The Spiritual Song - Exploring Prophetic Worship by Mike Herron

speaking must stop. In this way, all who prophesy will have a turn to speak, one after the other, so that everyone will learn and be encouraged.’ (14 :29-31) Again, this is not a formula for the amount of prophetic utterances or prophetic songs that can be shared in the church. It does show us that after 2 or 3, they must be ‘discerned’ or judged as to their authenticity. It is also teaching us that one person should not go too long in the prophetic gift but show deference to the other prophetic ministries. I have found in the prophetic that you usually have a strong empowerment by the Holy Spirit on your first revelation. As you begin to go beyond that into secondary and lesser unctions you lose prophetic momentum. Some ministries belabor their prophecies and are actually absorbing someone else’s pri mary and highly inspired utterance with their lesser unction. That is when it would be nice to interrupt them (although I have seldom seen that happen)! This passage also teaches us that the prophetic utterance and song of the Lord are not reserved for the designated prophets of 1 Cor 12:28 but for ‘all’ of the believing community. It is best that those who are speaking or singing be known to the congregation and the leaders of the church. One supremely important thought is that PROPHECY IS NOT ON THE SAME LEVEL AS SCRIPTURE! In the above passage from 1 Cor 14 we