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believers listen to, discerned, corrected and helped other believers in giving a prophetic words (1 Cor.14:29). 37

This is a time for other believers to be critical but helpful in

learning to better hear and minister the word God. A new

testament belief can be wrong in a prophetic word without being

a deceiving or false prophet. It is important to learn how to hear

and share God’s word in a conducive and permissive

environment where believers can receive loving accountability.

Above all, the church must discern through the Holy Spirit the

quality of the prophetic word they are hearing (1 Thess. 5:19

21). We are to take hold of what is good and do away with what

is bad without doing away with the prophetic gift.

Third : A believer must learn to draw close to the Lord and learn

to abide in God’s word and presence. In the Old Testament the

prophet Jeremiah made an observation about the false

prophets of his day.

I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel , and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should

37 The word for discerning in 1Cor.14:9 is the Greek word “diakrino , ” which means to carefully discern, to purposefully be discriminating about what is heard.