Your Sons & Daughters Shall Prophesy - Prophetic Gifts Today In The New Testament Church

Prophets and Prophecy in the Book of Acts

a.Ananias (9:17) 6.The prophets at Antioch (13:1-2) c.The prophets in various churches (20:23; 21:4) d.Agabus (21:10-11)

9.It is possible that 4:3-12 (Peter on trial) offers the first recorded case of the disciples coming before magistrates and fulfilling Luke 12:11-12.

REFLECTIONS

...The primitive Christian communities displayed a fresh outburst of enthusiasm and of prophetism.Prophecy was indeed one of the most dis tinctive features of early Christianity. 24 K.S.Latourette The picture of the prophet which emerges from the pages of Scrip ture and the early church writings is impressive.Rather than a mere mouth piece who passively responds when God picks him up, the prophet is a con scious agent of God, gifted by God to be an envoy, a watchman, and a bearer of royal authority. 25 Bruce Yocum Although New Testament prophecy never has authority equal to Scripture in our lives, it can carry with it revelation for the hour (or pres ent time) about which the Holy Spirit wants the Church to know.We see this pattern all through the book of Acts. 26 Cindy Jacobs I have found that those who move with a remarkable degree of accu racy in the prophetic do so by receiving revelation from God by means that go beyond the "reporting in human words what God brings to mind." On occasion God speaks to his servants in an audible voice....Additionally, open visions of the spiritual realm or of future events are familiar modes of communication to those who move in the prophetic realm with a remark able degree of accuracy. 27 Mike Bickle

209.