How Personal Prophecy is Useful

Let us talk a little bit about personal prophecy. One of the best ways to explain what personal prophecy is, is that it’s a simple or more complex message from the Spirit of God, from the heart of God, to you. So God wants to speak to His people. God desires to speak heart to heart with you and communicate His thoughts and His feelings and His directions with you.

So, one of the primary things that a person should concentrate on in their life as a Christian is to develop the ability to hear God speak or to hear Jesus speak to them heart to heart. Jesus taught a parable, the parable of the Good Shepherd and in that parable He said that the sheep hear His voice and He calls them by name and they listen to Him. And He goes on to say that the sheep won’t listen to the voice of a stranger. And it’s very interesting but there’s a large portion, more than half of the church have not got the ability to actually hear Jesus speak to their spirit.

It’s very important that we learn to hear the voice of Jesus that we learn to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit in our Christian lives. It’s more important that we develop the ability to hear from Jesus then it is for us to receive personal prophecies. So, I want to underline this subject and say it’s very important that you develop the ability to hear from God personally one on one. And so, when personal prophecies come along in your life, when you start to hear personal prophecies spoken over your life, many of the things that are spoken will be confirmations of what God has already directed you or shared with you about your life and about your future.

So, how is personal prophecy useful? Personal prophecy can be useful for you to get a very true representation of what your identity in Christ really is. God is very good at telling a person positive, character attributes that are good about a person. God is very good at revealing to a person that for instance that they’re very humble or they’re very teachable or they’ve got a child-like faith. Or any number of things. So, if for instance you’ve been a person who, went into things intellectually with your mind and you are passionate and you are driven and you are somewhat insecure and so therefore you came across in a boastful sort of way, in a prideful sort of way. Then it’s very encouraging when you have done a lot of work in your life and God has done a lot of work in your life, that prophecies start to come true with God saying that you’re humble, that you’re very humble and He’s pleased with your humility.

When people have an argument on Facebook , I personally  try to bow out of them these days but it seems that when you disagree with a Christian on Facebook or YouTube, or in some public forum, if you present an argument that may be hard for them to argue often I’ve been called prideful by these people that are arguing with me. When Jesus started to tell many times that I’m humble it helped me a lot . I started and managed a prophetic website that did email prophecies for people and I built a team of about six people and there was always people requesting for me to pray for them to have the gift of prophecy. So I prayed for them and I asked them to prophesy over me as a test case that they’ve got the gift of prophecy and I’d give them feedback. Well, two thirds of the prophecies I received from the people new to the gift of prophecy said that God loved me and Jesus loved me and he was proud of me .About fifty people out of the three hundred people  said that I was humble. It’s re-assuring to you when you’re living a life, a Christian life and you’re developing day by day in the Christian walk to be reminded by God about something that you’ve done work on.

So for God to say to me that I was humble is very encouraging, edifying, and it challenges me to become more and more humble as the days go on. So, when I exercise my faith, I often interact with angels and saints from Heaven and God and Jesus in visions. And many people have prophesied over my life that I’ve got child-like faith. And it’s true. I’m like a child. I’ve just got this innocence that just believes that God is love and God loves me and God wants to show me things and for me to experience His Kingdom in a greater measure than most other people. So when someone prophesies and says that you’ve got child-like faith, it’s very encouraging because Jesus actually said unless you enter the kingdom such as a child, you’ll by no means enter the Kingdom. So, it’s very encouraging to know that my faith is like that of a child and I’m in that perfect sweet spot which will allow greater revelation and a greater experience of the Christian faith because of my stance, my faith stance that I have. So, one important thing that most Christians need is a sense of their identity in Christ, who they really are. Who does God say you are? What does God say about you? What does God like about you?

What are the qualities that God sees are beneficial and beautiful in your life? Now, I know that God could speak to me for a hundred hours straight. I know I asked some people in a prophetic exercise I did on a prophetic group that I ran called Prophetic Training Group. I asked people to list two qualities that they see in a certain person and get those qualities from God as a prophetic word and I asked someone for two qualities and they said, just two?  She said, “God could speak for hours about the things he likes about you Matthew,” and it’s true. God could really speak for hours about the things that He likes about you, dear reader. He loves so many things.

God isn’t one that points fingers at the things you’re not good at. He just elevates and encourages you in the gifts that you have and encourages you to move into certain things that you find a challenge. So prophecy, through words of knowledge, talking about character traits in a person’s life can be very encouraging for a person,   and very uplifting for a person to hear and for them to understand these things about themselves. There may be things that the person hasn’t really seen about themselves. There may be things that are revelations to the person. A person may not think that they’re too patient or a person may not think that they’re called to be a writer but when five people in a row in the course of a year have said that the person is called to be writer and they’re meant to write books, the person starts to get the information and the message that God is calling them to write. So God can see things in us that we can’t ourselves.

We’re so judgemental about ourselves. We’re so bound up with guilt and condemnation and insecurities that we have in our lives that we can’t see how good we really are and God is able to see past the clutter. He’s able to see past the mess. He’s about to look past the sin that you’re in, and He can look right down into who you are and speak out the gold that’s in you. He can draw out the gold and the beautiful things about who you are and what makes you such a wonderful person. And so prophecy is able to help a person identify who they are in Christ. It helps people to come to grips with the beautiful person that they are.

Prophecy can also encourage a person to grow in intimacy with Jesus intimacy and with the Father, and that is very important for the Christian faith. A lot of the gifts of the spirit and the a lot of the power in the anointing in the Holy Spirit come from a developed sense of intimacy with Jesus and intimacy with the Father. It’s out of relationship that we develop strength and we develop the ability to minister to other people and so through personal prophecy, a person can grow in intimacy with Jesus.

When people are hearing time and time again that Jesus loves us and Jesus is proud of us and the the things that Jesus loves it’s only natural for us to respond in intimacy. It’s only natural as God draws close to us through personal prophecy. It’s only natural for us to feel better and draw closer to God because of the exchange, because of the information flowing from God’s heart to us. It encourages us to draw closer to him and have a more intimate relationship with him. So prophecy is useful in developing our sense of our identity in Christ. Prophecy is also useful when it comes to us developing intimacy with Jesus Christ.

Prophecy is useful also in identifying gifts in the people, talents in the people, and the callings that people have in their life. So a prophet or someone who is prophetic can call out gifts that are in a person so often I see in people when I prophesy that they’re called to write, that they’re called to write a book. Often you’ll see things in people that are already in you. So, you’ll often see words of knowledge in people that are similar traits that you have so you can call them out in people because it resonates intuitively through the gift of prophecy with your spirit that these people in that aspect are the same as you. And so I often prophesied over people that they’re called to write and now I’ve, now I’ve written a book called Writing and Self-Publishing Christian Non-Fiction and that’s available on Amazon now. I’ve written a book on how to write a book and how to go about writing a book because there are so many people that I prophesy over that have got a gift and God wants to use them to write. So that’s just one instance. Writing is something that fulfils your life and something that I’m called to do.

I’ve seen a vision in Heaven of fifty books in a bookcase and the Lord Jesus told me that those fifty books were fifty books that I’d written in my life. I tried to sneak in and have a look at the titles of the books because I would have known what to write if I had have known the titles of the books but I couldn’t see the titles. So that was pretty funny that I tried. So, writing is a really fulfilling thing that I do. It’s the main focus of my life and I get a lot of personal satisfaction out of writing and having people read what I write and write reviews and write to me and ask me questions and thank me for writing books. So it’s a major part of who I am and so having people call that out in me that I’ve got more books to write and God is really pleased with my writing is encouraging to me . One person said, Don’t worry about the negative reviews you get. God has called you to write certain things and He was speaking forth your words through you when you wrote the books that you did and so don’t be afraid of what people say.”

 For him to communicate that to me took a lot of pressure off me and took a lot of worries and anxieties away from me because I was getting a few negative reviews on one of my books.

So prophecy can identify a person’s calling or a person’s gifting. I’m also called to be a prophet and I’m called to be a prophetic evangelist, a teaching prophet, a prophet that equips people. And so having people prophesy that I’m called to equip people, having people prophesy that I’m called to evangelise people, having people prophesy that I’m called to write on the three aspects of the prophetic that I’m gifted in, and this really encourages me and edifies me and confirms with me that my life is on the right track and I really am doing what God has called me to do.

So prophecy can call out the gift in a person, it can call out the calling in a person, and this can be further confirmed as people move into the gifts and start to operate in the gifts. As they start to find that they truly are gifted in the way they are told in prophecy, they find a reason to live and a purpose for living in operating in the gifting and the calling that has been prophesied over them. If you start to move out in the gifting that has been prophesied, you’ll find that God has given you the grace or will give you the grace to move in that gifting, to move and operate in that gifting. You’ll find it comes easier to you than it comes to other people and God will specially grace you the ability to do a certain thing.

So prophecy can call out the gifting in a person, it can call out the callings in a person; a person can be told what ministry office that they’re called to be in and that can be prophesied. The person can also know that in their spirit that that’s what they’re called to do but having people come alongside them and prophesy that over their life is very useful to a person and it also helps them get over the trepidation and the fear and the panic that sets into a person when they’re called to do something. After they hear their calling prophesied they are able to get the courage to go ahead and leave their place of work or change their life in a drastic way to fulfil the calling that’s on their life.

So many people need that encouragement to step out and learn or start to practice the gifting or the calling and prophecy is very useful to do that in a person’s life. So, what else is prophecy useful for?

Prophecy is useful to give a person direction. A person can be given direction like for instance I was given direction to operate in prophecy and offer prophecy through a prophetic website. So asked for a donation for prophecy and a prophecy was given to me that I have a way of earning an income that would lead me to be able to finance things I wanted to do in the Kingdom. So I moved out and did that has paid for a few books to be edited and self-published so far in a couple of months and I have a backlog of books that have been written but I didn’t have the money to have them edited or have them published.

This new website has opened up an income stream that allows me to publish my books and this has been very helpful. All of that happening and all the money coming in from that has been because of a prophecy that gave me direction to step out in a business way to earn an income for myself. Before that prophecy I had never considered going into business for myself and doing something. I was on a disability pension. And I was quite happy with the income although I wished there was somewhere I could earn more money but I just didn’t want to go and wash dishes like I used to because I’m sick of washing dishes. So I hoped that I could come across a way of earning money that was enjoyable for me to publish more books.

So it’s enjoyable for me to prophesy. It was very helpful for the people that get a prophecy over their life and people are very encouraged by it. And so it’s become a good source of income. I’ve had other directions by Jeremy Lopez through his prophetic words on my life and I pay attention to the prophetic words and I pay attention to the word of wisdom, what he directs me to do through the utterance of the Lord. And so should you. So should you listen to the words of wisdom and words of direction that the Lord gives through a prophetic utterance from someone.  

So there are many good things that prophecy can do. It can build you up, encourage you, edify you, exhort you; it can inspire you, it can do all these things.

There are many things that could be listed in a book, useful things that prophecy can do but there I’ve mentioned a few key elements that prophecy is useful for other people. Prophecy also is a really good thing to do. Delivering personal prophecies to people really gives you over time a real sense of who God is gives you a real good understanding of the type of person, the type of entity that God really is.

Prophecy gives you a good understanding of the type of person that Jesus is and through delivering prophetic words, you get a sense of His love and you get a sense of His mercy and the compassion. Soon enough you start to develop the mind of Christ and you start to think like Christ. You start to get revelations from Jesus and from the Holy Spirit. You start to get the heart of God in your heart. You start to feel compassionate and loved for people just as God loves people and has compassion for people. The more you move in prophetic circles, the more you move in your gifting in the prophetic, the more you’ll start to take on the heart and the mind of Christ. And grow in your relationship with Christ in intimacy and you’ll have a passion for God the more that you move in the prophetic.

The prophetic is very useful to the people who are receiving it and its very edifying and encouraging for the person giving the prophecies. It’s always encouraging to give a prophecy to a person by email, by video, on Facebook.  It is also good to receive someone’s feedback, a couple of paragraphs of them writing feedback on the prophecy and how it blessed them and how specific points were so dead on and so exact and so right. You find out how your personal prophecy encouraged them and it’s very interesting and encouraging to get such feedback from people. It’s useful in the ways that I’ve shared and it’s useful in other ways that I haven’t shared yet. I encourage you to buy books on the prophetic and learn all you can on the prophetic because you’ll have many years between when you’re called to be a prophet and when you’re actually walking in the office. God bless.

For a personal prophecy off Matthew Robert Payne see http://personal-prophecy-today.com

How Do I Know I am Called to be a Prophet ?

 

That’s a very interesting question and I’m glad you asked. It’s not always easy to tell that you’re called to be a prophet. The process of understanding and coming to grips with the fact you’re called to be a prophet can be a long and arduous process. Or it can be short. You can have someone speak to you prophetically one time and say that you’re called to be a prophet, but on reflection and understanding that I’ve got from other people who were called to be prophets I am going to share.

Not just one person is enough to convince a person that they’re called to be a prophet. Not just one person prophesying over your life and saying you’re called to be a prophet will often be enough to convince you that you’re called to be a prophet. God speaks to a prophet when you’re growing up, you’ll learn to hear from Jesus. You’ll learn to hear from God. You’ll learn to hear from the Holy Spirit and hopefully you’ll develop a relationship with the three people of the trinity, God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.

In my life, I had an angry father which caused me to have some trepidation when it came to God.  I had a fear of God and I felt that God was an angry God just much like my father and I had trepidation and fear in approaching Him because I believed He was like my father. I had a friend who said to me at one stage that God loved me and he’s not like my father, he’s not angry, and you can approach Him and he’ll love you and embrace you. As my fiend aid that to m he was crying and I started to cry also because the message was very touching to me. So some people have grown up with a not so good relationship with their father. This is all known by Satan and Satan allows these things to happen or causes these things to happen to cause a rift between a person and their God. Satan certainly knew that I was called to be a prophet and he made sure that my relationship with my father wasn’t a good one. And so it caused me some difficulty drawing close to God. I initially got close to the father through being close to his son Jesus. Jesus was no threat to me. Jesus was a friend of mine and proved himself to be a loyal and loving friend of mine and over time with a little healing in my heart I became so close to Jesus that he personally walked me into the throne room and introduced me to his Father and over time my relationship with the Father has increased.

As a person who is called to prophesy which most prophets are, it’s very interesting life. Often when I prophesy Jesus speaking through me, but many times its also God the Father speaking through me, to a person, or to a church or to a country. When we learn to speak on behalf of God, we learn to understand His ways and understand His love and understand His character and the more we understand the character of God and the grace of God, the more we can truly represent Him in a wonderful way.

So, first of all, how would you know that you’re called to be a prophet? Many times a person who sees things wrong with the church, a person who sees things wrong with the world and sees injustice in the world and sees the church falling short of the calling has the calling of a prophet. Jesus told us to go out into all the world and make disciples and baptise them and teach them everything that He commanded his disciples to do and sometimes when you see that great commission and you see how the church is operating, sometimes when you’re called to be a prophet, you can see a disconnect. You can see where Jesus’ commandment and Jesus’ commission to His believers is falling short in the church.

 

You may open your Bible and read certain passages in your Bible and compare the church that you attend to, what it said Biblically in the Bible and you may find a disconnect, you may find that your church that you’re attending isn’t measuring up to the standards of the Bible. You may find that your church may seem to be off track and not align to the scriptures and not align to what it says in the Bible. So, the calling of a prophet is almost like stirring in your heart, in your inner-being, that’s saying that things aren’t right and someone’s got to speak and someone’s got to put these things right.

So I find personally that I get a personal burden for the church. I get a personal discomfort and feeling in my spirit that things aren’t right and things have to be spoken and things have to be changed.  It’s that burden that propels me to spend the time to make videos and publish them on YouTube. It’s that burden allows me to start Facebook groups and equip people. And it’s that burden that allows me to take the time to write books and publish books that will change the hearts of people.

I had a watershed moment; I had a moment that really changed my life in the last few months when I was talking to Jesus about my reputation and not being known very well in the world. I personally have a message that I’d like to share with the world and yet haven’t got an audience that allows me to share that message on. I haven’t got a world audience and I’ve got a message that I’d like to share with the world and Jesus said to me that He also has a message that He’d like to share with the world and He also is limited in being able to share that message with the world that He wants to share with the world. He says that He has to pick selected prophets and selected teachers and preachers to share His message but in order for Him to give the same message to the whole world, He’d have to pick hundreds of people and they’d have to give the exact same message to the people in their languages for him to have one fluent message going out to the whole world.  So when we think about it, when I thought about it, I found that Jesus also finds himself in a position where He wants to speak to the world and yet He’s limited to the people on the ground, He’s limited to the people that love him and listen to Him and will carry His message to the people. So as a prophet, you will have a burden on your heart for the people. You’ll have something on your heart that you’ve got to share.

Jeremiah summed it up and said that he had a fire shut within his bones and he was weary from holding it in. He had a burden on his heart that was inflamed like a fire and it wearied him to keep the message in.  So what will happen is that God will place a burden on your heart and it will grow and grow and grow and start to catch fire in your heart until you actually form the words and deliver the message. Only when you share the message the burden will be released from you for a season anyway.  Some people who are intercessors will understand that God will place a burden on their heart and they’ll get a burden to pray for a person, an individual, or a country, or a church. They’ll get their burden on their heart to pray for this individual or body of believers and when they pray, they’ll continue praying until the burden actually lifts and they’ll feel that the message has been communicated properly to the Lord. When and the Lord has heard their prayer the burden will lift off them. When they feel the heaviness of heart, the burden lift off them they will know that they no longer need to have to pray. Well when you’re called to be a prophet, you’ll get a burden on your heart to share with certain people and you’ll get a message that is just burning within you to share.

 I had a prophecy that I was given about a month ago saying that the burden that the Lord has placed on my heart will never lift off me.  And I will never be relieved of the burden and it will continue to press me in and press me closer and closer to the Lord Jesus and will encourage me to walk in an intimate relationship with Jesus. It was prophesied that I will cry Jesus’ tears and commune with God and Jesus in a fellowship of tears together as we care and love the world that I’ve been placed upon. So, you first may get the understanding that you have a calling to the church. You’ll have a message that you want to share with the church.

You might look at the five-fold ministry and you may see that you’re not necessarily called as a teacher.  You may look that you’re not necessarily called as a pastor. You may see that you haven’t got a gift in evangelism but you’ve got a calling to give the church a message and you may not be an apostle so you may work out that you’re called to be a prophet to give personal prophecies and share messages with the church that God wants the church to hear. Its one thing to have an understanding that you’re called to be a prophet and its one thing to have a message that you have a burden on your heart to share with the church. -- it’s quite another thing to have an opportunity or a platform to speak those words to your church or speak those words to the community or to the nation that you live in.

So, it comes in three parts. First part becomes the burden that you carry; the second part may be developing the message that you want to share, and the third part which is totally up to God is for Him to allow you to have that platform or the opportunity to speak that message. Many prophets or developing prophets or people that are in training and being trained to be a prophet over many years carry these burdens and it makes them sort of judgemental. It makes them cold-hearted. It makes them temperamental. It makes them intense. They can be very difficult sorts of people to get on to get on with. They can be very frustrated people.

It’s just like a person having to go up a long hill with a big load on his back, it’s not terribly exciting.  If you asked a person with a big load going up the hill if they’re enjoying themselves, they probably wouldn’t be enjoying themselves and they probably wouldn’t answer in such a cordial and beautiful way saying they’re having a lovely time. So being groomed and trained to become a prophet is a long and arduous process and it’s a process where things are stripped off you and your character is fashioned.  You’re trained to submit to God and to be humble and to be meek and to be subservient and to be obedient and to be many other character traits that the Lord will bring out and manifest in your life.

When you feel that you’re called to be a prophet, you only have to ask the Lord for confirmation and if you hang around prophetic groups or you hang around prophetic people, God will use a prophet or someone who’s gifted in the gift of prophecy to prophesy over your life and tell you that you’re called to be a prophet.  They’ll say God has got a calling on your life for you to be a prophet.

 I have a major warning here, there’s a big difference between being called to the office of prophet and actually being a prophet. There can be anywhere between a ten to twenty-five  year gap in between the time when you’re aware that you’re called to be a prophet and when you’re actually working in the office and sitting in the office of a prophet. Similar to a person who is let’s say, becoming a brain surgeon, someone who becomes a brain surgeon has to spend six years in medical school learning to be trained as a doctor and then they go through another extensive amount of training to become a brain surgeon and then they go through extensive training in a hospital to have the practical experience of a brain surgeon. So it’s many years between when they decide that they want to be a brain surgeon to the time when they’re actually left alone in a surgery and not monitored by a superior and they can do their first brain surgery.

And so if you want to learn all about that, you can watch the show called Grey’s Anatomy which I learned that information on. So, comparing the prophetic office, the prophet’s office to that of a brain surgeon, someone would have to spend at least twelve years in training before they’re in the actual practice, probably more like twenty years. I’m not sure if it’s twelve or twenty. But nonetheless it is many years between when they decide that they want to be a brain surgeon at school and when they’re actually operating. So the same is true for someone called to be a prophet. You may get the calling where people prophesy that you’re called to be a prophet, but it takes many years of training and humility and obedience and walking in the ways of the Lord and practice in prophecy until you’re situated and promoted into the office of being a prophet.

When you are a prophet, your words have more authority. You have more authority in the things that you say and the things that you do. There’s a certain favor that comes upon your life. You have a favor that comes into your life like Psalm 1:3 says everything that he does prospers. And you’ll have favor in your life. You’ll have authority in your life. You’ll have the ability to speak a prophetic word so a long prophetic word like a fifteen minute or twenty minute prophetic word to a person and you’ll have the ability to not only speak for twenty  minutes but have that prophecy confirmed many prophecies that a person has got beforehand. Your prophecy is like a summation of all the prophecies they’ve had in their life And when you’re in the office of prophets, you’ll have such a  clarity and strength and grace upon your prophetic words that you’ll have people stand up and listen.

There are many people who offer free prophetic words on the internet and on Facebook. There’s many groups that are training people how do prophetic words and there’s many people practicing the gift in the gift of prophecy and these are all good things and we all need these places. These people new to prophecy  prophesy over our life and it’s especially good that people are called to start these Facebook groups and internet sites that train people how to prophesy and yet with many of these groups, the people that prophesy in these groups don’t prophesy with a lot of depth and a lot of strength and a lot of authority in the prophetic word.  

I know especially that every couple of months I approach a person called Jeremy Lopez and he prophesies over my life and he does really accurate prophetic words that really guide me and impact me and make a huge difference in my life when it comes to making decisions and coping with the life that I have.

So I go to an experienced prophet, someone who’s in the office, a prophet who’s mature, whose words are resounding with authority and with accuracy. And this is what you’ll get from someone who’s in a prophetic office. Up until a person is in a prophetic office, their prophecies may be correct and may be true, it’s just they lack the authority and the depth and the clarity that someone who is in a prophetic office may have. So, first of all you may work out that you’re called to speak to the church. Secondly, you may get many confirmations through prophetic people that you’re called into the office of prophet. Thirdly, you have to go through the transition and the time and all the processes of developing a character to become a prophet.

Now I would envision that many people start the process of refining and start the process of being a champion and changed and their character tested to become a prophet and give up. I would be quite certain that many people called as a prophet of God actually walk away from God and walk into the world and go back into the lust of the world and fellowshipping with the things of the world rather than pursuing their Christian faith. The calling of a prophet and the maturing into the prophetic office is extreme hardship.

It’s extremely difficult and it’s a life and a calling that is very hard. I’m a person who walked in that calling and has been called into the office of prophet and walk through the training and I’m still getting trained even though I’m in the office now. I’m still getting trained and equipped and prepared for what God has got in front of me and what God wants me to do in the future. So I can testify that there’s many hardships, there’s many persecutions, there’s many afflictions, there’s many time where you actually suffer to become the person that God has called you to be. It’s difficult. It’s hard. It’s treacherous. It’s a narrow road that you actually walk on and Jesus said that wide is the way that leads to death and destruction and narrow is the path that leads to life and if you find it and I can tell you that I’d say about  fifty percent of the people that are called into the office of prophet might never make it simply because of the hardship and the years that go in to preparing a person to walk in the office.  So even all of those years that they walk, they may not get an opportunity to walk in the office and they may not get an opportunity to preach in pulpits. They may not get an opportunity to open their mouth and speak and let things out of their mouth that God has put on their heart for people. They may not get the opportunity to speak to a conference. They may not get an opportunity to have what they have spoken over a nation or a city to be read by any people. They may publish a prophetic word over a nation on their own blog and fifty people may read it but it’s not millions of people reading it. They have this message in their heart for many years, maybe more than even ten years in their heart and not have the opportunity to share the message and this will frustrate them and test them and try them and it’ll be used to annoy them.  They’ll be put through all sorts of tests and supremely a test of patience. God wants someone who doesn’t call down fire on the people He loves.

God wants people who are full of grace and love and mercy and compassion and are slow to anger. He wants people who will respond to criticism with turning the other cheek and forgiveness. He wants people that will move in love. He wants a person who can prophetically see an error in someone’s life and speak life to the person, not call out the error in front of other people or even to the person in private. God wants people to be able to correct errors by prophetically announcing, prophetically decreeing and declaring positive things over a person’s life so that they can walk in freedom from their sin or from their error. He wants someone to be mature enough to confront a church or to confront a country with grace and bring correction with humility and love to people and to the body of Christ, rather than with a spirit of anger and fear and judgement and retaliation for all the hurts that they’ve been through that the body of Christ just caused him. If you have been rejected, if you’ve been misunderstood, if you have been called weird you may be called to be a prophet. If all you can think about is Jesus, all you can talk about is Jesus, if the world holds no allure for you, no attraction for you, if you’re totally set apart and feel called to be a prophet, there’s a good chance you are called to be a prophet. There are many characteristics. There are many prophetic books to read about this subject to learn more about it. I don’t envisage that this book will cover a lot.

You want to check out some books on the prophetic and the prophetic office by more experienced prophets who have a lot more to say on the subject. Suffice to say now that if God has told you you’re called to be a prophet, if people have prophesied that you’re called to be a prophet, if your life sucks and you’ve had a really hard life and you’re misunderstood and you’ve been rejected most of your life and you’re really passionate for Jesus, there’s a very good chance you’re called to be a prophet. And if you’re called to be a prophet, you’ve just got to hold on and go through the processes and go through the time and be obedient and do everything the Lord calls you to do until you make it to the point where God is really using you and everything you turn your hand to will  be prospering. You have to wait till you’ve got God’s  favor in your life and you’ve got authority in your life,  and  that you’ll reach a stage where you’ll say things and people will take notice.

It will reach a stage where just like Jesus; the people will be astonished at your words like they were when Jesus spoke to the sermon on the mountain.

Matthew 7: 28—29 NLT

When Jesus was finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching for he taught with real authority, quite unlike the teachers of religious law.

The people were astonished it says in the new King James Version

So, when you’re in the office of prophet, you’ll be able to speak words and you’ll be able to give direction and do prophetic teaching and people will stand up and take notice of what you say. So now is the time that you’re called to be a prophet. Now is the time to obey and one of my tips that I can give you is learn to hear the voice of the Lord. Learn to hear Jesus or God or the Holy Spirit speaking to you and learn to jump when they say jump. Learn to obey when they say to do things Do you know you can’t get the gift of patience? You have to have the fruit of patience and the sad thing about a fruit is it’s got to grow and it’s got to be developed.

And so through the ten to twenty five years it takes between being called to the prophetic and being in the office of the prophet, you’ll actually learn patience and you’ll be a very patient person by the end.