The Manifestation Gifts - Gift Of Prophecy

The gift of prophecy is one of the three utterance gifts. It takes both tongues and interpretation of tongues to equal the gift of prophecy. It is a spiritual gift from the Holy Spirit and does not emanate from a person’s human psychic. To function in this gift, the person must be saved and filled with God’s Spirit. The gift of prophecy is not meant to correct the people, as that is the role of a prophet.

The gift of tongues is dependent upon the gift of interpretation of tongues in order for it to be effective in encouraging and comforting others.

The Lord loves to encourage His people and minister to them words of faith, hope, and love. The prophetic words given in the midst of the congregation will edify the whole body and the church is edified or lifted up when the prophetic word comes forth.

The Holy Spirit may use a person to convey a message to His people in a church and inspire that person to speak at the appropriate time. The gift given to that person makes that person available for that event.

The gift is to encourage the church to conduct itself in faith, courage, love, and good works. The message may be given to encourage a person or a group in times of distress. It may also be given to exhort His church to do His work or will.

The gift of prophecy is not for personal promotion but is intended for edification, exhortation, and comforting others.

We should encourage the gift of prophecy to function in the church.

We should never allow ourselves to stand in God's way regarding these gifts.

The gift of prophecy is not a prophetic gift in the true sense of the word and therefore does not know present circumstances or future events. It merely encourages and exhorts.

There is a lot of confusion in the body today on what constitutes the office of a prophet. Many people today declare themselves prophets simply because they prophesy, but not every Christian who prophesies is a prophet.

Many Christians who operate in the gift of prophecy claim to be prophets because they do not understand the true nature of the New Testament prophet.

Every prophet will have the gift of prophecy but not every person who has the gift of prophecy is a prophet. For example, every doctor provides medical care but not every person who provides medical care is a doctor.

Like all nine gifts, this gift is to encourage the church to conduct itself in faith, courage, love, and good works.

The gift of prophecy is not for personal promotion but is intended for the edification, exhortation, and comforting others. We should encourage the gift of prophecy to function in the church and we should never allow ourselves to stand in God's way regarding this gift.