Module 9 Gift of Prophecy

How to activate this gift.

Today we are going to ask The Lord for the gift of prophecy using as the model for our prayer: -

• Mark 11:22-24" Therefore I tell you that whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."

Desire......we are told to eagerly desire the gifts, especially prophesy.

Pray.........we ask for this gift

Believe.... we know that it is his will for us to receive it

Have........ we thank the Lord for the gift, believing we have received.

Use………we step out in faith and operate in the gift.

• Matthew 7:7-20 v9,10 Or what man is thereof you, whom if his son ask bread, will give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

Pentecostal belief is that a Gift only operates as and when the Holy Spirit directs and therefore cannot be practiced, this is linked with operating under the Spirit of Prophecy not the Gift.

Charismatic belief is that the Gift is given to that person and they have a responsibility to develop that gift. That these gifts are given a s a seed and need to be nurtured and we have a responsibility to stir up these gifts and step out in faith to operate in them..

We have been instructed to be doers of the word not just hearers, so based on that instruction, we now step out expecting the gift to operate. We realise that the gift needs to develop, but we can begin to prophesy today.

The evidence of being baptised in the Holy Spirit is speaking in other tongues, the evidence of receiving the gift of prophecy is to prophesy.

2 Types of prophecy :-

Corporate…to the congregation as a whole…

A prophecy can come before the meeting and be written down, or can come spontaneously during the meeting, with the person prophesying having 10/15 minutes to prepare how to deliver the prophecy, or it can be completely spontaneous.

Personal … to an individual, either openly in a meeting or privately during ministry time.

Learning to drive a car begins by learning the separate steps and then as we become more proficient, these steps flow into each other.

How Prophecy comes - We ride on the wings of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit gives us: -

(1) Revelation....................we see, hear or feel something from God

Ask for the interpretation, what does it mean?

(2) Interpretation.............understanding begins to come of what it means

Ask how to communicate this meaning?

(3) Delivery.......................How we minister this to the person.

Wrapped in love to bless them

(4) Edify…………………exhort and comfort…..to build up the body

Activation of prophecy … Jesus' method of Discipleship

• Instruction Short teaching to show it is biblical
• Demonstration See and hear gift in operation
• Operation You step out in faith

Prayer of submission to God and bind the demonic

We ask the Father in Jesus Name for the Gift of prophecy and then we thank Him for that gift.

Find a partner, preferably someone you do not know well.

Introduce yourself.

On the instruction, begin to pray, ask The Lord for something that will bless your partner, and then begin to pray in tongues, for about 2 minutes.

Stop praying and start listening, what is God saying to you for this person.

After about 2 minutes you will be asked to deliver what you believe The Lord is saying to that person.

When you finish the other person will now, deliver what they have for you.

There may be time for some feedback before you change partner and repeat.

There will be opportunities to prophesy in small groups, and if there is enough time to receive prophecy from seminar leaders.