Hello Lifelike.
- could you please explain how you know you were appointed to the office of prophet (if that is what you mean)?
- what is the role of the prophet today?
- might i see a source(s) you believe to be representative of your position?
thank you
zone.
Ive been a Christian for 14 years. I was 19 when i had an encounter with God, I alaways believed there was a God, I didnt believe that we could communicate with Him, I knew He heard our prayers, but didnt think He would talk back. At about the age of 16 I got upset with God because I couldnt get my own way one day, and turned from Him. I ended up in jail, addicted to drugs, I was always a good kid but I was so broken and had no real hope of getting healed, other than the next hit, or sexual experience that would make me feel ok. I was out with a friend one night, a 19yr messed up kid, and i was so insecure all night that i couldnt even speak to him, ive never been so messed up. We went back to his place and he began telling me about his girlfriend and some things she was going through, and how hurt she was. I spoke for the first time that night and told him "She just to know that theres someone that loves her." As soon as the words came out of my mouth I realised that the words had not come from myself, and I realised that thats what I needed. And in that moment I experienced the love of God for myself for the first time. And my friend was blown away, it was truly a spiritual moment. I came from a broken home, and was so devoid of the love of God that it was like a refreshing spring in the desert, it literally gave me life. I got up off the bed and we went in to his loungeroom and put on the TV, and i could see evil in different people on the screen. I had no idea what was happening to me, and had no framework to understand that what was happening was i was discernign spirits - which i later learnt is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
After this experience I spoke to my mother, who i knew went to church, and told her I dont know whats happening but i think God is trying to do something in my life. She invited me to church, i responded to an invitation to go up the front and receive Jesus Christ as my saviour and Lord. I was terrified, but responded, and stood before the pastors wife who prayed with me. Next thing I know im laying on the floor, and i can hear the lady saying "come out of hi." i felt myself squirming on the floor, but I felt I was deep down within myself in a dark place. I turned to God and said to Him "God I dont have much, but if you can do something with me, you can have my life." I felt so accepted.
I got up off the floor, and walked out the back of the church and looked up to the sky and staed in wonder. It was like i was seeing the clouds for the very first time. I believe I had been born again.
At this stage of my life i was working at a major casino, and when i returned to work people were amazed at the change in me, my closest friends didnt recognise me, I was converted, stopped swearing, and began talking to them all about God. Funny thing was, is that God was with me. When i spoke I spoke of things i have never learnt, only to find out over time that the bible teaches the same things. I once spoke to a friend for 22hrs over 3 shifts, never repeating myself, talking about the reality of God. I was really bearing witness by the power of the Holy Spirit. I was learning about God from some christian videos mum had given me, and learnt that God heals, and so believing so strongly because of my experience, i prayed for a girl with a wart on her foot and it fell off. I began to see nearly all of the gifts of the holy spirit begin to operate in my life, and heard God speak to me on many occassions, once audibly. I t was a really powerful time of my life.
It was a beautiful start and introduction to God, but i was then taken through some of the most difficult stages of my life as the Lord had me face my deepest darkest hurts and places in my heart. I was introduced to a church on the Gold Coast that was prophetic and very much more alive and deep and real that any church i had experienced before. I have been with them as a committed member now for over 8 years. Ive never had any doubts as to the fact that the gifts of the Holy Spirit are for today - I saw them in and around me everywhere i went in my Christian experience. But This introduction to the prophetic was a whole new level to anything i had previously experienced. I always knew i was prophetic, and my experience in God was always two sided, I experienced Him in a very real way in my Christian walk. When i shared it was by His anointing and enabling, His Spirit. I saw and felt things, and knew things which is a prophetic trait. But i had just entered a company of people that were much more mature and experienced than myself in the prophetic. I had always know i was prophetic (as all of God's children are meant to become) but never considered myself as a Prophet as in the office. Probably more pastoral or teacher. But i began receiving prophetic words from seasoned prophets at different times and places that were all indicating that i was called as a prophet - in the office of.
Its pretty obvious when your in the environment that I am in that it is God, because the same spirit is moving through many members, one voice, one God. And im at the end of the lesser, the people over me and heavy weights. Its in this church, that I have been recognised as called to the office of Prophet - which is one of the roles of the prophet is to recognised people after the spirit and set them in place in the body. Same with the Apostle. It is a governmental office in the body, it is a headship ministry. There is 3 parts in the process of being set in place as a prophet 1/ called as: There is a call on your life, you go through preparation that God works, and other prophets and apostles will recognise the call on your life. 2/ Commissioning: This is where a prophet or apostle in the office of discerns that God is commissioning you, and you are recognised as a prophet and receive the mantle. 3/ Ordination: this is the point where a prophet is set in place in the body as a prophet - and there are many types of prophet, some are called to a local fellowship, some to a group of churches, some as an international prophet, called to the planet. I was recently commissioned as a prophet, and there is now a responsibility place on my gift, to develop and begin to operate, growing as a prophet.
People have a wrong idea if they think this is an arrogant thing, or see the term "prophet" as a glory to self title. Its a function, in the body of Christ and it is an office appointed by Him. This is a MASSIVE subject and i know your manifesting all over the place and wanting scriptures, which I can easily supply, if i had 6 years to put it all together for you. Zone. But this is probably for someone else and not even for you, so your probably not going to get what you want. And I dont aim to please you, or feel the need to have your acceptance. lol. God has proved Him self in this to me in thousands of ways that His life impacts me. So yea, im not really trying to convert you, but it would be good. God loves you and wants you to experience all that He has for you to experience. To know the hieght, the depth and the breadth of His love, in a personal and experiential way. And I know that you will probaby pick my post apart saying i rely to heavily on experience and not enough on scripture. But let me assure you I live by the word, and my experience could only be possible because He first spoke it and the breath of His Spirit brings it life in my life. Im so excited, not by any office or title or thing other than to know Christ more intimately, and the only way that will happen is when we function as He intended. This is the greatest work every to be seen in the universe: bringing to life a body a bride that is Christ manifest on the earth! When He's done, we will see Christs exact likeness and the fullness of His stature in the earth - and then He will return for Himself in us.
But yes the world will be destroyed by His Wrath. And great trouble will come on the earth - Im not prophesying this, its already written.