Prophets in Training School

HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS
When we think of human relationships, there are different types of them such as friendship, relative, intimacy, workmate ship, church mate and so on. In all these relationships we ought to realize that LOVE even in it's purest form, does not always gurantee us a long life PARTNERSHIP.
This highlights the complexity of human relationships, because of each one's commitment to their personal growth and happiness.
Therefore we ought to relay on Christ wisdom and grace to make it to through the end

Prophecy never came by the will of men, but as holy men were carried by the Spirit they spoke the message that came from God. It's all about God's will. Never be stressed about what to say

"THUS SAYS THE LORD"
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"CAN I PROPHESY"

The difference between the old prophets (both from Old and New Testament) and the modern prophets is that the old prophets delivered the prophetic message by stating "Thus says the Lord" or "Thus says the Spirit of the Lord". Thus, they glorified God Almighty, drawing people's attention to God and His message. They acknowledged God's grace in enabling them to prophesy.

However, the modern flamboyant and swaggy prophets deliver God's message by stating "CAN I PROPHESY?". Thus, glorifying themselves instead of God, drawing people's attention to themselves instead to God. Acknowledging that the ability is done by themselves instead of divine enablement.

And the problem is that this trend is going viral in modern prophetic ministry; upcoming prophets are emulating the acts without any scripture cross examination. Thus, we have a proud generation of prophets who increase themselves instead of their master- the Lord Jesus.

May Christ usher us into grace of Prophet John the Baptist.

John 3:30, "He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less." (NLT)

John 3:30, "He must increase, in and I must decrease" (NKJV)

UNDERSTANDING THE PURPOSE OF PROPHETIC GIFT (Pt 1)
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WHERE THERE IS NO PURPOSE, ABUSE IS INEVITABLE

~ When you don't understand the purpose of a KNIFE, you might use it to STAB someone, If you don't understand the purpose of a SPOON you might use it for digging, if you don't understand the purpose of Books, you might use them as Toilet paper.

~When there is no understanding of purpose of a given tool, abuse is unavoidable.

~Likewise, if you don't understand the purpose of the PROPHETIC GIFT, abuse is inevitable.

~You might abuse PROPHECY, POWER, and PEOPLE using the very precious prophetic gift in you.

-Prophetic gift is a double edged knife; on one side it can be used in the right way as the Holy Ghost and holy scriptures supports; and on the other side, it can also be used in a wrong way according to the pattern of man's evil desires, man's invented ways and Satan's ways.

~The Lord Jesus Christ through the Holy Ghost gives the gift of prophecy; but, how you use this great and attractive gift in the body of Christ entirely depends on your decision, understanding and methods of ministering it to people and the world.

~Dear minister, pursue the learning and understanding of the scripture-based purpose and use of the prophetic gift. Avoid unnecessary imitations but let your style and method of ministering prophecy be inspired by the Holy Ghost.
(Look Forward for part 2)
"The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you".
Amen

OUR HOPE IN COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Several theories, prophecies and myths have emerged on the COVID-19 and its vaccines.

As a Christ-like believer, in a world where our minds are bombarded with several rockets of information that you fail which one to be believe; there is only one source of information we are sure of to believe in, put our trust and stand firm despite everything. That is, the WORD OF CHRIST the Bible. In His word we have hope, faith and love.

Whatever will come with the COVID-19, it is written "...the righteous shall live by faith" (Room 1:17).

If the COVID-19 was meant to anahilate us, It is written "... for in him we live, and move, and have our being" (Acts 17:28)

Whether the COVID-19 vaccine is okay, is demonic, chemically wrong or biologically wrong;
It is written "A thousand shall fall at thy side, And ten thousand at thy right hand; But it shall not come nigh the" (PS 91:7)

It is written "17. And these signs shall accompany them that believe: in my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;

18 they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." (Mark 16)

We have such unimaginable extraordinary protection through FAITH in Christ.

Therefore, as Christ believers we should not live by FEAR perpetuated by innumerous information out there but we should live by FAITH rooted in CHRIST WORD.

The righteous (those who believe) shall live by FAITH not by FEAR

The grace of the Lord be with you.

ROLE OF CONSCIENCE IN PROPHETS (part 3)

We have previously mentioned that Conscience is the product of the information that one has believed. And that your Conscience can be wrong depending on the type of education or information that has shaped your Conscience.
There are several sources that can shape your Conscience including: beliefs from culture, information from Science, beliefs from other religions and the Word of Christ Jesus. Let’s study the following portion of scripture:
Matt 15:2-3 “Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”
3. He answered and said to them, “Why do you also transgress the commandments of God because of your tradition? “
In this portion of the scripture, the Pharisees had a conscience shaped by culture and they considered it a sin when they saw the disciple of the Lord doing things contrary the culture.
Brethren, our conscience is the closest judge and witness of our deeds but cannot be the standard judgement. Christ Words and Christ Words alone must be the standard of our conscience.
Christ Words maketh our conscience pure. That’s what the Bible calls a “pure conscience” (2Tim 1:3, 1 Tim 3:9).
A pure Conscience is one that is cleansed by Christ (Heb 9:14, Heb 10:22); and the one which is educated by Christ words. Hence, when one acts in concert with their pure conscience taught by Christ word, they have the "answer of a good conscience toward God."


∆ Acts 24: 16; "have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men".
~A conscience that is void of offence towards God is that which follows the judgement of God's words. It always attempts to live in agreement with God’s words, and will not compromise it because of human standards set by culture or science.
~A conscience that’s void of offence towards men is that which also puts in consideration the welfare of others for the sake of peace and harmony.
Sometimes your Conscience may not share the same faith as others. Others are trained not to eat while walking on roads, and their conscience has been shaped in that way. But you may believe differently because doing such does not transgress any Word of God.
But the word says we should not let our strong conscience, truth-knowledge ams liberty be a stumbling block to those who have weak conscience (Rom14:20-23). We need to compromise certain liberty of our conscience in order not hurt those who have weak conscience (1 Cor 8:1-12). When those with weak conscience become offended because of the liberty of our conscience, they we offend God and our conscience is guilty of offence.
So let us commend our conscience to the conscience of others (1 Cor 10:25-29)
The next part will be on Pure Conscience and the Prophet
The Grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. Amen

ROLE OF CONSCIENCE IN PROPHETS (Part 2)


~Conscience is an inborn trait. A child is born with amoral conscience, that is, not knowing what is right nor wrong.

~Conscience starts growing right from childhood when guardians begin to teach the child the DOs and DONTs of life.

~Conscience is shaped by the type of education or information one receives about morality. It is a product of religious, cultural and educational information and beliefs that one is exposes to and believes. For example, If you are nurtured in an environment where stealing, lying or formication is normal, your Conscience will function according to that information.

~Conscience is can be pure or impure depending with the information or education that shaped or influenced you. The fact that you follow your Conscience (heart) does not mean you are always right. Conscience can be wrong depending with the subjective belief that your Conscience is influenced with. For instance, Saul persecuted the church with a good conscience and yet he was wrong (Acts 23:1). In ancient paganism, pagan parents offered their children as sacrifice to the gods. And they did this with a clear conscience but this is abominable before Christ.

~Conscience is the first voice you have in moral judgement situation. You say follow what your heart say, and yet want you are seeking is your conscience. If your CONSCIENCE is filled with GOD’S WORD, your conscience becomes the WEIGHTY RESOURCE in choosing and doing what it is right even when you do not hear from the Holy Spirit. (2 Tim 1:3) To such kind of conscience, we say be sensitive to it.

~Conscience to certain extent of sin stops giving moral judgement in you. It stops condemning you. It stops making you feeling guilty. In other words, when you are steeped in sin, you reach certain extent where your conscience no longer judges you. Everything you do is right to you.
I Tim. 4: 2 “….having their conscience seared with a hot iron."
A hot iron is used to sear herds of cattle, goat or sheep to make marks or seals for identification. The place where the animal has been seared with a hot iron becomes less sensitive to touch and nothing grows in that place because the living cells have been killed by the heat.
Likewise, a seared conscience is a one that no longer responds to sound judgement. It no longer judges wrong from right. It is steeped and defiled in wrongdoing. And you may feel, “I’m okay, cause I’m not feeling any guilt”.

The next part of the series will be on Conscience and God’s word
The Grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. Amen

THE ROLE OF CONSCIENCE IN PROPHETS (pt 1)


Conscience is one of the teaching that is not plainly explained in Christian sphere. The word appears in the New Testament for over 28 times as used by Apostles in their epistles. In this series, we will explore the topic of conscience in different parts. It is important to know what conscience is notjust because it appears in the Bible but because it is part of you as a prophet and any other person. So what's Conscience?

~ Conscience is a part of your soul responsible for moral consciousness, that is, the knowledge/ awareness of right and wrong. It s part of your soul since the soul is where consciousness or awareness of things resides.
~ Conscience is the sense of right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action.
~ Conscience is the sense, thought process and conscious part that enables you to distinguish right and wrong, condemning wrong and commending you to do the right thing.
~ Conscience is the sense of guiltiness when one deviates from God’s will, standard of rights or what is considered human or humanity.
~ Conscience is the inner witness of your righteousness and also your wrongdoing.

∆ John 8:9 ““And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst”.

In this scripture portion, when the Lord Jesus Christ told the people to stone the woman if any of them had not seen before; all were convicted by their own Conscience that they too were sinners. In other words, their Conscience bore witness of their sins; made them feel guilt because of their sins; made them know that what they intended to do was wrong; and guided them towards the right thing which is walking away without stoning the woman. That is what conscience Conscience can do.

ORIGIN OF CONSCIENCE

So now that we know what conscience is, where did it come from? And how did it start in a person?

To understand the origin of Conscience, we need to go back in time of creation where many things about man began. In Genesis 2:8-9, God planted a tree of the knowledge of good and evil. In other words, this tree had divine power to activate the knowledge of good and wrong or simply put to impart or activate Conscience.
God created a man and woman who were better than all physical creation but were incomplete or imperfect because they lacked Conscience- the knowledge or awareness of good and evil. God and all angels have Conscience because they knew what was good and evil. But God withheld this nature from man and he did not want man to have it. So he gave him the command not to eat of the fruits of that tree.

Does it mean that man was created without Conscience? We believe and can safely say that man was created with a dormant or potential or blind conscience that could not distinguish, see or know what was right and wrong.

However, in Genesis 3:7-9; we are told that both the woman and man ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and their eyes where opened and realized that they were naked. One can ask, was Adam and Eve blind? Of course not, but they were blind in their Conscience. So the divine power of possessed by the tree of knowledge of good and evil activated the Conscience and opened its eyes in Adam’s conscience. And the first sign was to realize that they were naked, that is, they felt ashamed of their nakedness. They realized it was wrong to be naked. That’s part of sense of guiltiness. And this was the beginning of the active operation of Conscience in man.

The next part will be on Nature of Conscience
The grace of Lord Jesus Christ be with u

Prophetic ministration is generally the transmission/communication of message from the spiritual source (God/spiritual realm) to the human receivers. Like other forms of communication, errors may occur along the communication process of prophetic message which may result in distortion of the original intended message or completely result into a false massage.

Errors are simply actions or words that are incorrect and inaccurate. In the prophetic ministration, ERRORS occur along the of the prophetic communication process. These three stages include:

1. PROPHETIC REVELATION stage

This is the stage where the prophet receives the message prophetically or spiritually (descernment, audible, dreams, vision, tongues, trance etc.) from a spiritual source.
The source can be from God (Holy Spirit), Unclean Spirits and and the person himself (prophet's spirit).
~Errors here happen when the source transmitting the message to the prophet is questionable.
For instance, unclean spirits such as familiar spirits (spirits of the dead) and spirits of divination can communicate with a person in similar way like the way the Holy Spirit can do? Communication messages from such sources is an error in the genuine prophetic ministry?
~Some messages claimed to be prophetic are originated from within the person himself. This can be from the mind, too much desire for the prophetic, or other emotions such as fear or infatuation. However, there are also true spiritual messages that are transmitted by the human spirit enabled by the prophetic grace.

SO each time there is prophetic message, the question to ask or descern is: What's the source of the message?

2. PROPHETIC INTERPRETATION stage

This is the stage where the prophet attempts to gain meaning or understanding of the message revealed to him.
Sometimes, the prophetic message can come from a genuine source (Holy Spirit) but a lot of problems/ errors occur at this stage because it entirely depends on the capacity of the prophet such as level of knowledge, understanding and maturity in the prophetic.
The true ministration of the prophetic message here depends on:
~The medium through which the prophetic message is revealed (audible, vision, dream, discernment, tongues, trance etc.). QUE: Does the prophet understand such medium?
~The completeness of the prophetic message. QUE: Is the prophetic message revealed completely or partially?
~The clarity or clearness or the prophetic message. QUE: Is the prophetic message clear or not?
~The nature of symbolism in the prophetic message. QUE: Is the prophetic message symbolic in nature or is plainly direct?
~The tense of time of the prophetic message. QUE: is the message referring to the past, present or future time?
~The people/ place the prophetic message is point to. QUE: To whom is the message to be delivered to?
~And mostly important is the prophet familiar or knowledgeable enough to understand the message or symbols for correct interpretation.
NOTE: Any errors among the aspects mentioned above will result in innacurate or false prophetic message.

3. PROPHETIC DELIVERY stage

This is a stage where the prophet now communicates the prophetic message to the target individuals, church or nation.

Important points where errors may occur here; include the following:
~The method and style used to minister the prophetic message.
The method or style used to minister the prophetic message affects the authenticity of the prophetic. There are methods that are effective and ineffective. The prophet needs to develop a effective styleor method to communicate the prophetic.
~This also includes the medium used to communicate the prophetic message: is it another person, Facebook, a book, newspaper, television or during live church service?
~The language and vocabulary used to communicate the prophetic message.
The language of a prophet depends on the vocabulary of the prophet to describe and explain the prophetic message. (Education is important)
The language and words used can underrate and lessen the authenticity of the prophetic message. The goal here is not to exaggerate the message but to accurately communicate it using the right words and relevant language so that target people can understand. It is pointless to use English to people who are vernacular in speaking or Using big disctionary words.
~The target people. A prophetic message has a target to which it is to be delivered. A prophetic message delivered to the wrong target is a false prophecy.

The Grace of the Lord Jesus be with You. Amen

(Part 1)
QUE: Imagine, 2000 years ago during the first century, if God had revealed to John the revelator all the today's cars, trains, jets, helicopters and aeroplanes. How would John have described such kind of strange vision using the language of his time?

Imagine, if God had already revealed to the Old Testament prophets about the first and second world wars, the nuclear weapons and today's technology. How could they have described the visions of the things that never existed in their time?

Of course, they would describe them or liken them to what they knew in their and , right?

QUE: Now imagine, if God was to prophetically show you an object or event 100 years from now, and that thing does not exist presently. How would you describe it?

You will fall short of words to precisely describe it, right? Instead you will look for words within your vocabulary to explain it. And obviously you will look for a known object which is similar to what you are seeing in the vision and relatively explain it.

Not everything a prophet sees spiritually or in future time is known to the prophet.
Some spiritual things and future events are beyond present description, language and vocabulary to precisely explain.

In other words, there may not be readily available words or nouns in the vocabulary of the prophet to describe them.

Vocabulary means the words or language a prophet knows and uses.

The description of a prophetic vision is limited by the level of vocabulary of the prophet. Its precise description is dependent on the amount of information, words, and names the prophets knows or has learnt.

God's Prophets in the Bible saw the happenings and technology of today's world long time ago but they described them according to the capacity of their vocabulary.
E.g. The today's train would probably be described as "A long big snake with eyes allover the sides of its body" because a train never existed during that time.
E.g Helicopters like birds or bees; Aeroplane like Grasshoppers; Tankers like Scorpions etc

Christ grace be with you

Prophecy is one of the most attractive, powerful, edifying and excellent spiritual gift and grace.

However, the mode of delivering or communicating this grace to others will make it more superior or limit its potential.

As a prophet, u may be gifted with so much prophetic grace that there is no mystery or secrets that remains hidden from you. However, if the method of communicating this gift to others is poor. It will surely affect the ministration of this wonderful grace.

On the other hand, some may be less gifted prophetically but yet if they have a good method of communicating there prophetic grace, the manifestation will be more edifying than those who are highly gifted.

Therefore, you need to adopt and develop an effective method of delivering and communicating prophecy to others.

Keep on training and improving on your mode of communicating prophecy to others.

Do not just improve on precision of prophetic sight, hearing or discernment, but also improve on the effective method of delivering and communicating prophecy to others.

Christ Grace be with you

It is the judgement of God's perfect will that makes one is be a great Prophet, not how pupolar, fame, or vocabulary one is. Prophets today are busy trying to develop and raise momentum of those things, moving up and down to this man, that popular man and so on, but only a few Prophets in our time spend alot of in observing the perfect WILL of God 7:21
A great Prophet is he who does or speak after a careful observation of the WILL of God. He is not driven by physical confirmations to satisfy his ego but by the spiritual confirmation to satisfy his judgment by observation. John 5:30
Therefore a genuine Prophet can be concluded as the one who speaks after what he has carefully observed from God, because what differentiates Prophets today is their ability in observing the perfect WILL of God. 8:38
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