The prophet's handbook

their immaturity and instability in the after-prayer visions and words they received. I remember remarking about one such seer that he received only negative words and visions from the Lord. It did not matter who the subject was; the word and revelations he received were consistently destructive. This seer’s naturally negative personality had yet to be purged and so he hoped that anything he viewed was also wrong. Immaturity motivated this prophet to ask the Lord to shut down or destroy the work. It is not uncommon for people who have been abused or dominated by overbearing authority figures to see destruction and death as the only resolution of insurmountable problems. Therefore, when they come to God, they are immediately enraptured with His power to destroy all wrong and annihilate wrongdoers. Years of frustration and futility have bred in them the need for God to avenge them, even if they were permitted to witness a shortfall in another. These prophets’ early years are fraught with the four Ds of damnation: doom, death, disease, and destruction. The redemptive and nurturing elements of the office come later. It takes a while for new prophets to see this as apparent misuse of their supernatural faculties and outright imposition of their personal criticism on the Spirit of God. Seasoned prophetic servants, on the other hand, are on guard for potential harm and danger lurking to invade their flocks. Mature prophets recognize them as man-made tools of enlightenment, such as mysticism, occultism, secularism, humanism, and that most insidious seducer, tradition. Veteran prophets of the church recognize the signs and symptoms of adversarial invaders and combat them successfully while doing their best to keep the work intact and moving forward in God. They do not see demonic presence or infiltration as grounds for the destruction of the work as the novice prophet does. Education and training are how prophets avoid this, and so your church prophets must be learned in these and other prophetic subjects to expose them to the tricks the devil uses to get them to prophesy his will on their assigned churches. Training and education will equip them to know these groups by their death to the church campaign. Any injured prophet can fall into this trap. Undeveloped wounded prophets make ready tools, or weapons, in the devil’s arsenal. He only needs to study them briefly to note the doom and gloom that surround them. These prophets are unwilling for the Lord to forgive and redeem His works because they are full of unforgiveness. Such prophets remind you of Jonah the prophet in his disappointment at Nineveh’s forgiveness by God. When God wanted to forgive and spare the land, the prophet became angry and pouted because he wanted God’s judgment to fall on it. To drive home the