📖1 Corinthians 12: 4-11
4 There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 There are differences of
ministries, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who
works all in all. 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: 8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.
📍PROPHECY IS A GIFT.
• The gifts are there for the taking.
• You don’t have to buy them.
• Jesus already purchased them for you
📍PROPHETIC IS LOVE.
• Prophetic is us experiencing the goodness of God and sharing it with others.
• And the core of prophetic is LOVE.
• Love is the DNA of it all.
• 1 Corinthians 14:1Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
• The more you fall in love with the Father, the more you’ll flow in gifts
📍PROPHETIC IS A CULTURE
• Prophetic is the way we function, the way we see, the way we communicate with people
• We need to realize that the prophetic is NOT just a gift of a language. It IS a culture. Every land/country has a culture. Heaven has a culture. Every king has a heart culture of what they speak out of. And the King of Kings has a heart culture. Its love. Prophetic is the heart of God.
• When we give a prophetic word we are to translate the heart behind it.
• People are being entrusted by the heart of God to speak on his behalf.
• Prophetic words = asking the Father what he thinks of his children and then relaying that information
📖14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.16 Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the
world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of
reconciliation.20Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through
us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.
📍Christs love compels us.
We have been given the ministry of reconciliation not counting men’s transgressions against them
📍FIND THE GOLD IN THE DIRT
• It requires no prophetic gift to see the sin in others – b/c we’re in a fallen nature – prophesy is exposing the light not pulling out the dark.
• We’re not called to accusatory – when we do that we’re partnering with the wrong kingdom. – You’re not proving you’re prophetic but proving God sees them. Kindness / Goodness / Love
• Prophetic is calling things as they should be, in Genesis 1:1-3, it states darkness hovered over the face of the earth, it took no gift to see the darkness, But God didn’t call out the darkness, God
said let there be light, he called things as they should be. Prophetic is to change perspective.
• Sometimes you’ll see the darkness but you speak to the light. Sometimes God will speak the secrets of others to you so you can speak into their lives. Secrets remain in the secret place unless otherwise advised by God
📍PROPHETIC
• A gift
• Love / Culture of love
• Strengthening others
• Encouragement
• Comfort
• Edification = confirmation, to build foundation
• Exhortation = call near, to make request, God reaching out to pull close
• Comfort = console, encourage, hope to relate nearness
📍PROPHECY OPENS THE HEAVENS
• One of the ways miracles are birthed is through prophecy. We thought that prophecy was just someone coming up an telling us something that is uplifting about ourselves or prophesying some information to us about the future. But there is a much greater manifestation of the prophetic flow.
• Prophetic benefits all. It’s joining with the Holy Spirit. It’s much more powerful than we think. When the prophetic flows it opens up the spirit realm for the glory of God to manifest itself in our midst. Supernatural occurrences will begin to happen in the spirit realm through prophetic utterances.
• When we release the word of the Lord it changes environments
📍WHO CAN PROPHESY??
•All – Every believer has been called by god to live in the prophetic. It’s the call of every believer. Acts 2 / 1 Corinthians 14 / Ephesians 4 speaks on equipping the saints
•All have privilege to hear God.
•He calls all b/c all are needed to edify the church.
•Deuteronomy 28:1 “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth.
•Listening to the voice of God is the activity for deeper relationship.
•John 10:4-5 states “my sheep know my voice
📖ACTS 2:17-18
Acts 2:17-18 17 ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. 18 And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; And they shall prophesy.
👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻We’re in serious times to be equipped. Acts 2:17-18 highlighted the gifts for end times.
📍OVERFLOW OF THE SPIRIT
•Prophetic is the natural overflow of a spirit filled life. It’s the overflow of the Holy Spirit.
•When we shut down spiritual gifts, you shut down key aspects of the Holy Spirit.
•Receiving gifts in other people is receiving God. Rejecting ministries is rejecting God.
•The prophetic was never intended to be the full console of God. The Bible says we see in part an know in part. God gives tastes of things – taste is to spur on hunger
📍ITS OK TO HAVE QUESTIONS
• Proverbs 25:2 says it’s the Glory of Kings to search out
• Prophetic words aren’t meant to be spoken perfectly.
• 1 Thessalonians 5: 20-21 states to test everything and hold on to what is good.
• 20 Do not despise prophecies. 21 Test all things; hold fast what is good.
• Weigh it out. Examine it. Hold on to what is good
📍COUNTERFEIT PROPHETIC ANOINTING
• The enemy is not a creator so if there is something he has taken and manipulated its b/c it is high value to Gods kingdom.
• Religious spirit and political spirit want to impart the gift of suspicion b/c that reinterprets the circumstances and it causes a spirit of offense to rise up that mirrors that prophetic anointing.
Its counterfeit prophetic anointing. You have the same burning that something needs to be done, something needs to be said, but not recognize that the origin of information is actually deception.
Whatever you misdiagnose you mistreat.
• You have to be alert to the spirit of offense.
• When you speak from yourself your offenses you’re not tapping into what HE says. And when you do that, it is a subtle way to move into self-promotion not Heavenly promotion
📖ISAIAH 59:21
21 “As for Me,” says the Lord, “this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” says the Lord, “from this time and forevermore.
👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻 This was the covenant from the LORD. And almost always when the spirit of the lord fell upon them, it came out in way of prophecy.
📍BODY OF CHRIST
• This was to the body of Christ.
• You are the sons. You are the daughters of prophets.
• Why is that important? Because of the covenant in Isaiah 59 was established that I will put my words in your mouth and in your descendants and in your descendants and so on.
• You have an inheritance.
• You’re not going to write a check if you know you don’t have the funds. You’re not going to draw from identity unless HE reveals to you who you are. When you read this you realize that you are an heir. Once you realize this your posture will change. Not out of arrogance but in confidence in your inheritance, who God called you to be. The sons and the daughters of prophets, you’re in line to carry the spirit of god and the words of the lord
📍STEPS TO HEAR FROM GOD
1. Quiet yourself Fix your eyes on Jesus
2. Tune into spontaneity – pictures, thoughts, verses
3. To grow in the spoken you have to grow in the written —- Keep a journal
4. Embrace you & Celebrate progress
5. Embrace learning
6. Prophecy over yourself
7. Activate your senses
