The prophet's handbook

prophet above exercising the gift of prophecy at your discretion. You will find in response to this action that the Lord will no longer interact with you in your prophetics as before. He may even seem to withdraw from you for a while as though what you two once shared has become insignificant or obsolete. Of course, that is not true. What the Lord is doing is preparing you to serve as a professional nabi—a prophet accountable to a company and not just to the Lord directly. Therefore, expect Him to now direct you to those He has put in charge of your ministry‘s prophetic service. These would be the head of your organization and your prophetic superintendent. Initially, this may disturb you, but if you study Scripture you will remember that this is routinely how God handles and works through His prophets. Once He has established a viable organization through which to work, He concentrates His instructions to the head of a prophetic company (such as Samuel, Nathan, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Daniel). The head of the organization, in this case the company superintendent, has authority to delegate various tasks and details connected with the Lord’s instructions to the most capable prophet in the company. The reason for this is that God works through His offices and the authority figures that have been installed to execute them. Most of the church has lost sight of this factor of divine order over the years. Our Lord is the God of government, law, and order. Therefore, as much as possible, He will initiate His kingdom actions with the heads of whatever legitimate institutions He has at His disposal. Here is where you will have to shift your mentality from that of an independent prophet’s mind-set to an organizational mind-set. Your training and probationary period are to help you do just that. In addition, this handbook was designed be used throughout your development and thereafter to facilitate your adjustment to your new prophetic life. The Prophet’s Office and the Prophetic Company The prophet’s office, as stated earlier, predates all time and history, although is has existed for eons in God’s service. Despite what you may have come to believe from popular religious doctrine, the mantle of the prophet is to serve the Lord above His people. That is the reason one of its definitions is that of a deity’s spokesperson. If God does not speak, you as His mouthpiece have nothing to say in His name. As we established in earlier discussions, the genuine prophet’s office does more than prophesy, in particular; it does more than predict the future. The prophets of old performed a myriad of divine, secular, sacred, and