What is Prophecy?

What is Prophecy?Prophecy is Speaking out the heart of God

February 1ST, 2017 WELCOME TO EQUIPPING NIGHTSLEARNING TO PROPHESY SEMINAR

Catch the Fire Airport Campus

Main Leader: Marco Lafebremarcoantoniolafebre@gmail.comhttp://www.slideshare.net/MarcoLafebre/presentationshttps://www.facebook.com/Marco.Lafebre

LEARNING TO PROPHESYThis will be your training place for six weeks So get to know the other members of the group as you will be interacting with them.Remember: you are here to learn.The best way to learn is practicing.So put off your embarrassment or pride or anything that may try to tell you that you cannot do it.GOD tells you: YES YOU CAN, IM WIYH YOU!

Some definitions and ideas

Before learning how to prophesy, lets understand what really is the act of prophecy.Lets see some dictionary definitions.What the bible say about prophecy.And then lets break those ideas down so we would be able to understand what prophecy is.

British Dictionarydefinitions for prophecyProphecy /prfs/ noun (pl) -cies1. a message of divine truth revealing God's will the act of uttering such a message2. a prediction or guess3. the function, activity, or charismatic endowment of a prophet or prophets

Word OriginC13: ultimately from Greek prophts prophet

Prophecy in the BibleOr prediction, was one of the functions of the prophet. It has been defined as a "miracle of knowledge, a declaration or description or representation of something future, beyond the power of human sagacity to foresee, discern, or conjecture."

British Dictionary

Prophecy in the BibleThe great prediction which runs like a golden thread through the whole contents of the Old Testament is that regarding the coming and work of the Messiah; and the great use of prophecy was to perpetuate faith in his coming, and to prepare the world for that event.

British Dictionary

1 Corinthians 14:3 (NKJV)3But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men.

New King James Version(NKJV)

What is prophecy?Prophecy is simply: edifying, exhorting and comforting people.Prophecy is about restoring the image of God in people.Prophecy is simply showing people what God has for them.Prophecy is telling people how God sees them.Prophecy is waking up in people passion for God.Prophecy is setting the captives free.

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What is prophecy?Prophecy is removing ashes and covering people with the mantle of joy.Prophecy is bringing healing to people.Prophecy is a communication of Spirit to spirit.Prophecy comes from the desire to love people; from the desire to encourage and to bless them.Prophecy comes in a spontaneous way, because you are becoming more and more Christ centered.

What is in the heart of God?

Gods heart is full of love as He himself is Love.1 John 4:8 (NIV)8Whoever does not love does not know God, becauseGod is love.1 John 4:16 (NIV)16And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love.Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

Gods heart is full of love as He himself is Love.

1 Corinthians 2:9 (NKJV)9But as it is written: Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.

Gods heart is full of love as He himself is Love.

God is the greatest encourager. The bible is full of promises of forgiveness, blessings, help and assistance.His love for us is:unlimited, unconditional, unending.His plan for us is way beyond our wildest dreams.

Gods heart is filled with love!What is filling our hearts?Luke 6:45 (NKJV)45A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heartbrings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Proverbs 16:23 (NIV)23The hearts of the wise make their mouths prudent, and their lips promote instruction.

Gods heart is filled with love!What is filling our hearts?Proverbs 4:23 (NKJV)23Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of itspringthe issues of life.Isaiah 32:6 (NKJV)6For the foolish person will speak foolishness, And his heart will work iniquity:To practice ungodliness,To utter error against theLord,To keep the hungry unsatisfied,And he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

When we are in love with God

We are filled with Him, We are filled with His love to an overflowing point, Then we cannot avoid pouring out His love to people around us.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV)

16All Scripture is God-breathedand is useful for teaching,rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,17so that the servant of God[a]may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Training in righteousnessLet us now Declare and Solemnly proclaim the benefit of some powerful Scripture Versesfor our lives

Isaiah 11:2 (NKJV)

2The Spirit of theLordshall rest upon Him,The Spirit of wisdom and understanding,The Spirit of counsel and might,The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of theLord.

Isaiah 50:4-5 (NKJV)

4The LordGodhas given MeThe tongue of the learned,That I should know how to speakA word in season tohim who isweary.He awakens Me morning by morning,He awakens My earTo hear as the learned.5The LordGodhas opened My ear;And I was not rebellious,Nor did I turn away.

Isaiah 59:21 (NKJV)

21As for Me, says theLord, thisisMy covenant with them: My Spirit whoisupon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants descendants, says theLord, from this time and forevermore.

Luke 4:18-19 (NKJV)

18The Spirit of theLordisupon Me,Because He has anointed MeTo preach the gospel tothepoor;He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,To proclaim liberty tothecaptivesAnd recovery of sight totheblind,Toset at liberty those who are oppressed;19To proclaim the acceptable year of theLord.

My friend,God is working in you, bringing you to a point where you will be able to experience the fullness of His love and His power. He is blessing you Now! Dont wait for tomorrow or next month, accept your blessing now. Get ready because as our church is proclaiming, THIS IS THE TIME! This is a year where everything that you have lost, everything that the enemy took away from you, is coming back to you. God is returning back to you everything. Not just that; He is recompensing you double for your lost, for your pain, for your shame, for the rejection, isolation and embarrassment. See? the restitution is both in the spiritual and in the natural realms. So that you can be a display of the love of God.

Now when at home, go to your bible and open it on the book of the prophet Isaiah chapter 61, read it and meditate on itThat is a good manual to become a Prophet of the Lord.

Prophetic nuggets.The most important in prophesying is believing what the word of the Lord says for the benefit of our lives.Its wonderful to prophesy for others, but it is very important to prophesy for our own welfare, which affects your family and serve as a display of the faithfulness of God.The most you do this, the more your faith and authority on the word of God will increase.

Prophetic Activation, Session 1Turn your prayer into prophecy.In groups of three:Person # 1Present to God your need in prayer. (Phil. 4: 5-7)Person #2Based in a paragraph of scripture, you prophesy that the petition is granted. (Matt. 21:22).Person #3You declare the fulfilment of the word of God in the live of the petitioner. (Psalm 21:2)

Other activations to be given at the moment.

Your work:Read Chapter 61 of the book of the Prophet Isaiah, this is a manual to become a prophet of the Lord.What the Lord is revealing to you on this chapter?To whom this word is addressed to?Can you see yourself represented in anyone of these personages?

Your Journal for next week.Are you an encourager?Can you see yourself as an Isaiah 61:3 doer?Why you want to learn to prophesy?

You may be called next week to read your Journal about these points.

Time for our activation work shop.

NEXT WEEK:

Characteristic of prophecy.Scriptures related with the prophetic.New Prophetic Activations

I thank the Lord for everyone of you coming tonight to the Seminar, and I pray that the seed that was planted in your heart take root and germinate so then the Lord will keep watering it, give the increase and produce a wonderful harvest. I pray that all the revelatory gifting be activated in you, that you abilities, gifting, talent, and skills be sharpened in His workshop so you may become a powerful tool in the hands of our Master and b used as a Kingdom expander, a souls winner, a person who allows the virtue of Jesus Christ in you to come out and change the atmosphere around you.