Class: Introduction To Prophetic Series

PP#1: Pursue Kingdom Ministry - Class: Prophetic

PP#2: My personal journey in the gift or prophecy and prophetic ministry:

What Outreach taught me about the gift – Pentecostal View - speaking words in church services “How it happened” My own encounters with prophets in these days:

• The first time I prophesied – the burning stomach

• Sister Kay - The prophetess and the ring, the prophetess and the release.

• Share how I grew in this gift and how it rolled out in my life into pastoral ministry – My sermon at Grygla – Liberty Chapel!

• The dangers of this view of the prophetic. “Thus saith the Lord” approach – can cause us to use the Lord’s name in vain. Scripture: Exodus 20:7: “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.”

o New Life Word - CHC Word in 2008.

• The mistakes due to immature understanding of the prophetic.

• The growth! The introduction to the gift of prophecy in the Vineyard Movement – the balanced approach – a better New Testament model approach. My teachable spirit and adjusting to how I do the prophetic ministry and use the gift. “I believe the Lord has placed this on my heart” approach.

PP#3: Thesis: The prophetic ministry is needed more than ever today in the secular culture we live in – the decline away from Biblical truth, the web of deception and the loss of moral values opens the door for God to speak into the hearts of people. Prophecy is the Lord speaking through us His words, but it is designed to draw people to the heart of God. Prophecy is designed by God to encourage people, to lift people up and connect their heart to His heart of Love.

PP#4: Scriptures on the Prophetic:

Numbers 11:29: “But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!”

Acts 2:16-18: “No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: “In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.”

PP#5: 1 Corinthians 14:1, 31-33: “1Follow the way of love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy… “31For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged. 32The spirits of prophets are subject to the control of prophets. 33For God is not a God of disorder but of peace.”

Introduction:

What came to your mind when you first learned or heard the word - “Prophet?”

• A person – With lightening bolts in one hand? Judgement?

• An image of God being angry and the person revealing God’s anger to the people?

• A person calling out people’s sin?

o Story from Outreach – demon exposes the sin!

• Maybe a guy with wild hair who comes from the woods?

What comes into your mind when you hear the word, “prophecy?”

• A word you got that was hurtful and off center?

• A condemnation?

• A positive Word – A revelatory word?

• A word which says. “God knows me!”

Well in my case my mind would go back to the many Old Testament prophets! Especially one called Elijah – the man of God who took on wicked King Ahab and Jezebel! So, because my mindset was attached to this image of the prophetic ministry – I gravitated to that kind of message in my early years using this gift – this was the Pentecostal way in my early involvement with the prophetic.

Yes, the Bible speaks of these types of prophets – we especially find them in the OT.

I Kings 20:35 speaks about in the days or times of Elijah that there rose a company of men called “sons of prophets.” These called and anointed men of God squared off with secular rulers and cities of the day. Directing people, communities and nations back to God and exposing the false prophets of the day. They wreaked havoc on the Kingdom of darkness, they went after the powers of darkness with God’s Word and power. They raised THE DEAD, healed the sick, parted rivers, destroyed false prophets – even killing them – they saw revival spread in their lands as they drove back the darkness. These prophets were feared by the people and even by kings and queens, they were hated by evil kings and queens. But they walked in great purity and kept God at the forefront of their lives. Many were martyred for their stance for God. But they stood up against the darkness and spoke God’s Word to the people.