PROPHECIES

TRUE PROPHECY is always, ALWAYS a warning! True prophecy nevers strokes the human ego; it is always a call to repentance! There was never a true prophet who did not warn or called to repentance.

But prophets of the renewal only imagine to be inspired by God and what they generate are simply the workings of their own inner voice… Yet nobody questions them, because after all, the “dear little children” type of prophecies rarely contradict the faith and so the appropriate response is the charismatic mantra; “Praise you Lord” and “Thank you Jesus”.

Some of these prophets have their moments of doubt, of course, but it is not so easy to give up the special status they have grown accustomed to. Besides the prayer group would just urge them “not to give into the enemy”. Pride is one powerful trap.

In a rare moment of soul searching the local prophet told me her story. She joined the renewal in the sixties; “I was mightily anointed, the prophecy just poured out of me” she said. “God was walking with me, I felt it.” Then she got sick and had to take cortisone that made her “see the eye of God and hear his heartbeat”. At this point I looked at her incredulously, but she continued. “When the cortisone treatment was over everything went quiet. I am not sure if my prophecies are from God, because I feel nothing. Do you think that I should continue with it?” Don’t do it if you are not sure, I said, God does not like false prophets. That was more than fifteen years ago. She is still the prayer group prophet, but by now her subconscious must hold a never-ending supply of prophecies fit for every possible occasion. Was she anointed by God in the sixties? I don’t know. But I am certain that the cortisone induced intimacy and the prophecies she has been churning out ever since are NOT from God.