OVERCOMING PROPHETIC RESISTANCE: Have you heard someone say: "I do not need someone to prophesy to me. God can speak to me through His Word and I can hear God for myself." Here is the answer: While it is true that God can speak to every saint through His Word and that He can also speak directly to us through the Holy Spirit (1 John 2:27), yet the active functioning of the prophets today speaking "a word from the Lord" in personal prophecy, is an added dimension of communication, to enable God to fully speak to His people. A prophet is not a ministry. A prophet is a person (Ephesians 4:11). Just like a pastor, it is not a ministry. A pastor is a person. Pastors carry pastoral ministry, functions and operations. Prophets in the same manner, carry prophetic ministries, functions and operations. No individual member of the Church, the Body of Christ, can hear enough from God for himself, both in quantity and quality of hearing, to fully walk the path of God`s perfect will and to achieve his fullest potential in Christ. In Acts 9 and Acts 26 (New Testament), we are told the story of the dramatic conversion of Saul, the persecutor of the church. Saul has a supernatural encounter with the risen Christ on his way to Damascus. On his way to Damascus, a light from heaven flashed around him. A voice spoke to him in Aramaic identified as that of the Lord Jesus Christ. Spiritually, the encounter resulted to Saul surrendering his life to Jesus Christ and yet physically, it blinded him. He got blinded for three days after that encounter. He was led by the hand into Damascus (that`s what we do to blind people). After three days, God spoke to another disciple in a vision and instructed him to go to Saul of Tarsus at a certain place and to speak the word of the Lord over him. The man was Ananias. As a result of Ananias receptivity and obedience to the vision, Saul received his sight back, he was filled with the Holy Spirit, and was released into ministry (Acts 9:20). What can we learn from this incident? Even if we have a direct audible, supernatural voice of God speaking directly to us from heaven, yet God will not tell us everything that we need to know! There is a dimension of God`s character that He withheld some informations and revelations but given to other believers, even though we can hear his voice. No one person got it all! Saul just received enough information at that time, just enough, to surrender his life to Christ. The other part of revelation on how he can restore his sight back and received the Holy Spirit was revealed to Ananias (Acts 9:17-19). If Paul was resistant to the prophetic ministry of Ananias, he will remain blind. Some will remain barren, others will remain in their cancer. If Ananias resisted the voice of God in the vision because he will argue that he is not prophetic (dreams and visions are under the prophetic ministry), he will not be the vessel that Jesus Christ will use in order for the blind to see. How many of you here would like to have an experience of blind seeing when you pray? All! What if it will require you to obey a vision or received it through a prophetic minister? Will you obey God? Or are you going to resist God and tell the Lord that our pastor does not believe in these things, or our church is indifferent towards prophetic ministry, or our denomination does not believe in prophets. What is your excuse? Come November 19-23rd, I will be in Singapore for THE HEALING GLORY CONFERENCE. I will teach in one of the sessions about The Prophetic Anointing. Be there! Let me know if you are interested in coming. We will send the necessary information for you to be accommodated. Glory to God! The video below is a message taught during The Intercessors Regional Summit (TIRS) held in Regatta Residence Hotel in Iloilo City, Philippines.
Posted on: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 08:18:49 +0000
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