How much stock do you put in prophecy?

[Neck]

Originally Posted by Malvaro

How about prophecies made about your ministry or the direction of your life??? Do you think of them as road-signs "silently" guiding your life or milemarkers "confirming" what had been previously said?

I, of course, believe that prophecies are still for today.... and could be right or wrong depending on who said them.... what are some guidelines that you use in deciding whether to write them off or not....

Prophecy is like knowing where you are going but not how fast you will get there.

All I am concerned about is the time between birth and death.

If God tarries we will all die.

Not knowing how fast I will get there either way.

So many men have played with the time calculator.

Remember the 88 reasons Christ was to return in 1988.

What a joke....

The prophectic word for any of us is this....

Stay in the truth and committed to God and repent of your sins.

And you will see the Kingdom of God...

[LaGirl]

Originally Posted by LadyChocolate

I see that thou spendeth too much timeth concerning the area of sports... Getteth the sportest offest your mindest.....

like i said.....depends on the person!

[HeavenlyOne]

I no longer believe in prophecy. Prophecy preachers burned me out on that a long time ago.

[Sherri]

H.O., I'm sorry that you feel that way about prophecies, because there are true prophets. My husband isn't a prophet, but he is often used in the prophetic gifting. I have heard him get very specific and God has used him mightily in this gift. He always tells people though to write it down and pray about it; not to change anything in their lives because of what someone prophesies. I think prophecies are for confirmation of what God is already doing in your life.

[Sister Alvear]

Sherri will you pm me your phone number? thanks..

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Sherri

H.O., I'm sorry that you feel that way about prophecies, because there are true prophets. My husband isn't a prophet, but he is often used in the prophetic gifting. I have heard him get very specific and God has used him mightily in this gift. He always tells people though to write it down and pray about it; not to change anything in their lives because of what someone prophesies. I think prophecies are for confirmation of what God is already doing in your life.

That sounds like a good, common sense way to look at the gift of prophecy.

[Trouvere]

Originally Posted by Neckstadt

Prophecy is like knowing where you are going but not how fast you will get there.

All I am concerned about is the time between birth and death.

If God tarries we will all die.

Not knowing how fast I will get there either way.

So many men have played with the time calculator.

Remember the 88 reasons Christ was to return in 1988.

What a joke....

The prophectic word for any of us is this....

Stay in the truth and committed to God and repent of your sins.

And you will see the Kingdom of God...

Brother I think you are looking at a different subject such as eschatology.

[HeavenlyOne]

Originally Posted by Sherri

H.O., I'm sorry that you feel that way about prophecies, because there are true prophets. My husband isn't a prophet, but he is often used in the prophetic gifting. I have heard him get very specific and God has used him mightily in this gift. He always tells people though to write it down and pray about it; not to change anything in their lives because of what someone prophesies. I think prophecies are for confirmation of what God is already doing in your life.

I have no doubt that God uses people for this purpose. I don't put much stock into it, however. I didn't mean to offend you.

[Felicity]

Originally Posted by whollyHis

There was time in my life, that I believed 100% in personal propecy, given to someone through the man of God. But, over the years, I have seen scads of prophecies NEVER come to pass, and I refuse to believe that it was because it was 'conditional' and that all of those precious folk failed God- thus, losing their 'word' from the Lord. Failed prophecy is NEVER the fault of the Prophet. It's always the person that was prophecied to that is at fault...at least that's what the 'prophets' tell us...*sigh* Where's the accountability? Can someone tell me THAT?

How much 'stock' do I put in personal prophecy? Not much.

Being given a prophetic word isn't always about foretelling. It's forthtelling in other words simply someone speaking into your life with a word of knowledge or word of wisdom that oftentimes confirms what God has already spoken to you and lets you know God knows where you're at and gives added knowledge or wisdom to encourage you in your situation.

I had this happen again just last Sunday AM. I was praying with someone else in the altar and the evangelist came along, laid hands on me and began to minister to me in the Holy Ghost and woah!! ... was the presence of God ever powerful and real.

He had no clue as to my own personal circumstances or situation or what's been going on in my life, my head or my heart yet he spoke directly and nailed right on the head where I've been at in regards to ministry.

I asked my husband yesterday if he's been talking to this preacher about me. He assured me that no, he definitely had not! That let me know that God spoke through this man with the word of knowledge and totally zeroed in on where I've been at .... like I said in regard to my own personal walk with God and usefulness and then let me know what the truth is, what God has for me and the promise that God's anointing, presence and power is with me.

Now it's up to me ..... (as it always is with all of us of course ) ..... whether or not I'm going to get on board and cooperate with what God is wanting and desiring and got planned for me.

[originalsecretplace]

Originally Posted by Malvaro

How about prophecies made about your ministry or the direction of your life??? Do you think of them as road-signs "silently" guiding your life or milemarkers "confirming" what had been previously said?

I, of course, believe that prophecies are still for today.... and could be right or wrong depending on who said them.... what are some guidelines that you use in deciding whether to write them off or not....

I believe in the gift of prophecy but I am very skeptical about how it's done today.

There is an office of Prophet which seems to be filled with many pretenders. There seems to be the prophecy circus that comes to town every so often that gets some people excited and into the building but doesn't seem to have any lasting effect when it leaves. In my own experience most personal prophecies are very vague and really could mean anything. Also, I've never heard anyone I know personally have a prophecy come true.

I've been at meetings where many things were promised as the "prophecy guy" was scheduled to speak to get people hyped up. People were prayed for but there were no healings; people were called out but there were nothing substantial. Of course, the excuse was that people's faith was low.

One other thing I noticed was that the prophecies were given mostly to the ministry. of course, they are the ones that invite people back.

If you think I've been disappointed and disallusioned by these meetings you are correct.

I've had more direction and God's will shown in my life by my brothers and sisters ministering daily than by the "prophet" coming to town. In those cases there was alot less hype and alot more ministry and substantial results.