99. PROPHECY AND DIRECT REVELATION
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And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams! (Acts 2:17).
1. Don't feed your body and starve your soul!--Come to God's movie cafe of Heaven which'll feed and save your soul forever! Thrill to his messages, love His pictures, revel in those dreams, get excited by His revelations!
2. I don't care what kind of a revelation you get, if it's contrary to the Bible, don't believe it!
3. God can use Scripture any way He wants to!
4. The way to recognise if a dream is really a message from the Lord is if it is outstandingly vivid, you wake up immediately afterward, you remember every detail and you have the feeling it's something special and important.
5. Many of the prophecies of God have intermediate fulfillment's, but they also have ultimate fulfillment's!
6. Some prophecies are conditional and depend on how people react and obey.
7. Many of the prophecies of God have had many fulfillment's in many different individuals.
8. God seldom ever gives a picture without a message.
9. Time is important, Beloved. Always keep a record of when you pray or something supernatural happens. The time may be significant.
10. How marvelous are the ways of the Lord, yet how simple and childlike are His graphic little pictures!
11. When a revelation doesn't seem to make any sense at all--watch out! There's nothing the Lord gives me that hasn't had some meaning.
12. Que Sera, Sera--Whatever will be, will be! Because God has said it would be, regardless of the unbelievers, scoffers, and mockers.
13. Prophecy itself is just letting the Lord flow through You!
14. All signs may point in that direction, but it's like circumstantial evidence until God specifically states it.
15. God's pictures are really powerful--Picture Power!
16. It's a damnable doctrine of Church devils to confine all the truth and revelations of God strictly to the Bible! True prophesy won't teach anything contrary, but it can sure fill in a lot of gaps!
17. Prophecy often has immediate fulfillment and also long-range fulfillment.
18. Usually a public prophesy will come with great force and inspiration and be Scriptural, edifying, instructive, encouraging and uplifting!--It's the Father encouraging His children.--Only seldom is it scolding!
19. God may not give you immediate direct revelations because He wants you to learn something by looking at possible alternatives and solutions to the problems.
20. The Lord keeps giving us a little bit more just as we're able to take it and receive it and comprehend it! He couldn't give it to us all at once, it would be too much to swallow! Isn't it wonderful how the Lord so gently leads us along step by step!
21. Under the Old Testament plan, God only anointed with His Spirit certain leaders, mostly just certain kings and certain prophets, who received the Holy Spirit, and the whole burden of leadership was on them. But when the New Testament age dawned on the day of Pentecost, He completely threw out the old system of making everyone so totally dependent upon leadership for their guidance and He made every single individual Christian responsible directly to the Holy Spirit Herself. He says, " Now the day's come when I'll pour out My Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and daughters shall prophesy." (Acts 2:17,18)
22. If You're going to talk in tongues, ask for the gift of interpretation so the church can be edified, don't just rattle away in tongues all day not knowing what you're saying.
23. I gave never had long-winded drawn-out directional prophecies about different people and telling them what to do and where to go. That's the stuff that's dangerous. My mother had a marvelous gift of prophecy but she had seen it do so much damage.
24. Jesus speaks anytime, anywhere, if you believe!
25. "What wouldest thou know of the Lord thy God? Speak, ask Him whatsoever thou desirest, if perchance the Spirit shall speak unto thee and reveal the secrets of the dark places!"
26. Sometimes it takes time to understand what God has said! Sometimes it takes a little time for His Words to sink in! Sometimes it even takes a few months or years before the full meaning of His revelations dawn on us and we finally "perceive" and "understand". And sometimes it's not quite yet His time for You to fully understand. Many of the prophets did not understand what they were prophesying and their books and their books were not opened to us and the interpretation of their meaning understood until these last days.
27. If God didn't want His children to know anything specific about the future, then why did He waste half the Bible talking about it!
28. Despise not prophesying, forbid not to speak in tongues! We'd rather have a little wild-fire along with the real fire, than to squelch all the fire and have no fire at all.
29. Watch out about limiting the Spirit! But of course when you do allow freedom of the Spirit, you sometimes open the door to false spirits too, and there's quite often somebody who will give some prophecy out of the spirit inspired by a spirit that is not of God.
30. Even if you don't think much of the person prophesying, you have to give them a chance. For where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, and when there is liberty, the Devil always likes to take advantage of it. (2Co.3:17)
31. You must let them speak, then judge it, because if you don't, you're judging a matter before you hear it, and it is a shame and reproach unto to you! (Pr.18:13)
32. How to tell the difference between a prophecy of God and one of the Devil's or your own spirit:
1) Is it Scriptural?
2) Is it approved by God's chosen leadership?
3) Is it established in the mouths of several witnesses?
4) Is it fulfilled?
5) Is it helpful and encouraging?
33. To prophesy is one of the most serious things you can do: You'd better be sure it is of God, or shut up!
34. There should never be more than two prophecies given in a row without stopping to judge them, or you'll forget them!
35. When judging prophecies, the leader should ask the Holy Spirit to bring to attention anything that needs comments.
36. True prophecy does not generally administer condemnation. It is a rare case when the Lord accuses, as Nathan before David, and it has to be very bad and something that has hurt everybody, or the Lord doesn't usually bring it out publicly unless someone has to be brought to public repentance.
37. Throughout the Old and New Testaments God has always spoken: To lead, guide, comfort, encourage and correct His children.
38. Concerning spiritual gifts, we are not to be ignorant, but we are to covet and desire them, especially prophecy.
39. Hearing form the Lord is our spiritual nourishment--and you've got to be able to hear from the Lord!
40. The power is always on, the message is always there. God's Spirit is like a broadcasting station, broadcasting all the time. All you have to do is throw the switch and tune in. You have to have the vacuum and sincerely open your mouth and He'll fill it!
41. Turn on whatever little power or strength of the spirit that you have that He's already charged your tiny little battery with--your own spirit, so that your circuits may be activated to receive His powerful signals as you tune into His messages dropped out of the Heavenlies.
42. The hand of faith turns the knob which makes the contact and throws the switch and turns on what little power you have, and the hand of hope turns with expectancy, feeling for the frequency upon which God is broadcasting, and suddenly His great broadcasting station booms in with tremendous positive volume and power and certainty--and the messages come through loud and clear.
43. Let all things be done unto edifying. Make sure that a prophecy strengthens and draws the body closer to Jesus.
44. After the Lord speaks two or three times, the responsible shepherd that is present in the group should stop to review and exhort on the contents of the prophecies. If the Lord has more to say through another prophet, the other prophet can wait, because the spirits of the prophets are subject unto the prophets. (1Co.14:32)
45. The prophets can hold and control it until the shepherd gives them the signal to go ahead. God is not the author of confusion but of peace, so beware and remember, edification is the result of Godly prophecy. The Devil's game is confusion.
46. We'd get around and hold hands and praise the Lord a little bit--priming the pump--please Him by praising Him--like coming before the King and salaaming, and then we'd shut up and see what He had to say. That's the way it usually works. You praise the Lord first of all--maybe somebody leads in prayer--then the stream of praise begins to die down and you wait for the Lord to speak and then maybe somebody gives a little application or judgement of it.
47. Judging a prophecy: The Scripture warns us, "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the World." (1Jn.4:1)
48. In 1Kings 13 a prophet was slain by a lion for following a prophecy that contradicted what God had already shown him.
49. If you're not skillful to tune in your fine tuning and absolutely zero in at the dead centre, or rather live centre, of God's perfect frequency--with tremendous concentration and without distraction, and if you allow any other signals to pull you off course or distort with static, God's message may become faint, distorted, interrupted, unclear or even totally jammed by the static and power of the Enemy!
50. You cannot be tuned in on two frequencies at the same time. The Devil is just like another station truing to butt in and cover up. He tries to jam the circuit, jam the frequency, so that you can't hear God's station. He deliberately tries to come right in on God's frequency and jam God's station with signals and false impulses.
51. How severely the prophet is dealt with largely depends on how serious the false prophecy is.
52. What the Lord says is going to happen. When He gives a direct prophecy or revelation, I believe with all my heart it's going to happen--not always the way I think it's going to happen, but it's going to happen.
53. Though I am your leader and I am your prophet and God uses me as His channel, that doesn't mean you can't prophesy, but any outstanding new revelations which come to you first and not to me I'd be leery of. I believe that the Lord would reveal things to me before He'd reveal them to you.
54. Just don't go around telling everybody that I predicted these things, because I didn't, the Lord did, and if they don't happen just like this, don't blame Him--but blame us for not having interpreted His predictions properly. And if there is any error it is due to the frailty of human understanding and not to the failure of God.
55. It is a very common thing with the Lord to give one person the message and the other person the interpretation--one person the prophecy and another person the meaning.
56. When the prophet explodes with the Word, it's a burst of the Truth, like a burst of light!
57. Some of our prophets have the spirits of departed prophets, and that's how you get a gift of prophecy, it's the spirit of a departed prophet. You're nothing but a channel that they work through. They're the ones that have that wisdom, that gift, that talent, that supernatural tongue and who give the prophecy or the interpretation!
58. He can speak through you, any one of you. "In the last days I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams." (Joel 2:28)
59. How long has it been since you let the Lord speak though you? I have to do it all the time for your sake. Don't you let Him speak through you for your little Family's sake or your little Home's sake?
60. Why just live on yesterday's food? Why not have something fresh every day? You can and should hear from God every day.
61. How long has it been since you heard the voice of the Lord yourself in person? How long since you have prophesied or interpreted for the benefit of His children, passed on His messages to them? That's how we began, and that's how Christ's church began on the day of Pentecost.
62. You say, "I read a MO Letter every day, so I hear from the Lord every day." Well, that's very important, like reading the Bible or the recorded Words of the Lord, but it's also wonderful to hear straight from the Lord yourself.
63. Does your little Heavenly Home get together for prayer sometime every day?--Pray together in the unity of the spirit, pray in the spirit, pray in the gifts of the Spirit and hear from the Lord?
64. The only things that we can be absolutely sure and dogmatic about are what God has specifically predicted and we can read in black-and-white in the Word, or direct revelation that we have received from the Lord, such as the general events that are coming.
65. The later the hour becomes, the more specific the Lord becomes in His predictions and His prophecies for our own comfort and encouragement so we'll know exactly what's happening and we'll know specifically what's about to happen and what's going to happen next. The further we get into the picture, the more specific the details become.
66. There are certain specifics to Bible prophecy which are absolutely undeniable, incontrovertible and unchangeable!--But there are certain variables dependent upon the will of man and his actions and his choices which at this present moment are still in flux.
(See also No.244, 282A, 295, 296, 325A, 326, 351, 363, 545, 620, 622, 695, 764, 829, 844, 918, 976, 989, 1273, 1285, 1286, 1317, 1358, 1436, 1492, 1519, 1546, 1553, 1554.)
67. NUM.12:6 And he said, Hear now My Words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make Myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
68. PSA.119:13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of Thy mouth.
69. ISA.42:9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
70. JER.23:28a The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my Word, let him speak My Word faithfully.
71. EZE.3:17-19 Son of man, I made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the Word at My mouth, and give then warning from Me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
72. ACTS20:31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
73. 1CO.13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
74. 1CO.13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
75. 1CO.14:1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
76. 1CO.14:3,4 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
77. 1TH.5:19,20 Quench not the Spirit. Despise not prophesyings.
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