The prophet's handbook

What Exactly Is Prophecy? How many times have you heard that question? The majority of the time, the answer is simply the word of the Lord. While that is true, it seems to come short of the answer most people look to receive. They want an explanation that fosters their understanding of the medium of prophecy so they can properly handle the prophetic words they get. For those people, a somewhat more intricate response is needed. When New Creation faith and godly reason mix, the result is spiritual intelligence in the supernatural ways and wisdom of God. Thus, prophecy is the Lord’s word performed, achieved, and mobilized in the spirit, soul, and body of its believers. As the invisible, eternal word of God is spoken in the natural world, it operates what He deposited in creation to perform or fulfill something He wants to be. Prophecy involves the past, present, and future interchangeably. It takes spiritual faculties to hear, see, dream, and otherwise receive it from Creator God’s spiritual creation. A special attunement of the normal human faculties is needed for prophetic types to receive their messages. To affirm that what one receives from the spirit realm is prophetic and not merely psychic takes a very highly constructed spiritual apparatus. It takes the uniqueness of the prophet’s spirit upgraded by the new birth. Review the section on the seventh sense to better understand this. Prophecy is normally spontaneous and can be predictive, revelatory, didactic, literary, or oracular. That means the prophetic can manifest itself through foretelling, forthtelling, teaching, writings, or verbal utterances under the inspiration of the Spirit of God. As a medium, prophecy’s purpose is to reveal the invisible mind and dispense the material provisions of God to His visible world. As a tool, it is the vehicle by which the Lord enables humans to access His invisible form, services, wisdom, and products. Once someone has gained access to heaven’s hidden treasuries, prayer and belief in prophetic utterances shape and conform his request to transform them into divine purpose. Sustained, these ultimately attract and adorn the petition’s natural physique and appearance in our world so that it takes on the substance and appearance of prophecy fulfilled. Here is what Paul meant by his counsel to Timothy in 1:18 and 1:14. It is what happened when Christ cursed the fig tree, when Elisha summoned a child for the Shunammite woman, and when Jesus multiplied the fishes and the loaves. Based on His covenant and comprehension of His Father’s ways, they were already in existence, awaiting