| The Elijah Wave of Wonders; Highlights about the office of a prophet | |
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| Stace | Apr 23 2009, 02:52 PM Post #1 |
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Peter Tan's Whole Article Click Here * A prophet very seldom does counselling. In fact some prophets are not good at counselling at all and may appear to be brash and harsh. The counselling ministry takes patience and tolerance and a prophet is not called to that. * The prophetic office is associated with a call to celibacy. Many of the prophets like Elijah had to be called to celibacy because of the isolation that they were also called to. A prophet is someone who is called and raised up by God to deliver the rhema word to a generation, a group of people or to an individual. In the New Testament the rhema must conform to the logos (written word). * The pressures of the prophetic ministry can be too much for the married lifestyle. * In 1 Cor 7: 26-27 Paul wrote I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress - that it is good for a man to remain as he is: Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife. Paul is not giving a command, but he says he is giving advice to the Corinthian situation so it does not even apply to the church in general. It was a specific advice given at a specific time to a specific group of people. It was a time of distress, the distress being the hardship, persecution and tribulation that were coming upon the Corinthians and in that context, Paul said it was better not to be married. God knows the purposes and He knows the call He has for different people and celibacy is a peculiarity of the calling for the prophets. In 1 Kings 17, we see the minute Elijah gave the prophecy, he was pursued and chased after for three years. For three years, there was no way he could live a normal life in the ministry. * You can see that his first situation was loneliness in 1 Kings 19: 14. So God had to provide for him a companion in a different manner, an assistant prophet whom he could train and who would be a companion to him throughout his life. * A prophet's relationship is mainly vertical where he is primarily called to receive the word that God has, deliver it and get back in position with God. * If they are called, whether as a prophetess or a prophet there has to be a very special understanding in the family to the amount of time that a person with the office of a prophet needs to spend with God and away from the family. It is almost like the evangelistic office. There is a certain commitment to that too and you are required to move about and away from the family more often than others. * Anna the prophetess was called to the office of a prophet and it seemed that she could not move into the fullness of her ministry until after her husband died. Apparently after her husband's death, she was able to spend more time with God. She was able to give herself to fasting and prayer. She could not be the normal housewife hence she was only able to move fully in the office when she became a widow. * 2 Kings 22: 14 we see that Hulda the prophetess was married. * Although the New Testament prophets are different, that is they only confirm and do not just lead like in the Old Covenant yet it is necessary to be able to get a word from the Lord at any time. * To reach to this level, the first step you have to take is to enter into it as a consecration unto the Lord. The second step is a strong prayer life. The third step is the prophetic function that you move into. * They are naturally at times introverted and are withdrawn through spending a lot of time with God. They would also naturally withdraw from worldly entertainment. * The parents think their children are no longer normal when the children do not go out and play football like the other children but they just go and pray. The normal life in the world is a sinful life. What God has is that everyone has a special life. We have a special call and a special destiny that we must govern our lives according to the book that is written about us and fulfil it. In fulfilling your destiny, you may be peculiar to people. People may misunderstand you but this should not matter, for the real judgement is up there. Therefore just make sure your life is in line with the book written up there about your life. The tremendous peculiarity is the amount of time you need to spend with God in your prayer if you have a prophetic mantle. * That is why people who are called to the prophetic office have most problems with pastors and with organized ministries. They are unique in themselves and we need to understand the Elijah wave. * They need to rely on constant music of the right choice. That is the third characteristic - they are very inclined to music. In fact for some of them they need it all the time. That would mean that there are other sub areas because is an area that can evoke deep feelings, and deep emotional intensity. * Prophets tend to be highly sensitive which explains why many prophets cannot relate well to people and they end up not being accepted and for some of them their ministries are not promoted because of bad relationships with people. We need to understand the emotional aspect of a prophet's life, which can be highly explosive, but yet when they bring the word of the Lord it is a good word. * To an average person seeing an angel means an experience of a life time but to the prophet it is normal to see angels walking around, to see into the spiritual realm and to walk into that realm as if that realm is the only realm they live in. they are very visual and are always relating to the spirit world. * To an average person seeing an angel means an experience of a life time but to the prophet it is normal to see angels walking around, to see into the spiritual realm and to walk into that realm as if that realm is the only realm they live in. they are very visual and are always relating to the spirit world. * When the spirit world becomes natural with you, you become peculiar to the natural world. You begin to see things that are not there, you talk about things that are not there. You could be in the midst of a conversation and you could see or sense something in the spirit that the normal person does not sense and therefore your countenance change according to what you sense or what you picked up. * Paul, who was in the perfect will of God heard from God. Paul knew what he was supposed to do, what he was going to do and he told all these guys and said, "Keep it aside, I have to go where God wants me to go." Some preachers even said Paul went against God's will. This is not true because when he was in that place Jesus appeared to him and told Paul to be there until he was brought to Rome. Paul was in the perfect will of God, but when a prophet functions alone he tends to interpret his prophecies his own way. * Prophets do check on each other - 1 Cor 14: 29. prophets judge prophets. Prophets must come together so that when two or three prophets speak they can judge one another, because prophets deal in the area of the spoken word, the rhema which many times the Word is silent. For example you receive a word about a country and you do not have a specific scripture about that country. You are dealing with areas that are outside the Bible. Where is the check? When it is totally against the written Word we know it is off, but yet there are many things that are not off and yet they are unwritten. This is the reason why Paul said let two or three prophets speak and let the others judge. Now if a prophet is not willing to be judges by another prophet you will know that the person is not fully functioning in the area that God wants. If is quite understandable when you deal with the realm of the spirit and the high emotional intensity you need checks all the time. You need to be kept on the ground by others so that you would not be lost in the area of wrong perspective. |
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