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

The Use of Prophecy in Church Today

In such cases the people of the church should not take personal offense when they are not asked to share.All this requires patience and tolerance. We are still learning. Humility. Be willing to have your words tested.Never insist you are right or try to prove that you are.Simply give the message and leave the results to God and His people (Ecclesiastes 11:1; Isaiah 55:11 ). Learn from your mistakes. 6 Remember, no one is infallible.Let others vindicate you.Pride goes before a fall (Proverbs 16:18).Guard against highmind edness and keep from coming across as super-spiritual. Faith. Never fear failure.If you aim for nothing, you will achieve noth ing.You are not a failure, however, if you try.Faith must be exercised to come forward and speak.A perfectly good prophetic insight does not qualify as prophecy unless it is proclaimed audibly to the assembled church.Prophesy "according to the proportion of [your] faith " (Romans 12:6 ) and the level of your maturity.But avoid prophesying beyond your proportion of faith.Having someone screen candidates, listen and judge helps us all perfect our skills in this. Announcements. Visitors and new people should be informed of the church's procedures through the bulletin and platform announcements. Generally it is best if a new person who comes to the mike is instructed to return to his or her seat and be talked to after the service.Testimonies should not be given during this time but shared with the whole church at a scheduled time.(Such testimonies can be gleaned from the church's home groups, where people are sharing regularly, and the more impressive ones brought to the entire church.) Every church moving in the prophetic needs to have its teaching on prophecy available to the local church body.As Bickle says: "The prophetic ministry in the local church functions in an 'orderly freedom' only when both the pastors and the congregation have a common understanding of how things should work." 7 Titles. Usually the more secure a person is in a ministry, the less nec essary for him or her to have recognition or a title.When a person is called a prophet, even if this is true, attention is drawn to the verification of the person while the message is subordinated.Take the humble approach and do not boast of your gifting or insist that you have any gift.Never manip ulate to prove you are right.Keep a teachable outlook. 8 Larry Randolph suggests: "It's not what you say but what you are that makes the differ ence....By simply being what God has called you to be, the Church will recognize your prophetic office and respond to it....If you have to con vince people that you are a prophet, you have most likely demonstrated that you are not a prophet." 9 Judgment. The possibility of a margin of error is always present.I agree with Pytches when he says, "We have met a number who have been greatly • 368