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To each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift. Do not grade the work of the Holy Spirit.
Major and minor prophets were named for the length of their books, not for how much they could see. Prophecy today builds up, comforts and is tested. It runs along a spectrum: the simple gift, prophesying by faith as Eli did over Hannah, and the office of the prophet. Not everyone has to prophesy; Romans 12 also needs people who serve, teach, give, lead and show mercy.
God raises prophets from your midst, and they carry your burden. Jonah spoke gladly for Israel and ran from Nineveh. In Nazareth they saw only the carpenter's son, and He could do no mighty work there. Chapters twenty-five and twenty-six of The Prophetic Mandate.
Scripture: Ephesians 4:7; Amos 7:14-15; Numbers 11:29; 1 Corinthians 14:3, 29; Acts 11:27-30; Romans 12:4-8; 1 Samuel 1:17-20; Deuteronomy 18:15; 1 Samuel 3:19-20; Jonah 1:1-3; 2 Kings 14:25; Mark 6:3-5; 2 Kings 5:8
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Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies. Test everything, and hold fast what is good.
Paul keeps every gift inside the circumference of love. First Corinthians 14 opens with "pursue love," straight after the chapter that sets tongues, knowledge and mountain-moving faith against it. Prophecy is for others: edification, exhortation and comfort. Simon of Samaria was called the great power of God and still tried to buy the Spirit.
The king's officer who scoffed at Elisha's word saw cheap flour in Samaria's gate with his own eyes, and did not eat. You can despise prophesying by refusing to receive it, or by never desiring it. Chapters twenty-one and twenty-two of The Prophetic Mandate.
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:19-21; 1 Corinthians 13; 1 Corinthians 14:1-3; Acts 8:9-21; 2 Kings 7:1-2, 17-20; 2 Chronicles 36:15-16
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Sometimes a word is given, it does not come to pass, and the one who gave it is still a genuine servant of God.
God told Jeremiah that if a nation He has warned turns from its evil, He will relent of the disaster, and if a nation He promised to build up turns to evil, He will reconsider the good. Isaiah told Hezekiah to set his house in order. Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed, and before Isaiah had left the middle court, God sent him back: I have heard your prayer, I will heal you.
Elisha's word over Moab, Micah's word against Jerusalem, Agabus with Paul's belt, and the old prophet of Bethel who lied in the name of the Lord all teach the same thing: handle a prophecy with prayer, humility and discernment. Chapters twenty and twenty-one of The Prophetic Mandate.
Scripture: Jeremiah 18:7-10; Ezekiel 37:7; Isaiah 55:10-11; 2 Kings 20:1-5; 2 Kings 3:16-27; Jeremiah 26:18-19; Acts 21:10-13; Daniel 9:2-3; 1 Timothy 1:18; 1 Kings 13
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There is one God and one mediator between God and men. The office is taken.
The error is not in the idea of a go-between but in its extremism, when someone stands so far between you and God that you stop reaching for Him yourself. Saul’s middleman was no con artist; Samuel was God’s own choice, and Saul still never learned to pray. Twice he called Him “the Lord your God.” When he sinned, he asked the prophet to pardon him. David fasted seven days, Paul asked three times, Elijah looked seven times. Saul prayed once, heard nothing, and went to a medium.
“Do not substitute the silence of God with the verbosity of men.” The eighth message in The Prophetic Mandate series is not against ministers. It is against a dependence that cannot find God without someone in the way.
Scripture: 1 Timothy 2:5-6; Ephesians 2:18; 1 Samuel 9-10; 1 Samuel 15:22-30; 1 Samuel 28:6-7
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Jesus said false prophets come in sheep’s clothing. Not another breed of sheep. Wolves, and wolves eat sheep.
Where people want the remarkable badly enough, someone will always arrive to supply it. The test Jesus gave was fruit, not gift, and the people He sends away in Matthew 7 are people who prophesied in His name. Ahab’s four hundred prophets agreed to a man, and Zedekiah made horns of iron to prove it. Micaiah saw a lying spirit volunteer to speak through them all. They heard something; it was not God.
Jehoshaphat could not settle, and asked whether there was still a prophet of the Lord. The seventh message in The Prophetic Mandate series asks the listener to learn the anointing that abides within, and not to reject knowledge.
Scripture: Matthew 7:15-23; 2 Corinthians 11:12-14; 1 Kings 22:6-23; 1 John 2:27; Hosea 4:6
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Samson tore a young lion apart with his bare hands in the vineyards of Timnah. He could beat the lion. He could not master his own temper.
Anger itself is not the sin. Jesus looked around in anger at hard hearts and then healed the man’s hand. But anger has a time limit, and God warned Cain while he was still only angry. Absalom had real cause over Tamar, lay with his anger for two years, had Amnon killed, and spent three more in exile. Simeon and Levi had cause too, and left a city of widows and orphans.
However justified it feels, there was always a choice. The first part of Lucifer’s Little Foxes, from the book of the same name, asks the listener to bring real hurt to God before the sun goes down on it.
Scripture: Song of Solomon 2:15; Judges 14:5-6; Ephesians 4:26; Mark 3:5; Genesis 4:6-7; Genesis 49:5
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