I just was at a prophetic conference. It was good. A woman who I respect was the Prophet on the platform. She had an associate with her. She taught from the instructions to the Prophets training she has helped develop. Excellent stuff. I agreed with it all. Then they spoke over many people in the meeting. They were very precise.
Much of what I heard was word of Knowledge. Some was prophetic. Some was so exacting nearly down to the color of the car that they were going to buy. No, that never happened, but it's an example of the level of precision.
In a couple cases words were spoken of marriages to men or women who did not yet exist in the person's life, of job changes, business started, investments to make, books to write, greatness to be achieved, fame, fortune, fabulous futures.
The fact is, much of that kind of "Prophecy" is casting vision and hope. Not wrong to do, but not prophetic. Pep talk prophetic.
The prophetic should encourage and will usually confirm what is already going on in the person's life. OR, if correction is needed, will do so in love. Sometimes it should cause a person to grasp or believe for more. But, it should NOT be a blow by blow battle plan for the next ten years. The light unto our feet is only a lamp. This was a 10,000 watt spotlight to the future.
When a prophecy, particularly a personal prophecy, is too exact, too precise, it will cause heart sickness. (hope deferred makes the heart sick). It may be true in part, but this side of the veil, we all prophesy in part. At least that's what 1 Corinthians 13 says. Beyond that its presumptive.
I wish the desire for precision or exactnesson on the part of the person being prophesied to was not near divination. Christian OuiJa boards. I can't tell you the number of times I have been instructed to give a person a word of prophecy and then the person receiving it wants me to tell them more than I know, more information, clarity. I don't have more. That's the job of the Holy Spirit. He just want's to give you some instruction. Lamp to feet style. Anything I would say beyond what God says would be phony baloney. Love means saying only what God says. And doing so with a broken heart sometimes.
Sometimes prophetic exuberance overruns the headlights.
This was that I saw last weekend.
1 comment:
Good stuff.
The problem is not so much with precision, but with people wanting detail that God is not giving. A prophetic word is not a substitute for learning to hear the voice of the spirit and walking in obedience to it.
Expecting a prophet to take over the role of the Spirit and give a detailed blow by plan is very close to divination and astrology.
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