The prophet's handbook
prophetic monopolies, overly spiritual symbioses, or non-productive affinity groups that can render the revelatory and predictive functions of the company ineffective. What the Prophetic Company Does The prophetic company fulfills the duties and responsibilities of prophetic ministry as directed by a church’s senior leadership. The model it uses includes the one developed from the early church depicted for us in Scripture, with adjustments for modern applications included. All the functions of a prophet‘s mantle are beneficially employed as expressed in this handbook. The delegations and applications of the prophetic company’s supernatural faculties are concentrated on in this chapter. What Prophets Do for God’s Institutions Prophets are not just for the church. The apostle Paul made this plain in 1 Corinthians 14 when he discussed the nature, purposes, and functions of prophesying. He mentioned how the unbeliever or sinner can be positively affected by God’s medium of divine communications when entering a gathering of Christ’s members. Throughout the New Testament, the medium of prophecy is discussed, along with the entire complement of the Lord’s spiritual operations exercised by His church. So accurate is the conclusion that prophets belong in the stratum of earthly existence that it is substantiated by the dreadful trends of the modern world. The world has replaced God’s absent prophets with its own version of spiritual communicants. Devils and their agents now occupy the Creator’s spiritual and supernatural posts in society to answer its need to know tomorrow’s answers today. The church’s neglect of its duties to the Lord in this world has left sinners on their own to figure out how to reconnect with their spiritual roots. A natural rejection of the Lord’s truth and resentment of His church left them with only one recourse. It motivated them to turn to the darkness for their supernatural light. Today, we are seeing a resurgence of 1 Kings 12:26–13:5. God’s people are abandoning their true roots for the ways of the world. History is repeating itself. The reason is found in Lamentations 1:9, which says she did not consider her destiny. Prophets on the horizon in this dispensation face the same challenges, as satanic counterfeits try to convince the world that it no longer considers or desires its destiny in Christ Jesus. Psychics, clairvoyants, and other false facsimiles of the Lord’s supernatural
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