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Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 7:26pm On Apr 12, 2020
Happy Sunday beloved of God
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 3:09pm On Apr 17, 2020
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Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 8:52am On Apr 19, 2020
CHRIST IS THE ESSENCE OF PROPHECY

"The Son radiates Gods own glory and expresses the very nature of God" (Hebrews 1:3).

Prophecy is God unveiling Himself, it is the invisible God stepping out of invisibilit. When you study the Bible closely you will realize that prophecy goes beyond words, there are those that prophesy without speaking any word. Words is one of the ways of expressing or unveiling yourself i.e through your words people will come to know you, they will see you for who you truly are. Prophetic words is one way God reveals or unveils Himself but this is only an aspect of the prophetic. The prophetic in it riches (its many aspects) is the revelation of God. Whether it be by words or by any other demonstration, whether it is a prediction of future events, a declaration of God's mind or a narration of a past event, it is all about God stepping out of invisibility to unveil Himself. God unveiling His omniscient, His wisdom, His heart and His nature, it is indeed the revelation of God. The Bible says Christ is the visible image of the invisible God, Christ is God revealed. The very stature of Christ unveils God.

To see Christ and to come in contact with him is to have a revelation of God. The Son is the body by which the Father is unveiled and expressed. The invisible God cannot been seen except through the Son — the Father is seen in the Son. This is why Jesus said, "If you had really known me, you would know who my Father is. From now on, you do know him and have seen him!... Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father!" (John 14:7, 9). Seeing the Son is seeing the Father and knowing the Son is knowing the Father.


"Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. " (Revelation 19:10).

This verse is saying when Christ is made factual, when he is proven or unveiled then prophecy becomes possible. Without Christ there is nothing like prophecy; without the Son, the Father remains invisible. If prophecy is the unveiling of the invisible God, then prophecy, in essence, is Christ. Prophecy is the Son unveiling the Father. The Son unveils the Father through words as the Son is the Word of God (John 1:1-2). The Son also unveils the Father through other kinds of expression and whatever the expression may be, the Bible tells us that Christ is the expression of God (Heb 1:3). Christ is God expressing Himself, so when one prophesy, that person is expressing Christ and as Christ is expressed and made evident God is unveiled. This is what prophecy is, it is a person, it is Christ. No, prophecy is not words, it is not signs, it is a living person.



You may be looking at a word of prophecy and yet not see the prophecy. This is because the prophecy is not the words but the person. Until you see the person you have not seen the prophecy, God has not been unveiled to you. You must see Christ in it, for only him could unveil God to you and a prophecy is not a prophecy if it is not unveiling God to you. It is all about the Son unveiling the Father, yes Christ is the true prophecy, any prophecy that is not Christ is not prophecy at all. So through out the Old Testament you see Christ; Christ everywhere, in the mouth of the prophet and in every other kind of prophetic demonstration. In essence, Christ is every prophecy prophesied by the Spirit of God. Christ is God unveiling Himself through prophecy.
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 12:19pm On Apr 19, 2020
Happy Sunday beloved of God
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 5:37pm On Apr 19, 2020
CHRIST IS THE PROPHET

"The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him... gives us the same promise in the Lord's own words: "I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him" (Deuteronomy 18:15, 18).

When the Children of Israel complained that they could not bear God's voice, God said He would raise "a Prophet". The word used was singular, this means God was referring to a particular prophet. The Jews and their rabbi had always understood that this prophecy would one day be fulfilled in a literal way by the coming of "the Prophet" which is the Messiah. The Jews knew that God was referring to the Christ. The day God spoke that word marked the beginning of the era of prophets in Israel (before then the Israelites have never had any prophet in all of their history). When God said He would raise a prophet He was referring to Jesus but we found that God raised several prophets before Him. These prophets were meant to be prefigure of the coming Prophet. They were meant to give the children of Israel an idea of what the Prophet would look like. So we find that the main purpose of the office or function of prophet in the life of the Israelites is to stand as a guarantee of the promised, a prefigure of the reality and a forstate of that which is to come. And he is now here, he is the Christ, Jesus.

"Long ago God spoke many times and in many ways to our ancestors through the prophets. And now in these final days, he has spoken to us through his Son. God promised everything to the Son as an inheritance, and through the Son he created the universe" (Hebrews 1:1-2).

Christ is the prophet; he is the consummation of the prophet. All other prophet before him are mere prefigure, type and pictures of him. He is the essence, the meaning and purpose of prophet. Every other prophetic function carried out before him were simply meant to lead to his coming. He is the final destination, the finished line of that which is called prophet. Ever since the beginning, God had been speaking and speaking through human vessel known as prophet but it got to a point where His very word came down from heaven in flesh. The embodiment of all that He had said and all that He would ever say is now here in flesh. The Word of God no longer need to come through human vessel, he has gotten his own body, he has become flesh and now lives with us. All these while, the Word had to depend on the people we call Prophets to speak him down from heaven but now he no longer needs that. He has gotten his own body, he has come down from heaven himself, he is here now!

Do you understand what this means? We no longer need to depend on Prophets to speak down God's word, His Word has become flesh (he walks the earth) and we can run to him anytime, to experience the word of God for ourselves. We can reach out for ourselves and touch the Word, we can apprehend it whenever we want. The era of the prophet has reached it end, its very purpose has been fulfilled and now the Prophet, the original one, the promised one, the very reality, he is now here. He lives with us and even more, he lives in us. We have become the body of the Prophet.

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Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 8:53am On Apr 26, 2020
Now is the time for sons to arise and begin to manifest the fullness of God

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Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 11:30am On Apr 26, 2020
Happy Sunday
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 1:47pm On Apr 26, 2020
THE BODY OF THE PROPHET

This post is a part of a series on the prophetic and in the previous posts we discussed that Christ is the prophet; he is the essence, the meaning, the purpose and the reality of that which we call 'prophet'. If you haven't read the previous posts you can find it listed below this post. Now, Jesus is the first prophet, the one promised by God from the beginning of the era of the Prophets. But before he came God had to use human prophets and these prophets stand as a prefigure of the real and original Prophet, which is Christ. God only needed human prophet because His Word hasn't gotten a body, but now the Word has become flesh and tabernacled with us. God now has His Word on earth, and this is all thanks to the body that His Word has gotten. The Word is the Prophet, he has gotten a body of his own and he no longer needs human vessels to help declare him on earth. Through this body that he has acquired he can now walk the earth, he can freely express himself by himself. He can unveil God himself by freely being himself, living his life.

"Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?" (John 14:6).

Right now Jesus has left in the flesh but he didn't leave with his body. He still has his body present on earth, he still walk the earth, using every opportunity to unveil God. The body of the Prophet is here on earth, it is the Church. Jesus is the fulfillment of both the Law and the Prophets (Luke 24:44), this means that just as the Law ended with Jesus, the Prophet also ended in Jesus. When the real prophet came the shadows and the prefigures were no longer need. The purpose of the prophet was fulfilled and there is no longer any need for any prophet. Now somebody may ask, why is there still the prophetic minister? This question would be discussed properly in another post, all I can say right now is that the new testament prophet was not really meant to prophecy to us but to build the rest of the body of the Prophet (Christ) so that we can reach the fullness of the Prophet, being able to express the Prophet (Christ) in his fullness.

The purpose of a body is to express the person onto glory. What do you seek as a person? You want to be able to freely express yourself in your body. In your human body, you seek to express the fullness of yourself to the fullest, you want the real you to shine fort through that body that the world may behold your glory. This is what the Prophet (Christ) wants for his body (the Church), he wants that his body express him to the fullest. He wants every member of his body to be alive enough to express his prophetic nature, because this is who he is, he is the Prophet. And we are the body of the Prophet, the vessel by which the Prophet expresses his nature and unveils God that the world might behold the beauty and glory of the Father.
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 9:31am On May 03, 2020
Good morning
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 2:02pm On May 03, 2020
THE MINISTRY OF THE PROPHET

"Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip Gods people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of Gods Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christians" (Ephesians 4:11-13).

These are the ministries of Christ that were given to equip the Church. Note that the purpose of these ministries is to equip the Church. They are not meant simply to serve the Church and help Christians live a happy life. Their responsibility is not to manage sin and ensure that the people do not sin too much and get God angry. The Bible says, "their responsibility is to equip Gods people". To equip them to live a happy life? No, it says in the bible that the people (the body of Christ) were to be equipped to do his work. Who's work? The work of the head, the work of the Prophet. The ministry of the Prophet in the new testament is to equip the rest of the body so that they would be able to function properly as a body and freely express the Prophet (Christ) in his nature.

The verse says that the people of God i.e Christians are to be equipped "until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ." The prophet in the new testament Christianity are meant to equip fellow Christians, teaching them until we reach the same level of knowledge and we are all able to operate in the prophetic like they do. The goal is that every one of us would reach the full and complete standard of Christ the Prophet. Each one of us are to be fully matured in the prophetic, we would be giving prophetic words, declaring the mind of God in everything and unto anyone. This is because we are all the body of the Prophet. The only way the Prophet (Christ) can be fully active in his body is if every member of his body is fully alive in the prophetic.

Christ wants to be alive, he wants to be fully active on earth, he wants his presence to be evident, he wants to fill everywhere. He wants to be himself, freely expressing himself among men. And to achieve this he has placed in the Church ministers with special gifts and with the responsibility of equipping the Church until they attain fullness. Therefore the new testament prophet is not meant to simply give you prophecy, he is not there so that you can completely rely on him for the word of God. You are a member of the body of the Prophet and you are meant to operate in the prophetic too. If your prophet is not teaching you how to operate in the prophetic then he is not fulfilling the mandate of God upon your life, rather he has subjected you to immaturity and has made you an affliction to the whole body of Christ.

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Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 8:12am On May 10, 2020
Happy Sunday beloved of God
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 2:49pm On May 10, 2020
THE TWO KINDS OF PROPHETS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

I wrote a series on the prophetic and shared it on my blog. If you haven't read it please do. This current post is expounding on the last post in that series titled "The Ministry Of The Prophet". From that series you will understand that we are all prophets as members of the body of the Prophet (Christ). This Christ exists in unsearchable riches, diverse dimension, different members of the same body. Each member are unique in their expression of Christ the Prophet, and that is how it is meant. We are all supposed to operate in the prophetic in diverse and unique ways.

"Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip Gods people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of Gods Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christians" (Ephesians 4:11-13).

We are all prophets, but then Jesus gave a gift to his body, and this gift is called prophet. Now, the purpose of this gift is to equip the Church and build them up into maturity of who they are as the body of the Prophet. This means this gift is meant to teach Christians and built them up to be able to operate in the prophetic to the fullest (maturity). If you've noticed, I have just mentioned two kinds of prophet.

1. The Teaching Prophet
2. The Functioning Prophet

We are all meant to be functioning prophets in our spheres of life. Jesus desire a functioning body where all members are functionally alive. So we should all be functioning, actively alive, actively expressing our Lord who is the Prophet. Now, to ensure that His body is properly functioning Jesus has set in the body another kind of prophet, one which I would like to call the teaching prophet. Yes, it's a teaching prophet because the purpose is not just to prophesy (function), but to train, build up and equip other members of the body to become functional in the prophetic.

The gift or ministry that Ephesians 4:11 mentioned is not the gift or ministry of prophesying, but the ability to be able to teach others and equip them to function in the prophetic. The reason why many Christians are not functioning in the prophetic today is because those that God has called to equip the saints to function in the prophetic did not grow into the fullness of that gift. Rather they stop in the stage of just prophesying to the people of God. Once they get to this stage they feel they have fulfilled their ministry and then they stop growing.

They get carried away in doing "ministry", and then they begin to suffer from stunted growth as a result of burnout in ministry. Burnout, because it was never meant to be that way. The Church was never meant to have few prophets, ministering to a large number of people. Rather it should be everyone moving in the prophetic in their various sphere of life. It sad because many ministers do not grow into the fullness of their ministry before they die.

Kenneth E. Hagin said after twelve years of ministry, Jesus told him that he had just entered the first stage of his ministry. He was so shocked, and was like, "what then have I been doing for the past 12 years". Then Jesus answered, "You are lucky, many ministers die without even entering the first stage". To the eyes of the public, these ministers would have been called very successful and they would have become role models—the peak that many are pursuing. Sadly, this peak is not even the beginning stage, it is still largely kindergarten.

The body of Christ, for the last centuries, has been largely in the kindergarten. But now, the Lord is demanding for mature sons, and this would involve mature ministries where every Christian is being trained to operate in the fullness of God, measuring up to the full standard of Christ. Look at the standard of Christ when he walked the earth, he did all kinds of mind blowing miracles. But that standard increased when he resurrected, ascended, glorified and was seated at the right hand of power.

This new standard is what we should measure up to. That is why Jesus said the work that he did in his lower standard we would do greater than that, "because I go unto my Father." (John 14 :12). Yes, he would ascend a higher standard, that is why we would do greater works than what he did on earth, for we are called to measure up to his glorified standard.

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Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 9:14pm On May 10, 2020
We have a long way to grow, there is so much we must learn, activate and aquire. May the Lord help us

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Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 6:33am On May 17, 2020
Happy Sunday
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 10:39am On May 17, 2020
LIBRARY ANALOGY OF THE REALM OF THE PROPHETIC (1); THE REALM

I feel it would be much easier to grasp the prophetic realm by using library as an analogy. I am not saying the prophetic realm is indeed a library. No, it is a spiritual reality. I am only using this analogy to make it easier to explain and understand the nature of the prophetic realm and the things that goes on in it—this includes prophetic experiences, prophetic gifts, prophetic ministry or offices, prophetic dimensions, maturity in the prophetic, and etc.

Alright, so let's picture the prophetic as a library. This library is filled with books and each books either contain prophetic experiences, prophetic word, or knowledge about the past, present and future. The Spirit of Truth, who was sent to guide us into all truths is more like the librarian or some kind of AI system that helps you in navigating through the library. I am not trying to imply the Holy Spirit is impersonal, I am only trying to create an analogy that would enable me explain certain things.

"When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future." (John 16:13).

There is the Spirit of Truth to guide you through this realm where lies all the knowledge of God. He could take you to a book and show you the future, he could lead you to another book where you get specific words from God, or he could take you to a book where you would be caught up in some vision or experience. The realm of the prophetic is a literal location in the spirit. You can close your eyes, focus on entering into that realm, rest on the Spirit to lead you into it, and wait on the Lord. Then you will just find yourself caught up in that realm, because it is very real.

Again, I am not saying it looks like a liberal, it is just spirit. It's substance is spirit, and once you are in that realm you will know. You will feel being pulled into visions, knowledge or experiences. It's all spirit in substance. The reason I am using this library analogy is because once you understand that it is like a library you will be able to learn how to navigate. So many Christians do not know that you can navigate the realm of the prophetic. They think once you enter you will just have to take whatever you stumble on.

No, you don't have to take whatever you stumble on and leave that way. You can still navigate and explore that realm. You can search for whatever knowledge you want, whether past, present or future. You can enter into God's mind and pick a prophetic word. And you can wait on God to lead you into a prophetic experience. Yes, sometimes the Lord can ask you to come wait for him in the realm of the prophetic. That was were John was waiting when he was taken to see the events in the book of revelation.

"I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet," (Rev 1:10).

The realm of the prophetic is neither in heaven or on earth. It is in God; we are called to exist in God with all the members of the Godhead. The truth is that we have become members of a member (Christ) of the Godhead, as such we exist where the Godhead have been existing before anything was created. This realm is beyond time, because time too was created. So we can be in heaven, and by the Spirit enter into the realm of the prophetic, or we can be on earth and enter into the realm of the prophetic by the Spirit.

The realm of the prophetic is in God, that is why when you want to enter into that realm you focus on God until you penetrate into it in God. Well, this post is just an introduction to the series. There is so much to be discussed on this series, so just try to follow.
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 10:29am On May 24, 2020
Happy Sunday beloved of God
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 2:10pm On May 24, 2020
LIBRARY ANALOGY OF THE REALM OF THE PROPHETIC (2); MATURE SONS

This post belongs to a series, and to understand what the series is about you should read the first post of this series. Now, the prophetic realm is a dimension in God, not a dimension in heaven or on earth. There are various dimensions in God, and the thing about maturing in God is that one can be maturity in one dimension and not mature in another.

This is just how we see it, we see some people maturing in the power dimension of God yet not maturing in virtue. And we see some people maturity in virtue yet not maturing in the power or prophetic dimension in God. Yes, it happens that way, we see it all over history. And sometimes we try to downplay certain dimension of God because of this. But no, every dimension of God is important. We are not making things better by downplaying one dimension of God in order to exalt the other.

It is not virtue that takes one to heaven, neither is it power or the prophetic. Rather it is by grace we are saved, and it is by grace any one of us would make heaven. As long as you are standing on grace—no matter what dimension you are more mature in—you will be counted worthy to inherit the kingdom. Learning to stand on grace is another topic on it own, but the point I am trying to make here is that we should not exalt one dimension of God and downplay the other. We should rather love all of God, want all of God, pursue all of God, and grow into all of God.

Every Christian should grow into maturity in the prophetic just like in the other dimensions of God. Growing in the prophetic is not meant for only those called into a prophetic office. In this series we would later explain the part/role of the prophets (those specifically called to the prophetic ministry) in the realm of the prophetic. Yes, the prophets have their special role, yet each one of us believer should grow into maturity in the prophetic.

God desire to have mature sons, and mature sons are those who have come into oneness with the Son. They attain this one in the process of exploring and growing in various dimensions in God. Although the dimensions of God is infinite, however as the sons pursue maturity in all the dimensions they know, all of a sudden they would come to that point of oneness with the Son. And when that happens, they are fully mature in all the dimensions of God in Christ. They are able to flow in any way that God wants to flow through them.

We want to become those mature sons that God desire, and that's why we are pursuing maturity in the prophetic as well as other dimensions of God. Now, back to our library analogy. When sons become mature in the prophetic they can easily access this library, they understand the fellowship of the Spirit of Truth, and by the Spirit they can navigate to every nook and cranny of the library. They know how to go through the book in the library and they can inquire and know anything.

"But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things." (1John 2:20).

The sons know all things not in their human brain. The human brain cannot contain that much knowledge. However, the sons know all things because they have access to this library where all of God's knowledge are available. God is omniscience, He knows all things. Therefore, all the knowledge of God is the knowledge of all things. The sons know all things by accessing this library, they can easily navigate the mind of God and draw out whatever knowledge they want.

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Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 12:46pm On May 31, 2020
Happy Sunday brethren
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 4:19pm On May 31, 2020
LIBRARY ANALOGY OF THE REALM OF THE PROPHETIC (3); ACCESSING THE REALM

This post belongs to a series, and to understand what the series is about you should read the first post of this series. There are two ways one could access the realm of the prophetic. It is either he consciously decide to access this realm or he is pulled by the Spirit into this realm. Either way, the prophetic realm can only be accessed by the Spirit. To consciously access it by yourself you need discipline, patience, faith, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.

But in certain situations those things are not available. Faith comes by knowledge and when the people are ignorant how can they have faith. So when all these things are not available and God desperately wants to bring us into the realm of the prophetic and show us things, then he would send the Holy Spirit to pull us into that realm. This pulling can happen in varying degrees based on how desperate the message it. Sometimes the Holy Spirit pulls us and we do not even know. But there are special times he pulls so hard that it is impossible to miss.

When one has been chosen by God into the ministry of the Prophet, such a person would be grace with such pulling. Whether he wants to or not he would experience the realm of the prophetic. The Bible speaks of the gift of prophecy. This is a gift where you are grace with this pulling of the Spirit into the prophetic realm. But the goal of every gift of the Spirit is to push you to grow in that dimension of Christ. In the previous post I mentioned that the prophetic is a dimension of Christ and as sons of God we ought to grow into maturity in all the dimensions of God.

When you have a prophetic gift that causes you to experience the realm of the prophetic, soon you will develop an appetite for this experience. Appetite leads to hunger and hunger leads to pursuit. Pursuit leads to growing into maturity in the prophetic. There is a spiritual law; if you desire something of God earnestly you will have it.

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled." (Matt 5:6).
"When you come looking for me, you’ll find me. Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else," (Jer 29:13).
"So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him." (Matt 7:11).

As he grows deeply hungry and pursuing it with all of his heart, he would grow and get to a point where he can enter into the prophetic at will. First it started with the Spirit pulling him into the prophetic once in a while. Then the person begins to want more, and more. At some seasons in his life he doesn't experience anything at all, and this causes his hunger to grow deeply. He becomes like a lion that has been starved, and brought to a point where he has nothing to lose, "it's either I get this or I die, I have tasted it in the past, and I cannot continue to live without it". Yes that is what the Spirit wants, to bring you to this very point. It is at this point of hunger that all his antenna super sharp, ready to pick anything. He pays careful attention, asking questions, learning, pressing hard in the place of prayer, and just like that he grows.

It is this pressing that would cause him to grow into maturity in the prophetic. No, it is not the gift or his calling that cause him to grow, it is the pressing. There are many people that have this calling yet they do not grow in the prophetic. If you rely on the gift alone you will not grow. The gift is aimed at giving you an hunger to pursue maturity in the prophetic. It is this pursuit that would bring you into maturity. This means that, with or without the gift and calling, as long as you desire and pursue the prophetic, you will grow into full maturity in it.

"Now eagerly desire the greater gifts. And yet I will show you the most excellent way." (1Cor 12:31).

"Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy." (1Cor 14:1).

It is all yours if only you desire and pursue it. The prophetic is a dimension of God, and God has opened up His fullness for us, asking us to come in and explore. All the fullness of God is accessible to us by faith in Christ Jesus. So if you believe that you can access the realm of the prophetic you will access it. There are exercises that would help in accessing the prophetic and becoming acquainted to it. These exercises is what I teach in my course; Oneness With God.

Once you start doing these exercises consistently, in two weeks or so you will begin to operate in the prophetic. It is not difficult if you are taught these things. What we lack in the body of Christ is correct teaching and training. The fullness of God is all ours, we only need to learn how to access it. The more you access the realm of the prophetic, the more easier it becomes for you. The first time it may take you 3 days of pressing for 3 hours. But later you will be entering it every day as you press for 3 hours. Before you know it in just an hour of pressing you will be entering into that realm. Then later you become so one (united) with this realm that it feels like a part of you. Entering it become as simple as raising up your hands.

If you are someone who started out consciously pressing without the gift of the Spirit, and you continue to grow in the prophetic you will come to a place where you begin to experience that pulling that gifted people experience. Yes, even without trying you will find yourself being pulled into that realm. When you become one with that realm you will feel so pulled to it, and you will be able to flow smoothly with the prophetic.

I am writing this to give you hope and faith that this thing is yours, you can have it all. Just believe, be disciplined enough to press consistently, and be very patient in your pressing. It is a step by step growth, and if you desire it you will become very mature in the prophetic. You will not be able to recognize yourself anymore, for you will grow so powerfully that it would transform you completely.

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Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 1:33pm On Jun 07, 2020
Happy Sunday beloved of God
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 3:49pm On Jun 07, 2020
LIBRARY ANALOGY OF THE REALM OF THE PROPHETIC (4); AWAKENING

This post belongs to a series, and to understand what the series is about you should read the first post of this series. So there are stages to the prophetic. And I can use that library analog to demonstrate it.

There is the stage of becoming awakened to this library. At this stage you could fill God's mind and you can feel all the knowledge in his mind. Here you now know you know all things, not just by simple faith but because you are awakened to the reality.

Then there is a stage where you are awakened to the books in the library. Here you do not just feel all knowledge in God’s mind but you could feel the knowledge that God has concerning certain things. You get the knowledge of God but it is not specific. It is like looking at a book title and having an idea what the book is about, but you don't know the details of what is inside. From the book title and book cover page you can tell to a degree what is in the book, but you can't give details till you open the pages and read.

This is a whole new reality to you, a realm in the spirit, a realm in God—the realm of God's mind. So it takes time to become open to it and be able to interact with it. When a baby is born into this physical reality his vision/sight is not clear and focus like we adult. Same thing happens when you are newly born into the realm of God's mind. Your sight is not clear enough, you can see the library, and you can see the book, but you can't read the contents. The book title is written in very bold letters, so you can easily read it, but your eyes is not developed enough to read the small letters of its contents.

Then there is the stage of opening the book and being able to read the table of contents and chapters title. In most books, the table of contents and the title of each chapter is written in bold letters. So it is easy to read, for those who's eyes are still developing. With the knowledge of the book title and the title of each chapter, you can give much information on what the book is about. Yet you won't be able to give specific details.

However, as you press to read the book contents you will start having flashes of greater details. Little by little you spiritual eyes is fully forming. And soon you get to the point of fully formed spiritual eyes where you can look into anything and give complete details. You will be getting such detailed information like phone numbers, addresses, names, account numbers, precise weight or height, and even time (down to the seconds). In fact, you can give details about anything. This is the place of full maturity and it is not meant only for the specially gifted prophets. It is meant for all those who are sons. As we move on in this series I would explain the difference between being just a mature son in this realm and being a prophet in this realm.
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 12:06pm On Jun 12, 2020
A complex system
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Acehart: 12:20pm On Jun 12, 2020
What’s the name of the church you attend, whether as pastor or member?
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 1:01pm On Jun 12, 2020
Acehart:
What’s the name of the church you attend, whether as pastor or member?
Christ only has one body, and I belong to Christ as well as all those who are his.
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Acehart: 1:45pm On Jun 12, 2020
Hiswordxray:

Christ only has one body, and I belong to Christ as well as all those who are his.

I know you are in the body of Christ. I just want to know where you meet with fellow Christians on Sundays as a pastor or member of a church.
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 2:11pm On Jun 12, 2020
Acehart:


I know you are in the body of Christ. I just want to know where you meet with fellow Christians on Sundays as a pastor or member of a church.
I meet with the body of Christ in Lagos. It has no name, no denomination, no G.O

Just brothers and sisters who have pledge their allegiance to Christ and Christ alone.

You can read this post to understand better:
https://www.nairaland.com/5650436/ecclesia-vs-church-system-better
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Acehart: 7:00pm On Jun 12, 2020
Hiswordxray:

I meet with the body of Christ in Lagos. It has no name, no denomination, no G.O

Just brothers and sisters who have pledge their allegiance to Christ and Christ alone.

You can read this post to understand better:
https://www.nairaland.com/5650436/ecclesia-vs-church-system-better

So you are Lone Ranger, No fellowship except with yourself? We see that you are leading people into the “prophetic“ - this means you have a church and you are the pastor.
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 8:21pm On Jun 12, 2020
Acehart:


So you are Lone Ranger, No fellowship except with yourself? We see that you are leading people into the “prophetic“ - this means you have a church and you are the pastor.
And where did you get the conclusion that I am a Lone Ranger?
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Acehart: 8:24pm On Jun 12, 2020
Hiswordxray:

And where did you get the conclusion that I am a Lone Ranger?

Please see the question mark.
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 8:25pm On Jun 12, 2020
Acehart:


So you are Lone Ranger, No fellowship except with yourself? We see that you are leading people into the “prophetic“ - this means you have a church and you are the pastor.
I don't understand why Christians brain have been condition to think church. It is difficult to imagine anything outside of church. Well, breaking news, there are a lot of things existing outside church. They are independent teaching ministries, there are equipping centers, there are established schools of the spirit, there are prophetic schools, there are ecclesia system, in fact there are many, and in the future there will be many more. So come out of your cave, there is a whole new world out there.
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Hiswordxray(m): 8:28pm On Jun 12, 2020
Acehart:


Please see the question mark.
Well, the question makes no sense. Because I had just said I fellowship with the body of Christ in Lagos. I even said this gathering it is made up of believers who pledge their allegiance to Christ.
Re: Growing In The Prophetic As A Normal Christian by Acehart: 8:30pm On Jun 12, 2020
Hiswordxray:

Well, the question makes no sense. Because I had just said I fellowship with the body of Christ in Lagos. I even said this gathering it is made up of believers who pledge their allegiance to Christ.

Okay

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