The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

1 Kings 17:1 Elijah understood that the power resident in his spoken word would manifest itself in performing what he commanded. In Jeremiah 28:7–11, the prophet demonstrated how he knew word of the Lord from his mouth was about to come to pass. Jeremiah reminded them that it was at the word of earlier prophets that the current events that befell and would befall them happened. Hosea 6:5, another example, is where the Lord said that He hewed His people by the words of His prophets who declared His judgments. Luke 24:44 has our Savior reminding His followers that the prophets foretold what they had just witnessed and experienced with Him and therefore their words had to be fulfilled, something He did consistently. Acts 15:15 adds that the emerging events of the New Testament church were in complete agreement with the prophets’ words; things were manifesting as prophesied. In 2 Peter 3:2 it adds that it is according to the words of God’s holy prophets that His people are to expect fulfillment of His words. Deuteronomy 18:22 conveys that prophets’ words are to manifest themselves. First Kings 18 gives a potent example in Elijah’s contest with Jezebel’s prophets that makes our point. Without the grisly fanfare pagan prophets are compelled to, Elijah treats God as if He is present, hearing, seeing, not an indifferent deity far off but a covenant God that granted him powerful privileges. That was what Elijah invoked as he called on his God to answer by fire. That answer was based upon Elijah’s word as God’s agent in Kings 18:24. In 2 Kings 14:25, the Lord restores a territory of Israel according to the word of His prophet Jonah, the son of Amittai. Read 2 Chronicles 36:21 and Ezra 1:1 where both underscore how the events occurring in their times were the result of the prophet Jeremiah’s words. The prophets of God operate from the vantage point that nothing they will do or are licensed to perform is foreign to God. As His functionaries they accept that what they possess, the power they wield, is the result of God’s official empowerment, serving merely as their professional ministry power tools. Prophets see their corpus of gifts and powers as implements with which they administrate God’s will, manage His resources, and dispense His provisions in the earth. That is the pulse of their prophesying and why they expect it to manifest. 820. Manifesting Prophetics—This term refers to the entire operation of the prophetic as it involves maneuvering and provoking the will of the Lord and its various forms onto the world by the structure and tenor of their words. Recognizing God’s foreknowledge of sin and its devastation in the lives of those born on the earth, the prophet understands that the work of the mantle is to