The prophet's handbook

being experienced in conceiving what the Lord wants to deposit in them. Prophets’ prayer companies immediately transform their environments into a battlefield, a revelation hub, a military camp, and a worship and praise center. Throughout the prayer, the group travels through all these stages to make happen on earth what the Lord has shown them to be His will in heaven. Before tackling other issues, responsible prophets come to God to be healed, cleansed, empowered, and impregnated. They are conditioned to conceive His thoughts, commune with His Word, and be further transformed into His image and likeness. Prophets not only seek this from their prayer times; they expect and insist that the Lord grants them this fruit as a result of it. When the prayer ends, the room is changed to a sanctuary. The glory is present and the word of the Lord flows abundantly. It is sad that the least communal prayer group in the body of Christ tends to be the leaders, prophets, and apostles, most importantly. I have witnessed how pastors and church leaders rise to fame and begin to see prayer as beneath them. They know how to reach God, but they assign special groups to do it for them. Unless there is a crisis, far too many in leadership of churches of the Lord Jesus replace valuable prayer time with works while still relying on the Lord’s Spirit to support them in their ventures. Biblical prophetic prayer models, Samuel, Moses, David, Daniel, Job, and Abraham, to name a few, would never cast off this privileged duty. What they all shared was their conviction for intercession. Many times active prophetic prayer can halt or derail an attack of the enemy meant to overthrow God’s plans and purposes. When prophets enter active prayer, visions flood their minds. The Lord’s thoughts stream at them at accelerated rates as their spirits overwhelm their natural selves. At this time, the Lord’s broadest and most finite matters are divulged and the sod meeting discussed earlier begins. The messengers hear God’s plan, understand the strategy, and are enlightened on the objects of their next prophetic assignment. From all this, you can see how important prophets’ prayer lives are to their accuracy and effectiveness. Another unique feature of prophetic prayer groups is recognizing that fault and failure for life’s crises lie with humans and not with the Lord. Prophets differ from other groups because they never assign blame to the Lord or wrangle His Word to excuse human behavior or rationalize their retaliation against God for their suffering. Rather, prophets are aware that problems of sin reside with humans. Therefore they include in their intercessory sessions vicarious repentance for the sins of the people of the lands they pray for and then proceed