy Spirit Teach You
By the time you have completed this lecture you will know THE
POWER THERE IS IN PRAISE and how you can use what God has
given you to make music and to release His power.
What You Will Learn in Prophetic Training
PRELUDE TO PROPHETIC TRAINING
The Prophetic Preparation
How God deals with both your strengths and
weaknesses
When Prophetic Preparation begins
How Preparation is carried out
When Preparation ends
The problem with the flesh
Natural strengths that must be addressed
Breaking your weaknesses and insecurities
Preparations at each stage of life
Dealings with spirit, soul and body
Die Already - facing the cross
How to avoid getting your legs broken
By the time you have completed this lecture you will know WHY YOU
HAVE FACED SUCH INTENSE PRESSURES AND DIFFICULTIES
IN LIFE and you will be able to identify areas that the Lord has had
to bring to death in you. This lecture will help launch you beyond
preparation and into training.
WARNING! You will face even more intense preparation once you
have been through this lecture, so get ready to be stretched and
made ready by the Lord
Templates and Triggers
The similarities between you and a computer
The role of your father and mother in building templates
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Locating and removing templates
The computer within us
Sinful templates and Performance Orientation
Absent and Dominant Mothers
Absent, Weak and Dominating Fathers
Finding your templates the hard way
Templates and Inner Healing
Templates and Sin
By the time you have completed this lecture you will know WHAT
CAUSES SOME OF THE UNCONTROLLABLE EMOTIONS YOU
HAVE EXPERIENCED IN THE PAST and you will be able to not only
break free of these yourself, but also help others to identify and
overcome their templates and triggers.
Resurrection Is A Choice
Where death originates
Why and when to resurrect
After resurrection comes glory
Facing the big mountain
Stop groveling and stand up
Changing Your Thinking
Rising in Glory
Going forth in power
By the time you have completed this lecture you will know THAT
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SIT AND WAIT FOR SOMETHING TO
HAPPEN but you will be able to rise up and shake off the deaths of
the past and enter into a new life in your ministry.
Prophetic Training
The three categories of prophet
How God trains the prophet
The specific stages of training
How a prophet is trained and qualified
Elijah, Elisha and the Sons of the Prophets
The Cherith Experience
The Zarephath Experience
The Carmel Experience
Dealing with Jezebel
By the time you have completed this lecture you will BE ABLE TO
IDENTIFY HOW GOD HAS BEEN TRAINING YOU and you know
how far you are along in your training as a prophet. This lecture will
tell you whether you have already begun the intensive training for
Prophetic Office, or whether this is still something that must take
place in the future.
Prophetic Mentoring
The
The
The
The
difference between education and mentorship
order for mentorship
price of mentorship
results of mentorship
The
The
The
The
The
Scriptural principle of discipling
role of the master
role of the disciple
responsibilities of the disciple
tests of the master
The separation of master and disciple
By the time you have completed this lecture you will know WHY IT
IS SO IMPORTANT TO BE MENTORED AND TO MENTOR OTHERS
and you will be able to prepare yourself to receive mentorship so that
the Lord can bring you someone to take this role. If you are already
in a mentorship relationship, you will understand what is happening
and what will happen in this relationship in the future.
What You Will Learn in Prophetic Warfare
PRELUDE TO PROPHETIC WARFARE
The Structure of Satan's Kingdom
The principle of C.O.I.N. warfare in the heavenlies
The levels of authority in Satan's kingdom
How Satan controls the world
Offensive Prophetic Warfare
Counter Insurgence Warfare - The Modern Way
The Four Levels of Demon Power
The Council of Wickedness
Territorial Spirits - The World System
The Armor of God - Defensive Warfare
Dealing With Curses
How To Attack Through Intercession
By the time you have completed this lecture you will know HOW THE
KINGDOM OF DARKNESS IS SET UP, how Satan controls the
world, and what you can do as a prophet to launch an offensive
against his kingdom.
Our Victory In Christ
The Believers Position in Christ
How Satan's Power Was Broken
How To Overcome With The Word
Making Use of the Allied Forces
What We Were Before
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What We Are Now In Christ
The Defrocking of Satan
Using the Name of Jesus
The Power in the Blood
The Spirit and the Word
Satan Fears You
Help From Michael and the Warrior Angels
POSITION OF AUTHORITY AND VICTORY THAT YOU HAVE IN
CHRIST and you will be able to overcome any attack from the
enemy, recognizing also the help you get from angelic forces.
The Strategies Of War
War Has Strategies Like A Game of Sport
The Roles of The Infernal Trio
How To Use Your Spiritual Weapons
Fighting To Win
Apollyon And His Attack of Fear
The Spiritual Weapons We Have
Pharaoh and The World System
Lucifer and The Religious System
Overcoming The System
The Importance of Boldness
By the time you have completed this lecture you will know ALL THE
MAIN STRATEGIES THAT SATAN USES TO ATTACK and you will
be able to expose each area and overcome them using the authority
and ministry God has given you.
Bringing Deliverance To Others
The Fallacy of a 'Deliverance Ministry.'
The Challenging Counterfeit
Deliverance The Bible Way
Using Prophetic Gifts To Set People Free
False Ideas about Deliverance
Can A Christian Be Demon-Possessed?
How NOT To Carry Out Deliverance
The Victim Syndrome
Watching Out For Lashbacks
Using The Word First
Using The Prophetic Key
Overcoming At All Levels
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DEMONIZATION IN BELIEVERS AND
UNBELIEVERS and you will be able to set people free of demon
powers without resorting to archaic and dangerous practices of
exorcism. You will be able to use Prophetic Revelation to bring quick
results.
Prophetic Deception
Why Deception Is Inevitable
Things That Predispose Us To Deception
How To Prevent Deception
The Problem of the Blind Spot
Counterfeits Abound
Shepherd or Butcher?
Destruction, Guilt and Fear
Testing The Spirits
The Purpose For Dark Sayings
Learning To Listen Correctly
By the time you have completed this lecture you will BE ABLE TO
IDENTIFY AREAS WHERE YOU WERE LED INTO DECEPTION and
you will be able to recognize when deception is present in others and
how to prevent and overcome it.
What You Will Learn in Prophetic Office
PRELUDE TO PROPHETIC OFFICE
In This Lecture You Will Learn
The difference between Ministry and Office
The symbols that are associated with Prophetic Ministry
The key that symbolizes the Prophetic Office
The differences between the Local and Universal Church
The gifts that should be functioning in you
The harp, scroll, telescope and ram's horn symbols
The ugly duckling syndrome
Changing your image of leadership
How a prophet is appointed
Using the Prophetic Key
Covering and the Prophet
By the time you have completed this lecture you will know WHETHER
YOU HAVE BEEN PLACED IN PROPHETIC OFFICE YET and you
will have one of two goals:
Making yourself ready to be placed in office
or
Learning to use the authority of the Prophetic
Office
The Prophetic Key
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The Keys of the Kingdom related to ministry
The unique key of the Prophet
Issuing of Blessings and Curses
The role of keys in spiritual authority
The keys of Peter and Paul
The authority of the Prophet to withhold blessing
Opening ministry door for others
Curses in the New Testament
Licensing of angels
The reward of a Prophet
AWESOME RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PROPHETIC OFFICE and
the power that you hold in your hands through the Prophetic Key.
Prophetic Rejection
Why the prophet always faces rejection
The bad effects of responding wrongly to rejection
How to respond correctly to rejection
How to NOT be a super hero
What makes a prophet "different."
The need for acceptance and recognition
The dangers of Performance Orientation
How to pass the tests like Moses
Learning to live with rejection
By the time you have completed this lecture you will understand
WHY YOU HAVE FACED SO MUCH REJECTION IN LIFE AND
MINISTRY and instead of complaining you will begin to rejoice, when
you realize why this has taken place.
Using The Prophetic Anointing
How
How
How
How
to
to
to
to
tap into the Internal Anointing
tap into your own inner resources
function in a public meeting
minister to groups and individuals
The two kinds of anointing
How to drill down to your underground stream
How to make yourself ready to flow in the anointing
The role of the Word and Tongues
Using the better way of love
The importance of mentorship
Boldness and confidence in ministry
Ministering the prophetic anointing in preaching
Ministering prophetically to unbelievers
Ministering healing to past hurts and bad experiences
HOW TO FUNCTION AS A PROPHET AT ANY TIME OR PLACE and
you will know how to use your ministry in public meetings, as well as
in personal ministry to individuals.
The Prophetic Child
How to identify the prophetic call in children
How to mentor your child in the prophetic
The importance of getting out of the way
The family generation blessing and call
Characteristics of a prophetic child
The steps necessary to prepare a prophetic child
What you can do to speed up the process
Letting go when you have done your part
Trusting the Lord to complete the work
HOW TO IDENTIFY A PROPHETIC CALLING YOUR CHILD and
you will know how to help your child to go through the painful
preparation and training and rise up quickly into their ministry.
The Prophetic Ministry In Marriage
The importance of a good marriage in ministry
How to handle a negative spouse
Do's and Don'ts for spouses
The importance of husband and wife teams
Developing a good relationship with your spouse
Using the right words to build up
Getting rid of the walls
Fulfilling your role fully
Encouraging and developing gifts
Learning to flow together at all levels
HOW IMPORTANT YOUR MARRIAGE IS TO YOUR FUTURE
SUCCESS IN MINISTRY and you will know how to respond correctly
to a disinterested or negative spouse who does not fully share your
passion for the prophetic ministry.
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OFFICE
GET STARTED!
Welcome! This is it... the step from acting as
a prophet to BECOMING the Prophet God has called you to be.
Consisting of 5 books, this Prophetic Course provides you with
foundational teachings, tried in the fire and tested through
experience, and are the standard for apostolic training in the
Church universally.
Scroll down this page and
read a short description of each
book.
When you are ready to
get started on the course, click
the title of the book you want
to read! (There is also a link to
each book at the top of the
page).
The Prophetic
Foundation
The Prophetic
Operations
Can you identify ministries in others? Are
you setting the people of God in their
place in the church? This book will give you
the ability to identify those who are called
to be prophets and to give them the
answers they need to pursue their calling.
This is where you begin getting
into the good stuff! Where was all the
teaching when you wanted to learn
how to hear the voice of God or how
to praise prophetically? This set not
only explodes you into a new
dimension in the spirit, but it will
change you, shape you and conform
you to becoming a “God ordained,
power packed prophet of God!”
Being called a prophet is just not enough!
It is time that you lived, breathed and
BECAME a prophet! This set is the first big
step towards that direction.
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The Prophetic
Training
The Prophetic
Warfare
WARNING! The anointing in the following
materials is hazardous to your flesh! The
many prophetic warriors who have waded
through these waters of prophetic
preparation and training have all sung the
same song concerning these messages and
it goes like this...“You were not kidding
about that warning!”
This is no time to play games. The church
has been crippled with many who have
entered into spiritual warfare unarmed.
Now is your opportunity to be part of a
new breed of prophets, who are armed
with the Word, empowered by the Holy
Spirit and lethal in their attacks against
the Kingdom of Darkness! If you have the
zeal... we have the battle plan. So what
are you waiting for?
So if you are quite comfortable to stay
were you are, then just pass over this book
and forget it exists. But if you are one of
those prophets who are willing to pay any
price for the calling on their lives, then
this book will begin by chiseling upon your
sinful flesh to expose it. It will bring you to
the cross for death, to the grave in
humility and then on to resurrection, in all
the glory of Jesus Christ.
INTRODUCING THE LECTURERS:
Les D. Crause
Getting down to the ‘nitty gritty’
of prophetic office, this book hits you
were you live. Have you ever wanted
the answers to those sticky questions
like, “What authority do I have in a
local church as a prophet?” OR “What
do I do if my spouse does not share
my zeal for ministry?”
Taking you now fully into prophetic
office and how to operate in that
office, this book sets the seal on all of
GMRN's other prophetic materials.
Prepare to be challenged. Prepare to
be shattered. Prepare to enter…
prophetic office!
Apostle & Founder
Global Ministry
Resource Network
Colette Toach
Apostle & Founder
GMR Training
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