A lot of people nowadays are more
excited about prophecy than they are about God Himself. The moment they hear of
a man of God who gives apt and concrete prophecies, they run to those churches.
They have become prophecy “maniacs” jumping from one church to another in
search of prophetic words. They accept whatever word that comes from the mouth
of any preacher they come across. Take note that I am not against the gift of PROPHECY
(1 Thessalonians 5:19-20), no way! It’s a gift from the Holy Spirit which is
made manifest through us to exhort, comfort and give God’s mind about a
situation. Some preachers have misled, misguided etc many Christians because of
this gift of prophecy. It’s worse because they don’t try to make a difference
between a word of knowledge and a word of prophecy. Christians are always
seeking an easy way out and nobody wants to pray about that prophetic word that
makes you feel like dying, they accept even junk in the name of prophetic word(Leviticus
19:31). The Bible is clear about testing the spirits (1John 4:1) because there
is the spirit of divination that some ministers use to corrupt the lives of
fellow believers.
Beloved in the Lord, intimacy with God
is the birthing place of every spiritual gift. Create a life of fellowship with
the Father, Son and Holy Ghost; listen to the voice of God, glory in His
presence and these things you seek will be second nature to you. Seek to know
Jesus the Word who was in the beginning with God and which was God (John 1:1).
There’s more to knowing God than just the gifts, God in Himself is awesome,
marvelous, and gracious etc. At times you are running after words of prophecy
that weren’t inspired by the spirit of God and because it was some sort of
divination, you start believing God lied to you, it’s not in God’s nature to
lie and God does not speak to please, it’s not in God’s nature to tell you
things He’ll be unable to fulfill. No! That’s not the God I serve and certainly
not the God who sent Jesus to die for our sins. It’s so unfortunate that some ‘so
called’ ministers have introduced many Christians to seek God’s hand rather
than knowing Him and all these Christians believe and know about God is that He
does miracles. Yes, it’s great but these people don’t have a relationship with
God when they don’t have problems and they believe the minister who was used by
God has all the answers to their problems (Psalm 106:15) and not God. Some ‘so
called’ ministers use prophecies to extort money and property from Christians and
these ignorant Christians do it believing they are doing as unto God. At times
someone gives you a burden and heartache in the name of a prophecy and you
don’t discern or test the spirit behind it and you find yourself dying slowly
within believing that the judgment of God is upon you and your household and
all you have to do is stay with that same minister for deliverance.
I love you dear brethren and I pray God
reveals to us all areas where some prophecies have held us bound and set us free
because where the Spirit of God is there is absolute liberty (2 Corinthians
3:17). I have been a victim of such prophecies too but the Holy Spirit who is
the Spirit of truth has revealed to me how prophecies can ruin you because they
weren’t given from a spirit of God but of divination. It is the will of the
Father that you know Him and experience the beauty and power of hosting His
presence. God wants more intimacy with you because it gives birth to spiritual
gifts and fruits are which of His Spirit and not from your flesh. It is God’s
will that you prosper as your soul prospers (3 John 2)
“Beloved,
I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy
soul prospereth”. God can never withhold
any good thing from you and if God has freely given you everything in Christ it
is because He loves you very much (2 Peter 1:3).
The Spirit of God in us has given us
access to any realm that is humanly accessible if we seek Him in intimate
worship. See him in everything you do, rejoice in His presence and most
importantly teach your spirit man to always be aware of the presence of the
Holy Spirit. All these can only be done with help of the Holy Spirit. Pray for
the gift of discernment and God will give you tenfold and you won’t in any way
be deceived by prophecies.
Take
some time and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you that part of you that has
been held bound by a prophecy and which is obscuring access to God.
Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you those areas
where other believers have been deceive and please pray for those in that
prophetic bondage as well.
Declare
God’s authority over your life, your mind, your spirit, soul, body, ministry,
family, marriage; job etc. every area of your life. (1 John 2:20)
Be Blessed In Jesus Name!!!
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