Prophetic Ministries Today

We must pray, hear and the hard part, obey. The Bible shows us that obedience always pays. God has never chasten, beat or condemn anyone for obeying Him. When you obey God, the blessings will come and overtake you. You will not be able to out run your blessings or hide from them. They will seek you out and find you. Then why do we spend so much time crying out for blessings? There is something missing in the “formula” of Christianity. There is something missing on how to get your prayers answered. The answer is not in a formula. It is in the relationship.

Jesus did signs and wonders in many different ways. Sometime he spit on them, sometimes he said, “Go, you are healed”. Sometimes he prayed for them and laid hands on them. Other times, people laid hands on Him and Jesus said, “Who touched me?” such as the woman who had an issue of blood. He said, “Your faith has healed you.” It wasn’t because the woman believed harder than anybody else. It was not by her knowledge. It was not by her belief. It was by faith which is a gift of God! Faith is not something you do. It is something that happens to you. You can not “do” a gift. You do not conjure a gift. Once God has given you the gift of faith, all you have to do is walk it out. Of all those people who were groping at Jesus, only one had the word of God, the Father. The word that the woman received was that if she touched Jesus, he would heal her. Jesus knew someone was healed because he felt the virtue leave him. Have you ever prayed for someone and all of a sudden you feel yourself empty into that person as God gave you the words to pray? When you pray what God says from heaven, every word will come to past exactly, 100%.

Faith without manifestation becomes dull very fast but we are going from faith to faith. Now that you believe what is written, let us go on to what is spoken. This is treacherous territory. You cannot walk away from scripture just because you hear from God. You will get messed up! Scripture is the “tuning fork”. You have to stay in the written word in order to identify the one who is speaking because there are many voices and spirits.

“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” 1 John 4:1

How do you test the spirits? First you must be with people who hear God. And you need to get confirmation on every word you hear. This means that you wait until God tells you to move. If it is of God, he will let you know. He will confirm your word. You will not make God mad if you ask God to confirm the word with two or more witnesses, through the written word, through dreams and visions. If it is of God, he will do it. But if it is of the devil, God doesn’t have the time. He is too busy. He’ll walk away and leave you alone.

There is a lot of people who want to walk out in emotions because you can hear a lot of things in your emotions. You can even do a lot of good things because of your emotions.

“Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this will we do, if God permit.” Hebrew 6:1-3

Things that you do out of emotion might seem to be a good thing but to God it is dead works because He did not tell you to do it. For example, you might have felt it is a good thing to give money to someone who was having a hard time. But instead, God was angry with you because you got in His way. God was trying to teach that person to walk by faith but you came along and did things your way rather than His way. You must pray, hear and obey. It is important to know God’s way.