How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

this way and let’s pray a blessing on him!” However, Peter was a true prophet, and instead of taking the magician’s money, Peter rebuked Simon and said, “Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money!” (Acts 8:20). Peter discerned the sorcerer was “poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity” (v. 23). While some may disagree with what I am going to say, when it comes to the area of personal prophecy, I cannot find in the Scriptures where any apostle or prophet had a ministry of continually giving individuals a word from the Lord . At times they received a word of wisdom or a word of knowledge (1 Cor. 12:7–10), but no believers stood in a long line to get a word ; instead they sat and heard the preaching of God’s Word and then allowed the Holy Spirit to confirm that word through signs, wonders, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit (Heb. 2:4). I once had a worker who was constantly saying, “The Lord told me this, and He told me that.” The problem arose when little of what she said came to pass! I told my wife, “This girl seems to receive more words from God than the prophets of the Bible received.” Most of the personal prophetic utterances in the New Testament were words of warning —n o t blessings or guarantees of prosperity . (See Acts 11:28; 21:10–11.) In fact, in the Book of Acts, the disciples in Jerusalem were selling their property and dividing the money among other believers. The main reason was that Christ had already predicted that Jerusalem would be destroyed within one generation. If the city was doomed, then why continue living there? These followers