An introduction to this Christian Prophetic blog

This blog is intended as a way to make more widely available to the church and to the nations prophetic messages.

As I have never blogged before, please bear with me as I attempt to find my way through the maze of technical stuff and blunder my way around until I get up and running with this. My aim is not to have a super-slick looking blog with bells and whistles sounding off at each mouse click, but if it is at least functional and gets the message out then that is all that really matters -so let’s hope I get the hang of this quickly!

Of course it is the content of the actual message and not the slickness of its presentation that matters anyway, something that seems to have been forgotten in much of the 21st Century church. This grieves me greatly and is just one  of the reasons for my starting this blog.

The Church has been flooded by deception: with deceived but well-meaning Christians who have not heard ‘The Berean Call’ to test and weigh everything, with ’soft’ or ‘weak’ leaders who are not meticulous in weeding out false doctrine before it takes a hold on their congregation’s hearts and minds (perhaps they fear man more than God), and then those that do not want to hear the truth and listen to only man-appointed ‘apostles’ and ‘prophets’ who preach and prophesy ear-tickling messages light years away from the New Testament (‘Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies’). Just like a rich widow is romanced by a handsome young smooth-talking conman and deep down knows even while it occurs that she is being conned, she still listens to the seductive talk, loving and revelling in the flattery and thus she deceives herself and has really only herself to blame when the conman’s true colours are finally revealed.

The charlatans a-plenty who do not fear man, God or Beast are out to fleece the vulnerable and undiscerning for every last dime and do so on most of the Christian television networks hour after hour. Then there are the more sinister ones who intentionally prey like vultures – the witches and satanic devotees who disguise themselves as angels of light and infiltrate churches with their satanic-inspired agenda which appears more like ‘the purpose driven church’ when in its ’sanctified form’. Satan knows scripture, (and very well), albeit he twists it for his own ungodly purposes. He is a good counterfeiter, looks, walks and talks almost like what we think is a real Christian.

And the true prophets who can speak into this – their voice is not heard much these days. When they are heard it is like a lone voice in the wilderness of false teaching, apostasy and flakiness.

I realise that a lot of Christians might get angry or stirred up when they read this as it goes against the grain of what they have been taught to accept, and it is also against the tide of current opinion but PLEASE stop and ask God if there is truth to it before you ignore it or discard me as nutcase. God knows that in my youth, I wish I had been more discerning. Instead I jumped in headfirst, almost without question. Ask God for his wisdom which he will give to all without finding fault.

Other people may reject me as despite warning of the flakiness in the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements, I still prize the spiritual gifts and believe in the prophetic ministry. There are some interesting websites out there that have a wealth of sound biblical information on them and have revealed the sharks and charlatans to be just that, but unfortunately these sites are for the most part obviously anti-gifts of the spirit and anti-supernatural and so immediately lose the Pentecostal audience that needs to hear about the false teachings in their midst the most.

I am NOT anti-gifts of the spirit, what I urge though is discernment in their use.  The Pentecostal and Charismatic and Third Wave movements to their shame have not historically valued discernment or been able to accept constructive criticism. Discernment is valued very highly in the New Testament, it is even a spiritual gift so much is it needed by the Church, and it is certainly NOT grieving or quenching the Holy Spirit to test or weigh any prophetic words before accepting them to be of God. If it were not so, the Corinthian Church would not have been urged to judge, to test and weigh CAREFULLY each prophecy (1 Cor 14.29), and we would not be commanded to test the spirits, whether they are of God ….as many false prophets have gone into the world. (I John 4:1-6)

And where are the true prophets today? They are (mostly) not welcomed as the truth is hard to take and is for the foremost not wanted by the 21st Century Church. God’s true ones perhaps do not look attractive enough, wear smart enough clothes, speak (or write) eloquently enough, have all the right buzz words or have the ‘right’ contacts and endorsements. They do not have the designer Gucci suits, cosmetic surgery or limosines and so in prosperity churches or on Christian TV would be rejected before they even reached the door because of appearances alone.  They refuse to use buzz words, manipulative voice intonations, mesmerism or other hypnotic techiniques, and do not need to yell at the top of their voice or have people fall over ’slain in the spirit’ when they speak. They do not need to hype the audience up into a frenzy before they give a message. They speak normally. They speak humbly. And because of this (and much more) they are not wanted.

Preach fire! Preach anointing! Preach revival!

How dare you say that we must repent! I’m spiritual. I’m right before God. I go to lots of meetings and get blessed re-e-aal good. The anointing is so strong there that I…….

I don’t feel the same buzz at YOUR meetings.

What do you mean you are NOT going to talk about revival? Today I wanna hear about revival. What do you mean when you say the other prophets who say the nations will be ablaze with revival this year are not right? What do you mean that the prophets who are talking about the recent floods being floods to wash away sin and bring in righteousness are false? What do you mean a message of repentance must be preached? Floods of blessing and anointing oil and revial that’s what I want and some spiritual warfare. Yeah! Yee hah!

What do you mean when you say that my version of spiritual warfare is not effective and is often a diversion tactic from the enemy to stop us preaching the gospel? How dare you!!!!!!! I spent loads of money on going to Cindy Jacobs’ conferences. How dare you! She is a woman of God! How dare you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course it is Biblical, of course it is effective….it must be! All the top people are into it……..they are godly men and women. They aren’t deceived. They aren’t deceivers! Don’t give me that. See how their faces shine! I can see the spirit on them – Satan disguised as angels of light, you say? Now you are being ridiculous! Get out! Get out of my church and don’t come back! I do not NEED to test and weigh everything. I know on this I am right! I must be! Besides which, my pastor would tell me if I were wrong.

How dare you say that we in the church must repent!

How dare you say that we are goats and not sheep! How dare you say that we must have servant hearts and love others. I want my ministry to be about body counts for people slain in the spirit, I do not want to wash my brother’s feet. That homeless guy? Ugh? You must be joking! Let someone else less spiritual than me do that. I’m off to another church meeting where I am going to soak up the Spirit. What do you mean God wants me to feed the poor instead of going to that meeting, don’t give me that! I have thrown my money onto the waters. That’s right I gave all those dollars to that TV evangelist, that’s my giving taken care of. God will bless me real good for that.

Preach fire! Preach anointing! Preach revival!

and so on. I do not jest.

True prophets can get compromised, pressured to conform, are quieted through various manipulative forms or doctrines (eg told they are wrong, told prophecy is never critical or judgmental, told the five-fold ministry is no longer applicable to the church, told the spiritual gifts have ceased, or they are just not given the chance to speak in church. Possibly they are forced into ungodly submission to a man who will abuse his spiritual authority, or a ‘good one’ is they are encouraged to intercede rather than speak which is another cop-out, or they are steered towards another ministry/calling in its place (an ‘anti-ministry’) which can look very tempting.)

They can fall prey to the temptations of pride and false authority, worldly gain and a ‘power ministry’ that is outside of God’s Will – the same temptations as Jesus faced in the wilderness. Some fall, some stay in the wilderness til their lessons are learned, some never get to the wilderness in the first place as they are too weak to be led there by the spirit (God knows they would fall), and others, when they return from the wilderness conquering these temptations suffer, they are ostracized, criticised, slandered, misunderstood, rejected and in my experience frequently battle the giants of discouragement, questioning their gifting and calling and frequently get very, very hurt and can go back to the wilderness time and again til their skin gets tougher and when obedience to God is all that matters come persecution or flattery.

And as a consequence of this hurt, true prophets have often hidden and retired and withdrawn into themselves after having rock upon rock of abuse hurled at them from the church, or are still crying and feeling sorry for themselves down the deep well they have been thrown into. Some have hidden from Jezebel into the caves and have not come out for fear of reprisals. And some fear Man more than God and God will deal with them in a storm leading to deep repentance in the belly of a whale.

May the true prophets come out from hiding and speak up in these days and in these times! They are needed as much now as ever.

It is my belief that the major known prophetic organisations and networks out there (that all seem to lead and network to one source and to one self-appointed head, C Peter Wagner) ARE antichrist and intentionally aim to reach the true prophets and mold them to the false with deception, flattery and pressure to conform to the current tide. Thus the TRUE voice is stilled in these end times and the end times Beast rises up in her place that will in its time persecute the true believers.

People who love God and have a true prophetic gifting/ministry/calling can be in innocently in this network, quite unaware of its true agenda, albeit as they spend more and more time in the network they become weakened and compromised – it is time for them to come out and have no more part of it. Have nothing to do with such men. Some true prophets who have refused to align themselves to this network will not get invited to minister many places or get a higher profile by doing so so their voice is not heard much and most Christians will not have heard of them. I urge them to stay strong, and stay true to God and their convictions and to keep speaking despite the stone throwing.

Let the true prophets speak and open the church’s eyes to her true state. Let the Christians who have their eyes opened speak up, and warn their churches and leaders once, twice with someone else present if not previously heeded, and then possibly three times and if nothing changes then leave their churches and find somewhere that does adhere to the truth. Have nothing to do with such men.

God wants a prophetic church and a prophetic people. A clean people with clean hands and clean hearts, a pure and spotless bride, not the monster it has in many places become.