The Prophetic Flow

Seeking a Rhema

your desires, because your heart is open to receive the desires of God rather than your own. If you are in ministry, one of the primary ways God will lead you is by the desires of your heart. For instance, if you have a teaching ministry, God will give you the desire to teach. Jeremiah had a prophetic ministry. He was called to give the word of the Lord and when he tried to suppress it, the desire to prophesy became like fire shut up in his bones. You need to judge your own heart. If it is found to be pure and you are sincere, you need to follow the desires of your heart because God will lead you by dropping things in your spirit (heart). I believe it is the same way in getting a Rhema from God; as long as you are pure and your heart is right, you don't need to fear deception. God will always answer those who are pure in heart. The Bible says, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." God will give you revelation and will show you things to come. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith. Romans 12:6 From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling. I Timothy 1:6 To my surprise, in one service nearly every person in the building received a prophetic word from the Lord even though there wasn't any real supernatural unction to prophesy. I simply stirred up the gift of God that was in me. I know I can lay hands upon people and prophesy to them in faith. I know how that gift operates, I can flow in it. If everyone in that building needed to hear from God, I had the ability to stir up the gifts of God and to prophesy out of my gift to them. A few years ago I, too, probably would have discouraged that type of prophesying. I very likely would have said, "If there

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