How Do You Know Youre a Prophet in the Bible

fifteen Signs you may have the Gift of Prophecy and 2 Warnings – Prophetic Series Part iv

This is role 4 of our prophetic serial.  In this mail service we will talk about the 15 Signs or Traits that you take the Gift of Prophecy.  If this is the first time you are seeing this series here are the first three:

The Gift of Prophecy

Prophetic Words, Sowing Seeds and Money

How do prophets hear from God?

If you are new to the gift of prophecy and you lot are not sure if you take the souvenir here are some characteristics of the prophetic gift:

1. Yous desire deep intimacy with God. You have a deep prayer life.
2. You hear God speak to you in many of the ways in which He speaks to the
   

   prophets

3. Always seeking to hear the Lord on situations.  Prophets always looks for what God has to say
4. You have premonitions or received information from the Lord on time to come events that you've seen come to pass.
5. If you are a Seer, y'all will meet things in the spirit that others cannot come across.  You may even believe it was your imagination at first.
6. Y'all are keenly aware that your words have authority and what you speak really happens.  Sometimes you may even be agape to verbalize some things considering you don't desire to encounter them happen.
7. Other people have told you that things you've prayed or said actually happened
8. Y'all are drawn to the prophetic and probably have a lot of dreams and see symbols of eagles
9. You lot've helped people become free or delivered from situations
10. You have a standard for righteousness and tin can see many problems within your church that others may not come across
11. You feel separate and apart from most people in your church and come across the demand for deep repentance
12. You lot generally do non follow other people, you lot follow God and what He is telling y'all to do. This ways that yous are a loner and you lot may not have a lot of friends, if any at all.
13. You're often misunderstood.
14. You are a black and white person. There is no in between.
15. Your deepest desire is to turn people away from sin and towards God.  From sin to repentance to restoration.

If you read any of the prophets in the old testament you will meet these 15 traits in them.

What is the purpose of prophesy?

(1 Corinthians 14:three AMP) "But [on the other hand] the one who prophesies speaks to people for edification [to promote their spiritual growth] and [speaks words of] encouragement [to uphold and propose them concerning the matters of God] and [speaks words of] alleviation [to compassionately comfort them]."

Almost in the body of Christ are under the impression that prophecies are simply suppose to be comforting and encouraging but this is only role of the motion-picture show.  Once again, if you read the bible in its entirety yous will see that before the blessings of God there has to be repentance from sin.  Prophesying repentance is not a touchy feel-good subject but nosotros tin't get to the blessings until we go through that.

On the other hand, at that place are prophets that only prophesy judgement.  How tin can they non see the end of the road?  How are they unable to come across that at the end of the judgment we have blessings?

The process is sin to repentance to restoration. So sometimes the prophetic word can be a rebuke and it is only as anointed every bit the one that encourages.

All prophets are intercessors merely not all intercessors are prophets.

Recollect, intercession is a gatekeeper type of gift.  Because the intercessor has access to God and communicates with God on a regular basis, God gives them the gifts they need to intercede for others.  So they tin move from souvenir to gift to souvenir every bit is needed for prayers to be answered.  Therefore, the intercessor can showtime out operating in a word of knowledge (a ane fourth dimension now word) then motility into a prophetic give-and-take (a word for a future date) and then move into the full souvenir of prophecy.  Continue in heed, a person can be a prophetic intercessor and non be chosen to exist a prophet.  If you are an intercessor and yous want to know this departure…usually the prophetic gift is completely shut off outside of intercession.  So, when they offset interceding information technology's on and when they finish it'south no longer operational.  Prophets can prophesy without going into deep intercession.  Although, it's highly unlikely to be sustained without an active prayer life.  Y'all tin can't actually be God's spokesperson without regular communion with God. Prayer is a part of communion with God.  Therefore, prophets from God take an active prayer life.  If you are receiving prophetic words with little to no prayer life, and then you need to question the source of the words you are receiving.

All seers are prophets but not all prophets are seers.

If yous tin see into the realm of the spirit, you are prophet because what God is showing yous in the spiritual realm is something that you will need to prophesy into, warn others about or stop it.  You tin can be a prophet and non take the seer gift.  Considering remember there are other means that God tin can communicate with you also spiritual sight.

Non everyone who receives a prophetic give-and-take from the Lord is a prophet

Merely because you can hear God and He gives you dreams and visions doesn't hateful y'all are a prophet.  It simply ways you lot accept the power to communicate with your Father in sky because you are a child of God.

I'm going to say that over again…

If God gives you a dream and it happens as He showed it to you this does not mean that you are a prophet.

I'm going to say that again…

God spoke with Mary in the bible, He spoke with Elizabeth, He spoke with Joseph through dreams and none of these people are prophets.  They are children of God and God communicated with them.

Then how will y'all know?  Go back and read the 15 traits above, if you are not able to connect with the majority on the list, at that place's a possibility y'all do non have the gift of prophecy.  You may be a child of God who has the ability to communicate with your Father, which is astonishing because a lot of Christians exercise not have this developed and this can exist taught.

This is something for you to know because the spiritual warfare, suffering and persecution that comes with beingness a prophet called of the Lord is very heavy and if you lot are not called to this, you will non be able to handle it.

Here are ii Warnings for prophets

This is important to remember as you start growing in this gift. Most ministries don't warn people about the pitfalls of this gift.  Therefore, most Christians start off well with the gift of prophecy and so end up in one of these 2 traps.

1. Yous must lookout man out for the spirit of Jezebel. Think that she preys on the prophet and looks to castrate and kill the anointing if she can't brand you lot ane of her subjects and take you working for her (as a simulated prophet and one of her children).  While I use the word "she" please understand this is a spirit so it can exist nowadays in a man equally well as a woman.

(one Kings eighteen:four) For and then it was, while Jezebel massacred the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah had taken one hundred prophets and subconscious them, fifty to a cave, and had fed them with breadstuff and water.

If you notice yourself in a grouping and the leader or 2nd in command carries the spirit of Jezebel, whatever person effectually them who says they are a prophet is actually a faux prophet or i of Jezebel'south children or a eunuch in the spirit (Revelation 2:xx-23).  Anyone who is a truthful prophet of God will not be able to stay around someone with a spirit of Jezebel.  The 2 spirits cannot coexist in the same space considering they are enemies.

Virtually prophets come into their calling as a prophet through intercession.  They tend to get-go out on prayer lines or in prayer groups.  Hence, these groups always have the spirit of Jezebel lurking.  This spirit wants to get the prophet when they are immature, if they have not yet fully developed in their souvenir of discerning of spirits and they may not even know that they accept the prophetic gift, the spirit of Jezebel turns them into her slave working for her. Prophesying for her and against others.  Nigh prophets have gone through deep persecution and suffering because of the gifting. The spirit of Jezebel is fatigued to wounded people; therefore, if she finds someone with the souvenir of prophecy and they are wounded to kicking, she will go after them.  She comes in finds your weakness, pretends to exist the friend , forms an brotherhood and later on she has pulled you in she starts training you.  If you are new to intercession and the gift of prophecy the training will basically be cursing other people.  Call up, the prophet's words have authority in the spirit realm and then she only needs them to use their tongue to kill others and open doors for her and close doors that she wants airtight on others. She puts herself in the place of God by manipulation and control and in the end the prophet goes to her as their college potency instead of God.

She basically prostitutes the gift for evil. Spiritual infidelity.  If the prophet is non one who reads the word and understands what God would or would not do before you lot know information technology he/she is walking in deep witchcraft.

If you are currently a part of a group and you have discerned Jezebels, you need to get out.  You shouldn't be tolerating information technology.  You'll be nether spiritual attacks initially because they are not going to be happy that they lost y'all, just you lot need out as before long equally possible.

Revelation two to the Church of Thyatira

¹⁸"To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are similar blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze. ^nineteenI know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you lot are at present doing more than you did at first. ²⁰Nevertheless, I have this against you: Yous tolerate that adult female Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. Past her education she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of nutrient sacrificed to idols. ²¹I take given her fourth dimension to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. ²²So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I volition make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they apologize of her ways. ²³I volition strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of yous according to your deeds. ²⁴Now I say to the rest of you lot in Thyatira, to you lot who practice not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan'due south and then-called deep secrets, 'I will non impose any other brunt on you, ²⁵except to hold on to what yous have until I come up.' ²⁶To the one who is victorious and does my volition to the end, I will give authority over the nations— ²⁷that one 'will rule them with an iron scepter and volition dash them to pieces like pottery'—just as I have received authority from my Father. ²⁸I will also requite that one the morning star. ²⁹Whoever has ears, allow them hear what the Spirit says to the churches."

2.  Watch out for the familiar spirits. When God gives you prophetic word it comes by the unction of the Holy Spirit.  You lot tin't force God to requite yous a prophetic discussion.  If He has nil to say, exercise the final thing He told you to do.  When I hear people say that other people pull prophetic words out of them, that is a little scary.  There is nothing to pull.  Yous either have a word or you don't. When you prophesy out of turn, when God has not said anything what you are doing is tapping into divination and familiar spirits.

When the Israelites got impatient waiting for Moses to come up down the mountain, what did they do?  Build the golden dogie.  When Saul was specifically told past the Prophet Samuel to wait for him and he went ahead and offered the burnt offering without waiting for Samuel, he sinned.  We accept to learn to wait on God because when we deed out of impatient then we put ourselves in sin

 (Isaiah 25:9) "Information technology shall exist said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we take waited for him, and he will salve us; this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his conservancy"

When we don't wait on God a demon is always waiting around to bring the reply.  And so why a familiar spirit?  Well these are the spirits that are fastened to generations.  When yous see patterns of sin happening in a family, there is a familiar spirit at work.  They create generational curses.  Yes, fifty-fifty later on yous are saved you tin can still accept a generational curse fastened to your family if it is not broken.  How volition you know if yous take a generational curse on your family?  In that location are patterns that happen when a expletive is in place.  If y'all accept a family with women who take miscarriages throughout the generations, there is a spirit at piece of work.  When y'all take multiple marriages like 3-iv marriages over generations of people, it's a spirit.  No one in your family unit got married?  Patterns of suicide.  Every family fellow member somewhen gets Alzheimer or cancer.  No, it's non genetic!  Information technology's a curse that needs to be broken and Tin be broken, in Jesus name.  Don't accept it. You are a child of God old things accept past away and all things have been made new.  That means your life needs to reverberate that.  No longer should you accept anything that was in one case a function of the sometime spiritually unrenewed man.  This is a part of your inheritance in Christ Jesus (Psalm 103:1-five).  The familiar spirits keep records of you.

So when you have a prophet that gives you information that is correct, this doesn't necessarily mean they are from God considering the familiar spirit knows everything near you.  They've been watching y'all since you were a kid.  If you never prayed them off or got rid of them they are even so there.

How to know when a prophet is working with familiar spirits

1. All roads pb to the coin.  By the end of their message y'all cease up giving them your coin, giving them your automobile, your house, your wedding ring.  Watch out! (2 Peter 2 and Numbers 22)
2. The prophetic word that yous receive from them will be 100% flesh.  You're going to be rich.  You'll live a mansion.  Yous'll have a big ministry building.  You, you, yous, you.  Information technology's always centered around stuff.
3. They prophesy huge blessings only never bring upward repentance or going to the foot of the cross.
4. When they do talk about someone's sin it is insensitive and cause public shame, injure and humiliation.  Some things should never be said in a public forum.
5. Therefore, in that location's no love.
6. They operate with signs, wonders and miracles simply there is no talk of salvation.  No i ever comes to know the Lord in those meetings.
7. They can tell yous the brand of cigarette in your pocket but they volition never pray deliverance over you to get rid of that demon of addiction.
8. It is a selfish spirit.  It is self serving. Prideful.
9. They tap into your desires and utilize information technology against you lot.  They look at the idol of your heart and use it to get you on the hook.
10. They never submit to the church authority.
11. They target weak minded or new Christians who don't know enough of the discussion of God.
12. They can prophesy with tremendous accuracy because the information comes from the familiar spirit who is attached to you that gives it to the familiar spirit fastened to them.
13. Hither's the conclusion yous will come to subsequently awhile, they've been so authentic nigh so many things only at the terminate of the day it seems to all come back to coin and merchandising.  Yeah, all roads lead to money.

The four worse things that happen to people or prophets subsequently they come in contact with someone who prophesies from a familiar spirit is this…

1. They get a familiar spirit assigned to them.  If you lot never had one before y'all now have one because you sabbatum under a prophet that had that on them.  If you sowed into their ministry, you sowed into a familiar spirit.  Therefore, you lot reap a familiar spirit.

2. Because you accept this familiar spirit that has been assigned to you, you now accept to question every dream or vision you received from the moment you got in contact with that prophet.  Because, they very well could be false visions and dreams now that you accept this spirit attached to y'all.  Doesn't hateful that all of your dreams and visions become false merely you need to bring every single one before the Lord and enquire if they are from Him.

3. Yous accept to become back to the beginning of your contact with the false prophet and erase every prophetic give-and-take they take ever given you lot. Why? They are false.  And then hopelessness will set in.  Hope deferred because y'all are waiting on something to happen which volition never happen.  The devil gave you lot fake promise.  Go dorsum to the beginning and make sure that y'all don't follow things that yous were told by this prophet.

iv. If you shared things with this prophet that God showed yous nearly your future, the enemy is now going to attempt to assail it, come against it and forestall information technology from happening.  Remember, they merely piece of work off of information.  So, if you told them at present they know.  So if you find that things you were sure were from God are not happening that is because the familiar spirit got a hold of it…because you told them.  Now y'all demand to war to go on what is from the Lord and belongs to you lot.  You may experience delays in your promises only you lot need to fight for them.

At present imagine these same prophets who operate with familiar spirits kickoff a school of the prophets, what exercise you think happens to the people they mentor?  They impart a familiar spirit onto those prophets as well.  How else does Jezebel end up with 450 prophets?  They have to recruit.

This is why the prophets of erstwhile didn't travel around with a lot of people.  Yous will discover that most people with a prophetic souvenir that are really walking with the Lord are loners.  They tin can't simply have anyone around them.  They have to protect the anointing and their spirit. Otherwise, they pick up stuff.  Male monarch Saul who was not a prophet prophesied in 1 Samuel ten considering he was hanging out with prophets.  It's contagious whether it'due south practiced or it'due south bad.

When Saul wanted to impale David because of the anointing that was upon Samuel anyone that went around him started to prophesy, even Saul, and no one could touch David.

(1 Samuel 19:18-24) "So David fled and escaped, and went to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had washed to him. And he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth. Now information technology was told Saul, saying, "Take note, David is at Naioth in Ramah!" Then Saul sent messengers to have David. And when they saw the group of prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as leader over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. And when Saul was told, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied besides. Then Saul sent messengers once more the third time, and they prophesied also. Then he also went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is at Sechu. So he asked, and said, "Where are Samuel and David?" And someone said, "Indeed they are at Naioth in Ramah." And then he went in that location to Naioth in Ramah. And then the Spirit of God was upon him besides, and he went on and prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah. And he also stripped off his clothes and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that dark. Therefore they say, "Is Saul besides amid the prophets?"

The leader of the grouping will determine the spirit of the group.  It all comes from the pinnacle.

Familiar spirits travel like wild fire so if you are hanging effectually people in the prophetic who accept it on them, you are going to pick one up.  Prophets who operate with familiar spirits initially reap financial benefits and go elevated past the body of Christ considering of their accuracy.  These demonic spirits only utilise this initially get the prophet hooked then what follows is a serial of faux visions, false dreams that not only pb other Christians astray but that false prophet equally well.  They offset going after things that are not real and end upward nowhere.  Full hopelessness. Then the aforementioned spirit uses to false information to accuse them and tear them down publicly.  The end game is to kill, steal & destroy.

You will know y'all have a familiar spirit because God will show it to you.  In dreams you'll have someone or something following you lot.  Sometimes you'll come across the same person or spirit in several dreams.  That is what information technology is.  They travel with you wherever yous get because they demand to collect data on yous.  Subsequently you break it off yourself inquire God to show y'all where and how you picked it up so you avoid this.

If you are reading this,  and you lot believe yous may have a familiar spirit, then you need to break information technology off of yourself.  Here is more information on Familiar Spirits

Remember, you will selection up what you lot hang effectually so you lot must be able to discern, discern, discern the source of all prophetic letters.  Before you get besides deeply involved in having someone mentor you, make sure you know what spirit is operating there. Take the fourth dimension (months) to picket them, how they operate, how they treat people, is at that place any dear there?

For those of you with the Souvenir of Prophecy, hither's ane final thought God wants me to share with you…

Jesus stripped Himself of His divinity and came to earth to save you.  He was browbeaten across recognition, bled and He died just to relieve y'all.  That is how much He loves you.  Not only did He do this but He as well bestowed upon you a spiritual gift of prophecy.  Yous were given the gift so that you lot could encourage others, bring them to repentance, deliver them and atomic number 82 them to Him. Do you think it is right to take the free gift of salvation and the free spiritual gift that yous were given and sell it to someone else? How do yous think Jesus would react as He stands in your midst and listen to y'all tell someone to activate the word that can save their very soul they must sow a seed?  Do you recollect He would exist pleased with that?  You would exist selling what He died for.  Profiting off of the blood of Jesus.  He died for that person too!

This is so grievous.  Does it non grieve the Spirit of God within you lot? Information technology should. I don't care how they phrase it "sow a seed", "partner with the give-and-take",  "activate the discussion", "for any donation…" NO!

Jesus is not happy.  These prophets & pastors always give this one scripture in the bible about the widow of Zarephath (one Kings 17) every bit justification for what they are doing.  Information technology was i woman in the entire history of Elijah's ministry.  It was non the manner that Elijah made his living.  It was a word for one woman, not a give-and-take for the masses.  Elijah lived by supernatural provision and words of knowledge as he moved from one place to the side by side.  Every bit well as all the other prophets and disciples.  God gave them word of knowledge and wisdom on how to survive.  He brought people to them to support them.

The same God who gives you the prophetic word for people can give you a business thought, can requite yous multiple streams of income, can show you the hidden riches in dark places. Tin can He not? Won't He practise information technology?

It is wrong effort to turn a profit off of the blood of Jesus! He died to requite you the word.  At present yous must dice to the lust of the mankind and the lust of the eyes in order to requite the Give-and-take to someone else.  Jesus gave Himself equally an example. Ministry is a sacrifice, it is non a business.

God is allowing this to go on for a fourth dimension so that the great separation of the wheat and tares will be obvious to everyone.  When He shows up to overturn the money changers table, that grouping won't be able to hide considering Anybody will know who communes with the spirit of mammon.

You volition be tested in this area.  When it starts happening…Stay pure.  Flee from the spirit of mammon, greed & lust.  Don't defile yourself. Serve God with a pure center and clean hands.

Does this mean that yous can't ask people for a donation? No.  Information technology doesn't mean that at all.  There is zilch incorrect with you asking people for a donation if you take a need in your ministry.  Ask and it will be given to yous.  What you should never practice is tell people that you lot can't give them the word or the word has no effect without them sowing a seed.  Do you lot meet the deviation?  There is a difference.

I've been asked before to requite personal prophetic words to be people for a donation, the answer is No.

I don't charge for prayers and I don't charge for prophetic words.  If I have a word to requite yous, I'll give it to you lot. Y'all need prayer, I'll pray for yous. There is no money involved. I got the gift for gratis, I give the souvenir for complimentary.

Here's another one…What if I give you $i,000 every month, tin can you give me a monthly prophetic discussion?  No.  What if the discussion I give y'all is one of rebuke, will you want a refund?  This will eventually atomic number 82 to compromise. How in the world am I going to accept a prophetic discussion specifically for you every month?  What if the Lord gives me cypher for yous?  Now I tap into a familiar spirit and divination because of money.

All of this is a trap from the enemy.

If people are being blessed by your ministry they volition donate to your ministry building.  The Lord Himself will make sure they exercise information technology.  Don't sell the gift.

You tin read this article if you want to know more near sowing seed and collecting coin, all the scriptures are here.

Here are the other posts in this prophetic series Understanding the timeline of a prophetic discussion  and How to starting time using your Prophetic Souvenir

I promise this helps to shine a light on somethings you may have discerned in the prophetic. Practise yous have any questions?  Write them in the comments. God Bless!

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