The prophet's handbook

study reveals an inherent potency in these methods that, when compared to earthly blessings, makes many carnal or humanist tactics impotent in contrast. Thus, local church prophets should, above all, endeavor to attend prayer sessions held by the church. How else can revelations imparted to prayer groups be balanced and validated by them as credible witnesses? Also, in no way besides actual participation in the congregation’s prayer vigils can church prophets effectively and intelligently battle darkness for the flock. This ceaseless endeavor is incumbent upon them because prophets’ powerful spirits easily release blessings and victories to the church that may otherwise be held up by demons. Their dynamic presence is respected by them on account of the prophets’ numerous clashes with these powers during their training years. As a recruit, the well-trained prophet successfully learns how to guard and keep the territory God gives to a particular church body. The church prophet who does not participate regularly in a congregation’s corporate prayer life is a guard disconnected with his or her purpose for being on the wall, and unenlightened on the mien of prophetic ministry. Many prophets object to this duty because they feel themselves and their anointing to be too potent for the lay member. They prefer to get their intelligence on the congregation strictly from the Holy Spirit. While there is much to be said for this approach, it is not enough to shore up the wobbly faith of struggling leaders and members, and it does little to affirm the prophets’ interests and concerns for their hopes, goals, or predicaments. Church prophets should regularly participate in, and spiritually see to, the officiations of church sacraments and special ceremonies, such as weddings, christenings, and baptisms. In this capacity, church prophets should stand by with a ready word from the Lord on the celebrated event. Likewise, their presence immediately preserves the protocols, practices, and executions of the services and keeps God’s aims at the heart of it. As supernatural agents of the Godhead in attendance, church prophets ward off ungodliness, error, abuse, and neglect when they are competently trained. General Church Prophet Tasks Churches and their leadership should be well versed on how and where to employ their church prophets. For instance, consider the christening of babies. All babies born into the world have a divine purpose, which can be revealed to the parents by God’s prophets. The church prophet’s role, then, is to divulge that purpose to the parents before negative world influences have a chance to subvert or inseminate the child’s destiny with its Christ-less alternative. Ideally, parents