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

Mind: How Did Prophecy Come to a Prophet?

But the instructions proved correct.In 1914 a period of unimaginable horror arrived for Armenia.With remorseless efficiency the Turks began the bloody business of driving two-thirds of the population out into the Mesopotamian desert. Over a million men, women and children died in these death marches, including every inhabitant of Kara Kala.Another half a million were massacred in their villages, in a program that was later to provide Hitler his blueprint for the extermination of the Jews.... The few Armenians who managed to escape the besieged areas brought with them tales of great heroism.They reported that the Turks sometimes gave Christians an opportunity to deny their faith in exchange for their lives.The favorite procedure was to lock a group of Christians in a barn and set it afire: "If you are willing to accept Mohammed in place of Christ we'll open the doors." Time and again, the Christians chose to die, chant ing hymns of praise as the flames engulfed them. Those who had heeded the warning of the Boy Prophet and sought asy lum in America heard the news with dismay. Grandfather Demos was among these who had fled.After his experi ence with the Russian patriarch, Grandfather no longer discounted the validity of prophecy.In 1905 he sold the farm which had been in the fam ily for generations ...selected the possessions that his family would carry on their backs ...and with his wife, his six daughters ...and ...thirteen year-old Isaac, he set out for America. 38 It was by the agency of the Spirit of God that the prophets received the Divine communication....But the means by which the Divine Spirit communicated with the human spirit under which the Divine communica tions were received, have not been clearly declared to us. 39 William Smith The responsible personhood of the prophet remains intact even though the whole man with his understanding and will stands under the operation of the Spirit. 40 G.Friedrich The prophetic ministry could be summed up as simply the ability to hear God.There are spiritual gifts involved, but the most important qual ity for anyone who is called by God to have is the ability to understand what God is saying.We will only be able to understand what He is saying if we know Him, and know His language. 41 Paul Cain REFLECTIONS

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