I have watched with disgust the alarming rate at which so called believers who are staunch members of a given church visit 'prophets' for special prayers to their 'problems' is it that they believe prayers are answered faster/better in other places, do you do it? If yes why?I believe when you call on God in ur church or u go to ur own pastor in your church.god will hear...

Faith-less unbelievers who act and hide under the shadow of Christianity..

They wanna use the name of Jesus like Paracetamol

synergy85: I have watched with disgust the alarming rate at which so called believers who are staunch members of a given church visit 'prophets' for special prayers to their 'problems' is it that they believe prayers are answered faster/better in other places, do you do it? If yes why?I believe when you call on God in ur church or u go to ur own pastor in your church.god will hear...

God gave prophets to the body of christ as gift. A prophet is a seer. He sees beyond the ordinary into the realm of the spirit. Many prophets have gifts of healing also . ( not all ) so apart from diagnosing the cases ,they can solve the issues too.

As much as the office of the prophet is real ,one should not become a slave to a prophet. they should learn to live by faith in the word and acting on the word, but if a matter goes beyond what their faith can handle he can see the pastor .

Prophets are there to perfect the saints, to edify the church and for the work of the ministry but as @Joagbaje said, Christians live by faith and not by prophecy. A good prophesy comes to pass as we live on in faith and God's dictates while a bad may be averted as well just by the same way of living in Christ.

The problem occurs when people try to live their life by prophesy. David would have killed King Saul to take his throne since Prophet Samuel had annointed him years before to be king (infact some people would have called him a fool for bypassing the opportunity to kill him) and Joseph would have slept with Poriphar's wife as a sure ticket to lordship and possibly planned to murder portiphar for his dream to come to pass....that is the reason why we should not live by word of prophecy but by Faith. Prophecy will naturally flow and come to pass or not depending on how we walk with God.

Joagbaje:
■ God gave prophets to the body of christ as gift. A prophet is a seer. He sees beyond the ordinary into the realm of the spirit. Many prophets have gifts of healing also . ( not all ) so apart from diagnosing the cases ,they can solve the issues too.
■ As much as the office of the prophet is real ,one should not become a slave to a prophet. they should learn to live by faith in the word and acting on the word, but if a matter goes beyond what their faith can handle he can see the pastor .

1. Yet the same Jesus Christ clearly declared all who would come as prophets and teachers in His name as false prophets and false teachers. Jesus Christ even declared that He alone is the Good Shepherd indicating that any others who appeared as shepherds in his name were wicked folks. So, tell me, are you people for real?

2. Stop lying! There is nothing real about the office of prophets that Christians claim to hold. Jesus Christ, in His Gospel, made known that He was the last prophet sent from God and that all those who come in his name are wolves in sheep's clothing.

Alwaystrue:
▪■Prophets are there to perfect the saints, to edify the church and for the work of the ministry but as @Joagbaje said, Christians live by faith and not by prophecy. A good prophesy comes to pass as we live on in faith and God's dictates while a bad may be averted as well just by the same way of living in Christ. .

How exactly do prophets, whom Jesus Christ made know were all false since He never sent any of them out using His name, go about perfecting those whom you tag saints?