The prophet's handbook

and perspectives with God’s. It unites his or her supernatural self with the supernatural forces assigned to the work on earth. Prayer opens the heavens, removes the darkness, and sheds God’s light on the matters prophets handle. A shabby prayer life eventually renders prophets feeble in their ministries and hinders the execution of their prophetic duties. Another reason prayer is so vital to this mantle has to do with the weighty intercessory obligation of the messenger. The prophet’s primary charge, if you recall, is to stand in the gap and make up the hedge for God’s people on earth. This responsibility is where Israel’s prophets failed in Ezekiel 13:5. But what is it for the prophet to pray? According to the Bible, there is no more effective prayer group than that of prophets and apostles, collectively and respectively. I used to wonder about this until I had the opportunity to observe and experience the difference. When prophets pray with others, they may have a productive prayer time. However, when they pray with their peers of like spirit, the results are explosive. Their respective mantles collaborate, and each one’s anointing and power are magnified a thousandfold. When this group assembles, the time it takes to transcend the world and flesh is milliseconds in comparison to other prayer groups. Prophets do not need the long spiritual prologues, extensive meditation, or empty praise-fillers that are normally required by others before they transition from the human to the heavenly. In an instant, prophets’ seasoned spirits leap onto God’s plane, ready to do business as He requires. Prophets further understand what to expect from their prayer vigils and approach them with a confident determination to plow through everything in their way. With other prayer groups it is different. Their spiritual immaturity or weakness can lag behind in the spirit as they are unskilled or unable to shake off the flesh that holds down their spiritual power. Many believers frequently lack the fortitude to push in the spirit and are easily driven back to carnality by any hint of demonic resistance or fatigue. Prophetic prayer groups, on the other hand, are able to confront and conquer the spiritual bullies the devil assigns to their gatherings. They enter prayer with a sense of assignment, duty, and invincibility. Prophets are not quickly or easily cowered in prayer, and over time, they resolve to outgrow the weaknesses that make them vulnerable to such tactics in the future. Once on God’s plane, prophets are attuned to His most intimate thoughts,