Gift of Prophecy

Connections List
 * Prophet
 * The Prophets
 * HS Gifts
 * Distinguishing spirits
 * Spirits
 * Gift of Tongues

Scope
 * How to prophesy

Topics
 * Hearing and interpreting
 * Testing prophecies and prophets
 * Mech
 * Stories

SOPs towards hearing and interpreting/obeying prophecies
 * Joel 2 dreams and visions
 * book "Is that really you God?" by Lawrence Cunningham, YWAM
 * Multitude of sources
 * Bible
 * Advisors
 * Church history, books, tradition
 * Nudges
 * Surprises, coincidences, patterns
 * Circumstances
 * Emotional intelligence of self and situation
 * 1 Cor 14:32 spirits are under the control of the prophets - in other words they can hold their words in, turn off, turn on, etc.

To determine truth, test them
 * If prophecy comes true (mildly related: determining between spirits)
 * Test the spirits
 * 1 Thess 5:20 "Do not treat prophecies with contempt but test them all;" It is interesting that testing is opposed to contepmt. If we think it may have some validity, we test it. No space mentioned for not testing prophecies but believing them.

Mech/fx
 * 1 Thess 5:20 "Do not treat prophecies with contempt..."
 * 1 Cor 14:24 reveals secrets about people, unbelievers, towards conversion

Stories/e.g./verses
 * Bathsheba
 * Anninias and Sapphira
 * Terrible lives of the prophets
 * Fulfillment of old prophecies like Daniel
 * Use in validation of JC