The prophet's handbook

Chapter 14 Preparing the Prophet to Serve

This chapter explains how to prepare the prophet to serve. It covers:

Shaping the prophet for service God’s ways and means of prophetic preparation Shaping the Minister for Service

Prophets, like all other ministers, are a set-aside group of servants dedicated to God. Their set-aside, or consecrated, status is achieved by God on a two-tiered arrangement. First, the position itself is extracted from the masses of God’s societies and orders and placed in a separate vocational department category. Afterward, the people are actually selected, and upon being designated to fill this or that office, are endowed accordingly. Intrinsic signals are instilled in prophets to eventually summon them to the Lord’s service, and subsequently to His chosen field of ministry for them. The entire composition of the minister for this purpose is geared toward the end that he or she hears, responds to, and obeys God’s ordained mission in life. As we have learned earlier, native abilities are how God does this. Having groomed a future prophet over the specified number of years that God deemed it would take for the messenger to get ready, He activates the signals that translates into the call to ministry. He then moves into His preparatory stage and the task of training the servant to begin working. At least six means are used by God to bring a minister into His service. These methods are employed by the Lord secretly and silently throughout the anointed’s life until he or she is brought to the stage of presentation. This is the point where the person is ready to be extricated from the masses and delivered to God for ministry. Various things start to occur to lead a potential minister to separation and consecration. Once initiated, it involves numerous jolting breaches in a person’s life that can be distressing and disturbing. In anticipation of these, upsets are likely to have been felt early in life. Tragedies, conflicts, and hostility many times greet God’s future servant at young ages. Turbulence and crises can characterize the youth’s experience. Instability and inconsistency may