The prophet's handbook

motivation for my being in someone’s life is jeopardized or compromised. I not only distance myself when familiarity begins to border on contempt, but I also do so for the benefit of the person greatly in need of God’s prophetics. It is quite easy for prophets to get to the place where they commune with someone so much that the person forgets who the prophet is meant to be in his or her life. At these times, joint prayer sessions yield little objectivity as the prophet begins to sit on important information received from God. Intimate acquaintances start to question the veracity of the words prophets receive because of perceiving the messenger as being too close to the situation. On the other hand, the prophet worries about threatening the friendship if he gives his pastor-friend a word he or she will not like. As the days go by, the prophet grows more timid by the friendship, fearing pastoral retaliation. The pastor and the church’s spiritual covering begin to disintegrate. Wisdom dictates under these circumstances that the problem be brought out into the open and discussed frankly. If the suspicions of the prophet are true and his or her usefulness to the pastor is finished, good decisions should be made as the two accept that the prophet’s time with the ministry is up. Although this can surely prove painful, it is nonetheless quite prudent. As the severing process gets underway, responsible plans should be made to make the transition from the old to the new prophet as smooth as possible. Even with this likelihood, which need not be viewed with negativity, God still would like to provide His Davids of today with the same benefit as their ancient predecessor by installing like prophets in all His churches. Truly the church needs a solid, competent, masterful nabiim institution operating in Christ’s integrity. The Lord yearns to give His pastors the advantage they need over darkness by assigning a potent spiritual watch-force to guard and defend His churches from their onslaughts. As operatives of the divine kingdom of the Most High, prophets’ spiritual authority in the church’s realm should easily supersede that of the kingdom of darkness. Not restricted to the supernatural alone, the church prophets’ activities that effectively impact the spirit world can effortlessly overcome the edicts of human kingdoms as well, another value they bring to the church. According to Scripture, the prophets of God should profit those they serve, not merely themselves. A prophet’s mature presence in a land says that prosperity on all fronts should be at the church’s disposal over time. The Benefit of Voluntary Church Prophet Submission to the Church