ADVANCE PROPHETIC TRAINING

Raising the Generals of God

Henry Epps
Founder of the Harvest Nation

Founder Chef Overseer Henry Epps

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Advance Prophetic Training Lesson 5

The Anointing of God
The Prophetic Anointing Pt. 2

Luke 4:18 - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointing me to preach the gospel
to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and
recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those that are bruised, to preach the acceptable
year of the Lord.

Spiritual Application
How are we going to do that in the Spirit? We spoke about how what we call the baptism of the
Spirit is when the Spirit comes upon a person and what takes place is a link is produced between
the spirit within, the Holy Spirit dwelling in your human spirit. Now that the external anointing of
the Holy Spirit comes upon the body, there needs to come a breakthrough in between. When a
channel is created between the spirit and the body the spirit begins to pray.
Pray in Tongues
How does the Spirit begin to pray? In other tongues. Paul said, "When I speak in tongues my spirit
prays, but my understanding is unfruitful." It is your spirit linking directly with your body. It comes
when you reach that point of breakthrough.
Now there are a lot of people who do not understand this. They say, "Well, I have the Spirit of
God when I was saved. Why must I receive the baptism of the Spirit?" There are others who say,
"You don’t get the Spirit until the anointing has come upon you." We have these two extremes.
But you have the Spirit. You had the inner anointing from the moment you were born again. You
had your underground stream. But there needs to come a channel that is created. That channel that
is created is the ability to speak with other tongues.
If you want to be a prophet and you do not want to speak in other tongues, then you might as well
go home. I mean it. You can have a degree of revelation, but if you want the anointing to gush
forth; if you want to enter into New Testament prophetic power that goes beyond what the Old
Testament guys had, you are going to have to learn to cause the flow to take place, so that when
the anointing comes upon you there comes a gushing forth from within that you can speak forth
the power of God.
Create a Channel
That is all that speaking in tongues is. It is a channel. It is when you have your pipe sunk down.
And until your pipe is sunk down, you do not have the ability to tap into that internal resource that
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speech in English. But God has given tongues so that the mind does not stand in the way, because
tongues transcends the mind.
It is amazing, but when I started this prophetic series I ended up harping on tongues, and I am
doing it again. Could it be God is trying to say something here? Tongues is important. In the very
first assignment we gave in the Prophetic School you were told to go and pray in tongues for an
hour. Some people did this successfully and many complained. Many battled. Many even argued
and said, "It is stupid. I don’t like it. Why should we do it?" Well if you just want to have a trickle
out of your windmill it is up to you. But you need to sink down into the underground stream and
you need to set a firm channel into that underground stream if you want the power to gush forth.
Increase Your Capacity
Then if you want to increase the capacity of water that is going to come out of that pipe, you are
going to have to have a bigger pipe. You can have a thin little pipe, but there is only a certain
volume of water that can come through a thin pipe, per minute, per hour. It is going to take you a
lot longer to fill a bucket up with a thin pipe than it is going to take with a broad pipe. That is why
the water supplies to our cities are not sent to us in thin pipes. The thin pipe may supply your house
good enough, but if they had that thin pipe supplying everybody down the road you will have what
we have here in Mexico where the water supply drops right down and just trickles out of the tap.
Use the Word
You need a broader pipe. How do you broaden the pipe? Well, the pipe is the Word. Why? Because
what you receive out of your spirit can only be interpreted by the Word. It can only be understood
by the Word, because your spirit speaks in impressions and in pictures. We dealt with it in
Prophetic Listening, how to receive the impulses that come up out of your spirit. If you see a
picture coming up into your mind out of your spirit, how do you know what it means unless you
know the Word of God? Unless you know the symbols that are used in the Scriptures concerning
spiritual things, how will you understand?
It is the same as interpreting dreams. It is symbolic; it is pictures. You can only understand the
impressions that come up out of your spirit by the Word. And
because they are impressions that come to your mind, that do not come out of your spirit but come
from the enemy attacking from without, how can you know what comes from within and what is
coming from the enemy?
We are going to deal with this in quite a lot of detail when we look at Prophetic Deception, so I
am not going to go into it much here. You are going to have to be filled with the Word. But prophets
don’t like to do that.
"Well, I’m not a Teacher, I’m a Prophet. We will leave it to the Teachers to go and study all the
doctrines and study all the Scriptures."
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It gets to the point where I hear some Prophets saying, "What do we need the Bible for? I will just
wait on the Lord and He’ll give me a prophetic word?" You are treading on dangerous territory.
You are going to have one thin little clogged pipe that is not going to give out much water let me
tell you. You are going to have to be filled with the Word, Prophet of God, if you want to function
in the anointing, and if you want the prophetic anointing to pour forth. You are going to have to
be filled with the Word.
It is not enough just to learn about the prophetic ministry. It is not enough just to learn about the
gifts of the Spirit. It is not enough just to learn about the anointing. You had better be filled with
the Word, otherwise the anointing cannot flow, because the Spirit works through the Word. I will
look at it more as we go on.
You Can’t Hide It
Well now, you have sunk your pipe down. You have widened your pipe to increase the flow. Now
you had better put your windmill in place. You had better stick it where the wind is. You do not
put it down on the ground where the wind is blocked by the trees and the buildings. You do not
put it hidden away inside a building, inside a wall somewhere where nobody can see it.
You cannot hide a windmill. If you ride down the countryside you will see them. You will see
them standing proud and high in the sky. You cannot hide it. If you want to be used by God and
minister forth His power, you cannot do it in hiding. You are going to have to come out into the
open and make yourself available to the Lord. You are going to have to say, "Okay, Lord, I’ll do
it. I am prepared to stand firm, to stand bold, to stand out and be available for You to blow Your
wind on me when You choose to use me."
Yes, God trained His prophets in secret, and yes He has called you to a time of hiding and waiting
on Him. That was the time you learned to sink the pipe down. That was the time you did all your
construction work, widened the pipe and had it all set up. Now you had better put your windmill
in place, and you had better wave it high in the sky for the whole world to see.
You had better be available for God to use otherwise He is not going to use you. How can He use
you if you are hidden away? Nobody knows you are there. You are going to have to be where God
can put you in a situation where He can bring people across your path that you can minister to.
You are going to have to be available to the Lord. You are going to have to be able to say, "Father,
do with me as You please. Lord, use me as and when You want to use me."
Keep It Primed and Full
Once you have done that you need to keep your pipe primed and full of water. You have to keep
it that way. Most windmills and boreholes have a tank. The windmill blows and it fills the tank
first, and when you draw water you draw it from the tank. As soon as the level of the water in the
tank begins to fall the windmill kicks in again. When the tank becomes full the windmill engages
a clutch assembly, which causes the pump to stop turning. Then the wind can blow but the pump
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You have to be primed. You have to be filled up. Well you know that being filled with the Spirit
is great, but it does not last. You have barely arrived home after the meeting and it can be gone.
Try it. Just go and get into a fight with your husband or wife and it is gone. You have lost it. It is
like somebody burst the balloon. Somebody just opened the faucet and let all the water out. It is
gone. You are going to have to keep it filled up.
How are you going to do that? You are going to have to pray in tongues daily. You are going to
have to go in there and maintain that channel and get the water coming and free, otherwise it goes
stagnant in the pipe. Then when it comes time for the Spirit of God to move on you what comes
out is dirty rotten water for a while before it comes pure. You have some poor thirsty person
coming along for water, and you give them this gungy, horrible, smelly water. They do not want
to come near you again. They do not want to receive your ministry. You open your mouth to speak
the prophetic word and what comes out is all the junk that is in your mind, instead of what the
Spirit of God wants to say.
You need to spend time in the presence of the Lord praying in tongues. You need to spend time in
the presence of the Lord in praise and worship.
"Oh, Hallelujah, thank you Jesus. Praise you Lord," and you just let it flow. You let your pipe get
filled up. You let your pump be primed and ready to go. You are ready now for the wind to blow.
Getting to Where God Can Use You.
Now, how do we come to the place where God is going to use us? There are a lot of windmills out
there. Is God going to blow on yours? When is He going to blow on yours? And why should He
blow on yours? Well, we have this great big windmill set up here in the desert. There isn’t anybody
living within 100 miles. Nobody ever goes that way because it is a horrible place. And most of the
time when you go there that horrible smelly water comes out and you have to wait days for it to
come out because it is never used. Do you reckon anybody is ever going to come and visit? Is
anybody going to try and come and get water from there? Not unless there are none in another
1000 miles. Not unless they are really hard up.
Expect God to use you.
Listen, if you want God to use you, you are going to have to start desiring and expecting Him to
use you. You cannot go and arrange the circumstances. You do not run around with your windmill
trying to find a wind. Can you imagine that?
"Well, I have my windmill in the back of the truck."
"Where are you going?"
"Well, we are going out looking for a wind."
"Huh?"
There are a lot of people doing that. They are travelling thousands of miles to go and find the wind.
When you do that you have to connect your windmill to somebody else’s pipe and pump some of
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God will arrange the circumstances for ministry. You do not have to worry about that. You know
I have found that as I have desired to be used by the Lord I have cried out to Him and said, "Lord,
I have to be like Rachel was when she came to Jacob and said, ‘Give me children or I die.’ Lord
give me people to minister to.
Father use me. Lord use me to speak to the broken hearted, to the down trodden, to the discouraged.
Lord use me to speak forth healing to those that are sick and suffering. Use me to speak forth
deliverance to the captives. Oh Lord, please use me! Lord, there are people out there that hurting.
Oh Lord, I want to minister to them!" It must burn in you.
Desire to be Used
You say, "But what is the use? There’s nobody for me to minister to. I am not in ministry. They
never give me a chance to preach in church."
You do not have to go to church to find people in need. They are all around you. I have found so
often as I have cried out to the Lord; whether it be for the lost; whether it be for Christians with
problems; whether it be for those that are sick; as my heart burns and I cry out, suddenly I find one
day when I least expect it I bump into somebody with a need. Suddenly I find myself speaking to
somebody and the subject switches to salvation, and I end up sharing the gospel with them.
Suddenly I meet somebody, who needs a word of encouragement. God rises up in me and the wind
begins to blow and the water begins to gush forth, and God gives me an opportunity.
Make Yourself Available
You do not have to go and look for opportunities for ministry. The Lord will arrange them. All
you need to do is make yourself available. All you need to do is desire, desire, desire! Grow hungry.
Somebody has said, "Hunger for the Lord and for His power and for His glory and for His anointing
to be upon you."
The Anointing is For Others
Then make yourself available to pour that forth, because He is not going to give you the anointing
so you can fill up your own little tank; to go and have a look at it every day and say, "Wow, our
tank is looking good. Man our tank is really full. Hey, we have even more water in it. Our tank is
full! In fact, yesterday our tank became so full it started to overflow. We had water all over the
ground, there is so much water there. We’re loaded."
There are people all around you who are dying of thirst. The anointing is for us to give out. And
unless you have that burning desire in your heart you are not putting your windmill in place where
people can come to draw water.
Love is the Key
The Scripture says that "love is the key to all ministry." Why are you wanting the Lord to use you?
So that you can be announced to the community? So that everybody can be talking about you? So
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revelation from the Lord? So they can be inviting you to come and preach in their churches? Is
that your motivation? Then you are missing it.
"For God so loved the world," the Scripture says, "that He gave His only begotten Son
Why? So that He could show them what a big deal He was? No. Because He loved them. Love is
always the motivation. The Scripture says, "Follow after love and desire spiritual gifts." If that
motivation is not there, forget it. You are in it for the wrong reason.
Be Sensitive to Others’ Needs
To put yourself in a position where God can use you, you need to be sensitive to the needs of
others. I see so often, where you begin to chat with people, you meet people and you share with
them in conversation, and people just want to talk about themselves. Somebody said, quite aptly,
"Speak to somebody about himself and he will listen for hours."
Well, if you are a prophet and you want to be used by God, you are going to have to learn to speak
to somebody about himself. You are going to have to shut your mouth about what a wonderful
prophet you are. You are going to have to shut your mouth about how much Scripture you know;
about all your qualifications and your experiences; and you are going to have to just be sensitive
to the needs of other people. You are going to have to dare to ask somebody, "So how are you
feeling today?" at the risk that they are going to give you an organ recital.
Do you know what an organ recital is?
"Well you know (sob, sniff) I’m so sick. Please pray for me." (;-(
You Need to Care
We hate hypochondriacs. Sometimes a hypochondriac is just a person who suffers a lot because
they do not know how to trust God, because nobody has pointed
them in the right direction. Are you sensitive to the needs of other people? Do you care enough to
involve yourself in somebody else’s problems? How can you be used to speak a prophetic word to
that person if you do not care about their situation? How can you speak a word of upliftment and
encouragement if you do not care if they are in trouble? How can you speak a word of prosperity
and provision if you do not care that they are starving?
You had better start becoming sensitive to the needs of other people. That is how you put your
windmill up. You are going to have to put it up there where people can see it; where people are
going to come running to you and saying, "I need … I need … I need." It is horrible isn’t it, when
people always need. Nobody ever wants to give back to you again.
Be Other Oriented
Listen, you are getting from your underground stream. Forget about getting from other people.
Forget about going to have ministry from other people. You are getting it from your underground
stream. You are getting it from the Spirit of God, and He is giving it to you so that you can pour it
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people, and stop talking about yourself. Talk to somebody else about himself. Then you will be in
a position where your windmill is of some use.
Speak the Word
Then if you want the Lord to use you, you had better learn to speak the Word. The Scripture says
that "the Spirit confirms the Word with signs following." When Jesus sent His disciples out He
told them to go into all the world and preach the good news, not the bad news. Not the bad news
which says, "You’re going to hell you miserable rotten sinner!"
Preach the good news that says, "You do not have to go to hell anymore. You don’t have to be sick
anymore. You don’t have to battle in poverty anymore. You do not have to be broken down and
loaded down with mental illness (whatever that is) anymore. You don’t have to be plagued by the
guilt of the past anymore."
Preach Under the Anointing
That is good news. That is the Word. Haven’t you noticed that after the Word has been preached
in church, that is when they begin to pray for people, and the Spirit of God begins to move? Why?
Because the Word has penetrated. As the Word
has gone forth, and as the preacher has spoken forth the Word, he has poured out the anointing
through the words that have been spoken. The anointing has gone out and has begun to touch the
people, and their hearts are ready and prepared, and the power of God is there. And when people
come to the front they come, and God meets them because the preacher has been pouring out water
all the time that he has been preaching. Man, the place is a lake at the front. Come and jump in!
Do you want the river to flow in your church? Preach the Word under the anointing.
Respond to the Spirit
You are going to have to learn to respond to the Spirit. When the wind begins to blow upon you;
when you set up your windmill, you are going to have to learn to respond to that move of the Spirit
of God. Because when God moves upon you, He moves upon you suddenly and unexpectedly at
times. The wind begins to blow. The windmill begins to turn. The water begins to gush.
Suddenly panic hits you. It comes unexpectedly. You were sitting there minding your own business
and God gives you a prophetic word, and your heart begins to go ‘doof, doof, doof’. Suddenly a
picture comes to your mind that you did not expect, a prophetic word for somebody that you didn’t
expect. And God is saying, "There it is. Give it out. Minister it forth." Oh dear! You are going to
have to learn to respond to that revelation.
I remember when God first began to use me, it was easy when I was praying by myself. It was
easy to get revelations that I knew concerned me and concerned others in prayer. But now suddenly
you are in a meeting, you are sitting praying and sharing together or you are praying with
somebody and suddenly God gives you a revelation for that person.
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I remember one time we were praying for some people, a couple, and suddenly I saw a womb with
a baby in it. It was full term, getting ready to be born. I knew it was a little baby boy. I was praying
for this sister and suddenly I saw the baby. Now, what do you do? What do you do when it comes
suddenly? It would be different if I was praying for her to fall pregnant. There was no talk about
babies. Yes, I knew she hadn’t had a baby and she had desired one. But suddenly I saw the picture.
I stood there and I waited and the picture just came back. I stood there and waited
some more and said, "Lord, what do I do now?" And the picture came back. I was waiting for
someone else to give confirmation maybe, waiting for somebody to pray something or say
something, maybe a word of prophecy. There was just dead silence. I was it!
The Lord said, "Go and tell her what you saw."
"What if I am wrong?"
"Go and tell her what you saw."
"But Lord, it may be my imagination."
Have you ever imagined a full term baby in the womb? Try it. Close your eyes and see if you can
see it. The best you can do is try and remember a picture you saw somewhere in a book or in a
movie.
So I went to her and I said, "This is what the Lord shows me."
She looked at me and her eyes went big. And she said, "How did you know, I’ve been crying out
to the Lord every day about that?"
Well I learned a lesson. You see, I could have sat there and kept it to myself and told her later, but
you see she was not pregnant yet. God wanted me to give the word to say, "The Lord has heard
your prayer and He is going to answer your prayer and give you your heart’s desire." And He did
– a baby boy, just like I saw. It was exactly correct.
Faith is Needed
I found this happening a lot when God first began to use me. I would be praying with people or
would be sitting in a group praying, and I would get an impression or a picture or just a sense that
I need to pray for a certain person. You know what you do? You sit and wait for more. It is like
the first time God gave you a word of prophecy and He gave you a couple of words. You want
Him to give you the whole prophecy before you open your mouth in case you mess it up. It has to
be a step of faith. When the Spirit of God moves upon you, you have to respond. When the wind
begins to blow on your windmill, you had better engage the clutch, or disengage it as the case may
be. Start the pump turning. You are going to have to take action.
So I learned that when God began to do that, usually when He showed me that I needed to minister
to somebody, it did not work until I actually went to them; sometimes not until I actually put my
hand on them. Then it would gush. Sometimes I would just go so far as putting my hand on them.
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"But Lord, what do I say?"

"Go and minister."
"What is their need?"
"Go and minister. I will show you when you get there."
"What am I going to do when I get there?"
"Go and do it, and I’ll show you."
Now I do not know what is going to happen when I arrive there. As I lay my hands on a person
and begin to pray I may have a vision. I may have a discernment in the Spirit. I may get a word of
prophecy. It does not matter. As I move and act on the move of the Spirit of God, something
happens.
So sometimes I will just go and as I begin, "Thus saith the Lord …", off it goes. You just don’t
know what is going to happen. Sorry, that is the external anointing type. You have no control over
that. All you have to do is put your windmill in order and ready to pump. And when God moves
you, you just go there and you do what He tells you to do. When you do what He tells you to do
He will give you more. That is the faith part. That is the part you are going to have to do yourself.
Now when the water begins to gush forth, God begins to give you things in the Spirit. We have
looked at it in Prophetic Listening. We have looked at it in Prophetic Gifts, on how to flow in the
gifts and how different people receive revelation in different ways, so I am not going to duplicate
that. Whether God gives it to you by various different senses – by pictures, by prophecy, by an
audible voice – however you are receiving from the Lord, you are beginning to let that water gush
forth. There is somebody there in need that needs to be ministered to.
Use Wisdom
How are you going to give out the water? You do not just turn it up and let it flow.
You are going to have to put it in the right place. You are going to have to channel it to where the
garden is. You are going to have to move the hose to where the bucket is. You are going to have
to apply that anointing. You are going to have to apply that revelation. You are going to have to
apply that ministry in the Spirit specifically in the right way. To do that you are going to have to
use wisdom. That is another reason why you need to know the Word.
Mentoring is Good
It is another reason why you need to be mentored, so that you can let somebody else learn and
make the mistakes and you can learn from theirs, instead of opening your big mouth and putting
both feet in it. It is sometimes the best way to learn, but it is a lot easier when somebody else has
been there. And as you open your mouth and put your foot in they can say, "Uh uh uh! Foot out!"
It helps. If you want to be stubborn and do it your own way, go ahead and do it yourself. It is much
easier to learn from somebody else who has been there. It took them twenty years of toenail biting.
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You need to use wisdom when God gives you a revelation. You need to know what to do with that
revelation. Sometimes it will come at an inopportune time. It will come in a way that you are just
not quite sure what to do with it.
When I Met Daphne
I want to share this one. When I found myself divorced and without a wife I sought God for a new
one and He gave me Daphne. Our meeting was miraculous and we have told our story in other
places. The night that Daphne and I met I knew that I was going to minister to her. Whether she
was the right one for me or not I did not know. But I knew God had put us together that night and
I made myself available. I put my windmill up. I said, "Okay, Lord, I’m going to minister to this
woman, whether she is my wife or not. I am not going to waste this evening. If she is my wife,
that’s going to be wonderful. If she is not, she is going to have prophetic ministry even if she hasn’t
had it before.
So, after we had been out to a church service and we’d come home we began to wait on the Lord
and we began to pray. And as we began to pray God began to show me things. He gave me a word
of prophecy for her. I knew what He was saying, but I had to put it in such a way that it didn’t
sound too obvious. He was effectively saying, "Okay, this is the guy, this is the woman, this is it!
I have put you together." You do not prophesy that, "Thus saith the Lord, ‘You shall be my wife
and you shall marry me.’ " You cannot do that.
But the Lord gave me a Scripture from the book of Esther where Mordecai said to Esther, "How
do you know that God has not brought you to the Kingdom for such a time as this? Esther you are
in the right place at the right time. This is it. I’ve put it together." So God gave me a prophetic
word which said just that. Well, I hoped she understood what I was saying. I knew what I was
saying. The Lord gave me wisdom to present it in a way that was not imposing.
She had told me during the evening as we had talked about ourselves and our lives, that her
previous late husband had been unable to have children so she had never had a child before. They
had wanted to adopt a child and that never came through. That is all that she said. And as we began
to pray I saw her holding a baby in her arms.
Well now, the Lord had told me a good time before that, and I had already shared it with my
children, that I knew that my new wife was going to be young enough to want a child and that we
must be prepared and open to receive another member in the family once I remarried. I knew it. I
was ready for it. I saw her holding a baby. I knew it was going to be my baby. So what do I tell
her? "Thus saith the Lord, ‘This man shall be the father of your child …’ ". You cannot do it. You
have to use wisdom.
In my mind I was saying, "Lord, that’s all very well. I have three daughters that I have custody of.
Is this woman going to be able to handle them? She has never even had kids before." And I saw
the Lord giving her something, as I often see Him doing in the Spirit, giving somebody something.
I don’t even remember what it was, but I knew what the Lord was saying. It was, "I will give her
the grace and the ability to do what needs to be done and to handle the responsibility."
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So I am walking up and down and I do not know what I am going to do with this knowledge. I said
to her, "The Lord’s showing me things and I cannot tell you now." I had never had this happen to
me before.
I said, "Lord, what do I do with this?"
He said, "Tell her what you saw."
I walked up to her and said, "Tell me, do you still have a deep desire to have a child?"
She took one look at me and she just broke out into tears. She said, "How did you know?"
Well, I did not know, but God knew. I could not tell her it was going to be my child. I said, "The
Lord’s going to give you the desires of your heart. You will have a child. I see you holding a baby
in your arms." I could not tell her the other part. It was not the time yet.
You are going to have to use wisdom with the knowledge of the revelation that God has going to
give you as a Prophet. Do not just open your big mouth and don’t jump to conclusions. Rather
hold back. We will share more on that as we go on.
How To Deliver a Revelation in The Public Meeting
If God gives you a word in the church in a public meeting, specially if it is not your church, and
even more so if it is your church; if God gives you a word that perhaps relates to the body, to the
church generally, you had better be careful opening your mouth and giving forth a word without
finding out whether it sits well with the leadership of the church. This is a difficult one. A lot of
prophets have erred on this one, and Pastors as a result have put the squeeze on them. They have
said, "Okay, you don’t prophesy anything without putting it through me first, or putting it through
somebody in the Church who is authorized to check prophesies out before they are spoken."
It is not the Scriptural pattern. The Scriptural pattern is that a person will stand up to speak and the
others shall judge publicly. It is because of abuse; because of the fact that these days there are more
Prophets than others – we have more Chiefs than Indians sometimes – because people have not
learned to use wisdom. A lot of the time it is because people have not been trained how to use the
prophetic ministry. That is why we have this Prophetic School, to teach you how to do these things
right. That is why we are speaking about this.
Prophesy at right time
You need to use wisdom. It has nothing to do with the fact that the Pastor lords it over you and
that you have to be under his authority. It does not give him the right to reject a word that God has
given you, that is a genuine word from Him. But there could be a time and a place to speak that
word, and you need to give the
leadership the right to reject the word before you speak it forth. If they do choose to reject the word
they take the consequences of rejecting it. I have had that very thing happen to me very early in
my experience. I perhaps did not use wisdom at that time either. I tried to stand up and speak a
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Be Orderly
Use wisdom. If God gives you a revelation He intends you to do something about it, but He does
not necessarily intend you to do it now! If God gives you a prophetic word in the middle of the
preacher’s sermon you do not interrupt him.
"Just hold it, I have a word from the Lord. Shut up, please! Thus saith the Lord …" You don’t do
that. I would not try and do that.
Sometimes people break out in a message in tongues in the middle of a sermon. No. "God is not
the God of disorder," Paul says. Use wisdom, Prophet. And if you are an emotionally expressive
Prophet as most Prophets are, you had better learn to control your emotions.
Don’t Force Your Ministry
Make sure that when you are going to minister to somebody that the person wants to be ministered
to. I have seen people in meetings, especially when you have small meetings like home meetings.
You have the prophetic types. They have itchy fingers.
"Who can I lay my hands on tonight? Who can I prophesy over? Oh, yes, we have that new guy
sitting there," and you eye him the whole night.
"Lord, give me a word for him."
You just cannot wait to get your hands on him. You just can’t wait to go over and say, "Thus saith
the Lord …" and if you do not have the guts or opportunity to go over to him personally, then you
are going to give a public prophecy to speak it to him.
The Holy Spirit is pictured in various symbols, and the Lord is pictured in various symbols. The
Holy Spirit came down on Jesus as a dove, and a dove is often the symbol of the Holy Spirit. A
dove is a very tender, gentle, and easily frightened bird. It is not aggressive. It is not a vulture. If
you want to be anointed by the Spirit
of God, the anointing is not the anointing of a vulture.
He is as meek as a lamb, gentle as a dove. He leads as the Shepherd. He is not the butcher that
drives the sheep to the slaughterhouse. As the Shepherd, He goes before the sheep and He woos in
love. He does not hammer in condemnation. Don’t you dare take the prophetic ministry and use it
as a whip against others, especially to cover the sin in your own life. It is so easy to speak
judgement and condemnation on others and make yourself look good. You are going to have to
use wisdom with the prophetic anointing when it comes upon you.
Don’t Act Under Pressure
You must not act impulsively, and you must never act under pressure. The Holy Spirit will never
pressure you to do anything. He will tug at you. He will woo you. He will gently tug at you. The
Spirit of God will move upon you, and He will nudge you gently again and again and again. It is
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I have heard prophets say, "But God told me to say it. I had to do it! I knew the Pastor was going
to oppose me. I knew the people wouldn’t like it. I knew they would hate me for it. But I had to
do it. I would have disobeyed the Lord if I didn’t do it."
Nonsense. The Lord never forces you to do anything. The Scripture says in 1 Corinthians 14:32:
"And the spirits of the Prophets are subject to the Prophets, for God is not the author of confusion,
but of peace."
Yes, you need to obey what God has given you to speak. You need to obey in a spirit of gentleness
and meekness, and love and wisdom. And you need to know how to minister forth what God has
given you. Do not take your own aggression and your own impulsiveness and use the Holy Spirit
as an excuse to do what you wanted to do. You just could not wait for the Lord to give you that
word for this miserable, rotten church.
You see, that is why Pastors have to put the squeeze on Prophets. I am afraid it is true. You are
going to have to learn wisdom before God is going to trust you to pour forth His water.
Be Sure of What You’ve Seen
And if you are not sure what the Lord has shown you, don’t wing it. If you are not sure of what
God showed you; if you have a picture and you are not sure what the picture means, do not go and
do an impromptu interpretation on the run and hope it is right. You might get away with that in
dream interpretation, but you are not going to get away with it in a prophetic word.
I am sure you have heard cases of Prophets who saw a picture as they looked on somebody and
misinterpreted the picture. They gave a prophetic word and said, "The Lord says this and that …"
and it was wrong. If you are not sure what the picture means rather share the picture. Maybe the
person understands what the picture means even though you don’t. Receive confirmation first if
you are not sure. Just share.
"Brother as I’ve been standing here I see this bag hanging over your head. Now I am not sure what
it means. Perhaps you know what it means, but I just want to share that with you. God wants to
minister to you, and He wants to meet your need. And if you need special ministry I will pray with
you afterwards, or you can come forward now …" whatever you want to do. But if you are not
sure, do not open your mouth and put your foot in it again, because you could destroy somebody’s
life.
Use Boldness
Apart from using wisdom in what to do with this water, you need to use boldness. There are a lot
of Gideons out there. The Lord tells them what to do and their knees start to shake.
"Oh Lord, I will do it if you give me confirmation. Lord, make the fleece wet and the ground dry
and I’ll do it Lord."
"Okay, make the fleece wet and the ground dry."
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"Okay, give it to the guy!"

"Um, well Lord, can’t you give me one more?"
Do you know people like that? They are too scared to make decisions. They are too scared to speak
out. They are sitting with the revelation and God said, "Go," and they sit there the whole night
trying to pluck up enough courage. They go home that night and feel depressed and discouraged
and know they have disobeyed God, because they did not speak what God wanted them to speak
because they were afraid of what people would think. Hey, you are going to have to be bold.
"But what if they throw stones at me?"
Then you are stoned.
"What if they say nasty things about me?"
Then you are criticized. Hey, you should have made that choice before you started on this thing.
Every Ministry Operates By Faith
You need to take a step of faith. You are going to have to faith this thing, because every gift and
every ministry that God has given operates by faith. And if you have not learned faith as a Prophet
you are not going to excel in your prophetic ministry. That is why part of the prophetic preparation
and part of the prophetic training often will mean that God will lead you into situations where
things that always just panned out nicely before do not work anymore. Where finances just flowed
easily before, suddenly they are blocked. Where everything fell into place and you never had
problems, suddenly your whole life goes wrong.
"Oh, what is going on? Lord what are you trying to do? Are you punishing me because I was a
sinner?"
No, He is teaching you faith. He is teaching you to exercise and to develop the faith that is within
you. He is teaching you to learn to use your faith, because it is going to take faith to stand up and
say, "Thus saith the Lord …" Maybe you are going to stand and prophesy over somebody and God
is going to say, "Thus saith the Lord, ‘I have called you from when you were a child. I have
prepared you and I have raised you up. And you will do signs and wonders, and you will heal the
sick, and you will raise the dead, and you will go to places you have never gone to before.’ "
"What if I’m wrong?"
Well you had better learn. You had better learn to step out in faith and give weaker prophecies
than that first before you can give stronger ones. You had better learn to give the nicer ones that
just say, "Thus saith the Lord, ‘I have seen your heart, and I care.’ " If you do not have the faith to
give those ones you are not going to have the big ones.
"Oh but it’s not fair. The Lord gives that person such wonderful prophecies. I would love to
prophesy like Sister So-and-So."
You can. She has just more guts. She doesn’t care what anybody thinks. She is like a child that
learns to walk, and stumbles and falls and gets bruises, but stands up and goes again. You are going
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to have to be bold if you want God to use you. You are going to have to have the audacity to
believe that the water that is pouring forth from you, somebody else is going to need and want,
and it is going to help them and quench their thirst. You are going to have to be bold enough to
actually believe that.
Believe in Yourself
You are going to have to bold enough to believe that when you preach somebody is going to want
to borrow the tape or even buy it, and pay money for it to listen to it.
"Who would buy something that I preached?"
You had better be bold enough to believe that somebody will. You had better be bold enough to
offer it for sale. I know that one. It is going to take boldness. You are going to have to believe in
what God has put in you. You are going to have to believe in the anointing of God that is in you,
because if you do not believe in it, do you think the other people are going to? If you do not believe
that God is using you, do you think you are going to fool anybody else?
"I don’t want what you have if you don’t even have confidence in yourself. You can keep it. Hey,
if you don’t even want to drink your own water, do not come and palm it off on me."
Don’t Apologize for Yourself
Don’t apologize for your presence or for the revelation that you receive. Do not ever apologize for
being God’s spokesman. Don’t ever stand up and say, "Well, I’m so useless, but I will just give
this forth."
Everybody is going to say, "We agree, you are useless. Shut up!"
Be bold. I stand here in humility, but I speak for the King of Kings, "Thus saith the Lord God
Jehovah Himself …" It is His word. You are speaking for the King of Kings. You do not have to
apologize for Him, because you carry the insignia of His authority. He chose you and He called
you, and He trained you and prepared you to set you up as a windmill. He is not afraid to stick you
out there for the whole world to ride by and say, "There is a water source. I am going to go get
some water there." You had better be confident enough and bold enough to lift up high and show
yourself to the world and say, "I may just be an ugly old windmill, but we have some water here."
Handling Negative Responses
Now here is a difficult one. What happens when you try and pour forth the water and people won’t
drink it? What happens when somebody responds negatively to your revelation? That is a tough
one. Has it ever happened to you? You are praying with somebody and God gives you a picture.
He gives you a revelation and you are sure of it. You know that this is of God and you share it with
the person. You say, "God shows me this. Can you identify with that?" and they say, "No, I don’t
think so. No, I do not know what you’re talking about. No that has never happened to me."
You could have been wrong, yes. You have to be prepared for that possibility. And if you are
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I’m sorry, but this is what God showed me. Can you make anything of it?" It could be that what
you really touched on is a sore point in the person’s life.
I remember once praying for somebody. He was supposed to be sick. I did not know what was
wrong with him. I began to pray and I saw this blood vessel and it was blocked. There was a clot
in a vein, and it was quite clear. I stopped and I said, "What is wrong with you, brother?"
"Oh," he said, "Yes I’ve had trouble at times with my heart and whatever, and …"
I looked at him and I thought, "Wow, I must have missed that one. I never saw his heart."
Then his daughter said to me, "What did you see?"
I said, "I saw a blocked blood vessel."
She said, "You’re perfectly correct!"
He had a blocked blood vessel in his leg or something. Now I do not know why he did not want to
talk about it. Maybe he had been trusting God for healing and he did not want some prophet
coming, I don’t know. But it threw me for a moment. I thought I had missed it, but I had not missed
it. I had seen correctly. And only as I shared that picture of what I had seen did it come out.
Listen, do not be swayed by negative responses to revelations. But by the same token, don’t be so
arrogant as to say, "Well, I know I was right. You had better acknowledge it." Be bold and
confident enough to stick with it if you know that God gave it to you, and confident enough to
withdraw and give the person a bit of breathing room if they don’t want to acknowledge it. But
don’t let it knock you off to the point where you begin to lose confidence or you are afraid to open
your mouth next time you have a revelation in case you are wrong again. You are going to have
those kinds of responses if you have not had them already. It is going to be part of your training,
you will see.
Handling Rejection
Sometimes you have outright rejection. You want to start ministering inner healing to somebody
and they do not believe in inner healing. Hey, I used to preach against inner healing. I guess if
somebody had come to try and minister inner healing to me and said, "I see you have some hurts
there and God wants to minister inner healing to you," I would have said, "Baloney, that’s
psychological garbage!"
So the Lord used guile on me. He sent some guy to me who did not even know what inner healing
was. He just knew how to flow in the Spirit, and he said, "I don’t know what is going on, but I
have this glowing heat in my hand here, and I want to pray for you."
I said, "Well, okay, go pray for me."
He prayed for me and the power of God hit me. Something happened and I started laughing. I did
not understand what had happened and he didn’t understand what had happened. None of us knew
what had happened, but something had happened.
He said, "I don’t know what happened, but God said He has taken a weakness out
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of you and He has put a strength back in its place."

I said, "What are you talking about?"
He said, "I haven’t a clue."
Well, we both learned what inner healing was because it happened. You know what it is like when
you have to go tearing all the pages out of your notes; you know all the ones that are wrong? It
really messes your theology up, I tell you, it really does. You are going to have people like that.
They are not going to believe in what you have to minister, and yet God has given you revelation.
Again, use wisdom and be bold and just go ahead. Just share the pictures that God gives you. Just
speak the word; touch the person at the point of their need. Stay away from doctrines they are
going to stumble over. Just offer somebody a ministry in love. They will receive it, and they will
be ministered to. And when the Spirit of God comes upon them and the anointing hits them they
will change their tune. They will start to rethink and they will start to click, "Now hold it. Maybe
what I believe isn’t right after all. Maybe what I believed all my life was wrong." Let God do that.
Do not try and do it in one little ministry session.
Be Humble
You must be bold as a Prophet, but you must also be humble. Do not ever claim to be infallible. I
have seen Prophets that want to stick with their revelations and they are so full of obvious
deception that it is so glaringly obvious and is sticking out like a sore thumb. But they will stick
to the revelation.
"God showed me that. I know it was God. I heard this voice booming out of the sky. It was the
Lord, I knew it was. I was driving along in my car and the Lord said, ‘Go to the Mall.’ When I
arrived at the Mall God said, ‘Go buy a new TV.’ I knew it was God. I don’t know why He wanted
me to buy a TV. I didn’t need one. I already had one. It was expensive, but I knew it was God. I
had to obey."
Old and New Testament Prophets Different
Have you heard those before? I have. No, you are not infallible as a Prophet. We have looked at
that in deception. Realize that you are going to make mistakes. There is a difference here, between
the Old Testament Prophet and the New Testament Prophet. The Old Testament Prophet did not
make mistakes, except deliberately. The reason being that the Old Testament Prophet only
operated
under the external anointing. And when the external anointing came it was controlled by God and
by God alone. All the Prophet was, was the delivery boy. He just spoke forth what God gave him.
So, when you had false Prophets in the Old Testament they were Prophets who spoke deliberate
prophetic words that they knew would tickle the ears of the hearer, and they knew that the anointing
of God was not on them. But when the anointing of God came on them they would speak by the
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was not true, you could tell straight away it was not of God, and therefore that person was classed
as a false Prophet.
People are mixing up Old and New Testament Prophets. I still want to get to dealing with that
subject, and God has prevented me from dealing with it until right at the end. I have had to lay so
much groundwork for all you Prophets out there who think you are called to be an Elijah; who
think that you are called to be an Old Testament Prophet; to speak judgment; to try and act like an
Old Testament Prophet. You know about the external anointing, but you do not know anything
about the internal anointing. You have never learned to tap what is in your spirit, to pour out love
and grace as Jesus intends the New Testament Prophet to do. We will deal with that later.
When you come to minister as a Prophet do not try and exalt yourself. Exalt the Lord that is in
you. You are not there to make a name for yourself. That is true humility. True humility is not the
opposite of boldness. You need to understand that true boldness can only come from true humility.
True humility is a total confidence in yourself in the Lord; a total confidence to the point where if
you make a mistake it is very easy to say, "I’m sorry. I was wrong." Total confidence to the point
where if you do not make a mistake you can say, "I’m sorry. I was right." But it does not affect
you, you see, because it is not you. It is the Lord in you. You are simply His spokesman. You are
simply speaking forth His words.
Ministering the Anointing
Now I want to look at how we minister forth the anointing. We have looked at general principles.
You can minister forth the anointing to a crowd or to a group, or you can minister forth the
prophetic anointing to an individual. Unfortunately today’s churches have been built up in such a
way that the emphasis has always been on the public meeting. So the idea and the aspirations we
all have, is to stand up there behind the pulpit.
"I am tired of sitting in the pews. I’m tired of being a little nobody in church. Every now and then
God gives me a prophetic word then I have to go and write it out and give it to somebody else to
approve. And if I’m lucky and they like the word, maybe I will be able to read it out."
Ministering in Public
There has been too much emphasis on the public meeting, and it is only the big names who make
it to the pulpit. It is only the big names who can travel around and preach to the crowds that are
considered true Prophets of God and moving in the ministry. Let me tell you, the majority of your
ministry as a Prophet is not going to be in the public meeting, it is going to be to individuals. I am
going to look at both of those before we finish this message. In fact I am going to look more at the
individual than I am at the crowd, but let’s look at the crowd ministry very quickly.
Perhaps many of you reading this cannot identify this because you have not stood behind a pulpit
yet to preach. Maybe you have hardly even had any opportunity to speak publicly. Perhaps if you
are a lady you have spoken at some ladies meetings. If you are a guy perhaps you have spoken at
a youth meeting or at a home meeting or something like that. Perhaps you cannot fully identify, so
I am just giving you a couple of principles to identify with when you have the opportunity, because
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If you are going to move into the prophetic office that God has called you to, you are going to have
the opportunity to stand up and speak to a group. And you need to picture it and visualize it and
desire it until God fulfills it in your life. You need to use the anointing in preaching.
Prophetic Preaching
What is preaching? That is when somebody stands up and gives a sermon, right; reads it off their
notes? Did you know that preaching can be prophetic? The Lord taught me this very early in my
experience. I started out my ministry as a Teacher. I was a very successful Teacher. Wherever I
went my ministry was successful and people invited me back. I prepared my messages all nicely
and homiletically. I need to teach some of you Prophets a bit of homiletics because you need to
have a track to run on if you are going to teach in any way. But there are times that God will say,
"I want you to preach prophetically tonight." That is one of those times that are like when the Lord
says, "Go and speak a word of prophecy. Go and pray for that person. Open your mouth and speak
and I will fill it."
You say, "Well, what must I speak on," and He says, "I’ll tell you when you open your mouth."
Or He will tell you what to speak on and He will not tell you what to say about it until you open
your mouth. Well, sometimes that is going to happen when you preach.
You say, "Well, I can go about five minutes in prophecy." If you are an expressive you can talk.
You can talk your way round. You can flower it, paint the pictures, add Scriptures. You can stretch
it out. You can give a good long prophecy there. Try standing up behind the pulpit and doing that.
Hey, how do you think I manage to go for an hour or two at a time? It does not come from my
notes, let me tell you. Why? Because you need to speak by the Spirit. You need to speak out what
rises up out of your spirit as a Prophet.
Personal Experience
I remember the first time that God began to do this to me. It was in fact the last church that I
pastored, or propheted. It turned out I was not really much of a Pastor because I was already
flowing right in the prophetic ministry. God gave me the opportunity to minister as a Prophet. So
when it came to Sunday meetings and I had to preach, I just wanted to prepare those good old
homoletical teaching messages. And I said, "Lord, give me a word and He said, "Okay," and He
gave me a Scripture reference.
I said, "Lord, I want a word."
He said, "That’s your word. Take that Scripture and preach on it."
"But Lord, what do I preach on it?"
He said, "You will know when you stand up."
Well you know, people are used to you preaching for at least thirty minutes. Have you ever tried
preaching for thirty minutes on one verse? You have to do a lot of talking. You tend to be a bit
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But I learned to stand up and open my mouth and He fulfilled that Scripture that says, "Open your
mouth wide and I will fill it."
Why? I will tell you why. Because I had already been in the ministry for many years. I had already
studied the Word. I was already full of the Word. I was already full of the knowledge of the Spirit
and of the things of the Lord and the spiritual life.
How long does it take you to prepare a message? Not ten minutes, but ten years. Not twenty
minutes, but twenty years. That is why I can preach for so long now. I have lots of years. You are
having all of them loaded out on you now.
I learned to open my mouth, taking the track. All He gave me was a Scripture or a principle or a
topic and He said, "There’s your road. Go and walk on it." And as I would walk He would give
me the next step. It would be like walking down a road where you can only see a couple of feet in
front of you. Now you just walk towards how far you can see, and as you get there you see the
next few feet that are in front of you. You keep walking until you hit a wall and you stop. It is that
simple, really.
Prophecy
That is how you prophesy isn’t it? It is the way I prophesy. I start speaking, "Thus saith the Lord
…" and here we go, and off we go, and then (stop). That’s it. Shut up. Some people try and smash
through the wall at the end and start talking nonsense, and you hear that their prophecy has gone
beyond what God intended. They start climbing the wall, man. And you feel like climbing the wall
because they are talking rubbish. You had better learn to step out when God tells you to step out
and shut up when He says, "It’s over."
Follow the Rabbit
Well, that is how you are going to have to learn to preach as a Prophet. You are going to have to
learn to speak. And if you are going to be tied to your notes what is going to happen is while you
are preaching, while you are walking down this road, you are just going to see this rabbit running
across the road and the Lord is going to say, "Chase it." And you are going to dash off after the
rabbit, and the rabbit is going to here and he is going to go there, and you are going to follow the
rabbit. Suddenly you are going to wonder where the road is and try and go back to it. Forget it, the
Lord told you to follow the rabbit.
This goes against homoletics. They tell you not to follow the rabbits. If you are going to be a
Prophet, the homoletics do not work. Follow the rabbit. He is leading you to the burrow where the
Lord wanted you to be, because there is somebody sitting in the meeting now that has a problem;
that has a need, that was not in your sermon.
Meeting Potential Needs
That is how you minister as a prophet when you are preaching. And if you are going to minister to
people publicly, if you have a hundred people out there you are ministering to, you have a hundred
potential needs you are going to minister to. You are not going to have time to deal in detail with
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you are ministering. And it is possible that God will give you revelation. You are probably not
going to have time to call everybody forward.
Have you ever tried praying for a healing line of a hundred people? I have never prayed for that
many people, but I have dealt with at least twenty or thirty at a time and it takes a while, and it
drains you and you are exhausted – if you minister prophetically that is. It is easy to do the
evangelistic thing. Just (pop, pop, pop) and see them all fall. Then you can walk out and think you
have done your job.
Personal Ministry Needed
If you are going to minister as a Prophet you are going to have to spend a few minutes with that
person to get revelation for them; to speak healing; to speak revelation; to speak a word of
direction; to give them something specific from the Lord. You cannot do that in a public meeting.
That is why the public meeting cannot be the main thrust of your ministry, because you are not
going to give the right amount of attention to a person.
Call Out the Pictures
The easiest thing to do if you are ministering publicly is to learn to identify the pictures that God
gives you and to call them out. A lot of the great healing evangelists like Kathryn Kuhlman started
that kind of thing, where they would just stand up in the meeting and say, "God is healing
somebody of cancer over there. Somebody over there, a blind eye is opening," and she would just
call it forth.
Well, the Lord can do the same for you as a Prophet. It is possible for you to call out the people
that God is ministering to. It is possible for you to speak out prophetic words over individuals
while they are out there. Just a word of warning – do not ever embarrass somebody in a public
meeting.
Individual Ministry in a Public Meeting
I remember the first time I went into a public meeting and saw a Prophet calling people out. I had
a mixture of emotions. On the one hand there was the kind of feeling that said, "Ooh, I wish he
would call me out and tell me that God’s called
me." Nobody ever did. I used to fight with the Lord about this one. I said, "Lord if you have called
me to such a big ministry, surely you can get this Prophet to call me out?"
The Lord said, "What do I have to make the Prophet call you out for? I have already told you. Are
you deaf?"
Don’t Reveal People’s Sins
I was trying to be like a Gideon, you see. If you are going to call somebody out, you had better
call them out to minister to them, not to condemn them or to embarrass them or humiliate them in
a public meeting. When God starts to reveal to you the sins of people and some of the secrets in
their lives, God has entrusted you with somebody else’s secrets. You had better not be a gossip. If
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His secrets as a Prophet. You had better not try and use those revelations to make yourself look
good in a public meeting by exposing other people’s sins.
If God reveals to you something that needs to come out, call the person forward and speak to them
by themselves, or generalize it and say, "God shows me there is somebody here tonight. You are
involved in an adulterous affair and God says you must break it off." By all means speak that word,
but don’t point out and say, "You there, lady with the hat on. You are involved in an affair with a
guy at work and you’d better sort it out." I don’t care if God showed you that. Do not do it!
An Example from Jesus
You use wisdom in a public meeting. The Lord Jesus never did that to people. He condemned
those self-righteous hypocritical Pharisees who were standing up and trying to do that; the ones
who threw the woman in adultery at His feet in the public place and said, "She’s an adulteress. She
needs to be stoned." And instead of humiliating her, the Lord humiliated them by writing in the
sand and saying, "Okay wise guys. You super-spiritual heroes. The first one of you that is without
sin, come on, throw the stone."
You know what, He publicly revealed their sin, and even then how did He do it? Well I heard
somebody suggest this once. I thought it was a good idea. When Jesus sat down and He wrote in
the sand, what did He write? Somebody suggested that Jesus actually wrote in the sand and He
wrote, "Adultery – November 25th 1954." And the guy who did it took one look and said, "I am
out of here." It is just a fancy thought.
Jesus did not publicly reveal their sin, but yet He did. You see, God wants you to expose sin. God
has revealed it to you for a purpose, and the purpose is to minister to that person to bring them to
a point of repentance. Again it is a matter of using wisdom, especially in the public meeting.
Private Exposure of Sin
Now, if you are dealing with a person in private, that is different, but the Lord may actually want
you to say that. You know what the Lord is usually going to say? He is going to say, "You’re
caught in this adulterous relationship and I understand, and I care, and I love you both. But it is
going to destroy you. I want you to be free."
It is going to minister in grace and in love and He is going to bring the person out of that sin. I
know because I have dealt with that kind of situation. I have dealt with that exact kind of situation.
And when I have shared with the person the love of the Lord and said, "The Lord understands. He
doesn’t condemn you," the person’s eyes nearly popped out of his head.
He said, "How can you say that?"
I said, "Because Jesus says so."
It had an effect, let me tell you. He was waiting for me to slap him. "You miserable, rotten sinner!
How can you do that to your wife?"
Use wisdom and love, and especially in a public meeting, be very careful about exposing other
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Individual Ministry
Let’s go on to the individual before we end. You can use the prophetic ministry to minister to
unbelievers and you can use it to minister to Christians. You can minister prophetically to an
unbeliever. The prophetic ministry is not for the world. It is not for unbelievers. The prophetic
ministry is not meant to predict who is going to be the next president. It is not going to predict
which country is going to invade which country and what war there is going to be. I am not saying
God cannot reveal that. If God reveals that He reveals it so that the Prophet can tell the church to
pray, not so they can publicize it in the latest newspaper and be known as this great Prophet who
predicted the downfall of the Government.
Ministry to Unbelievers
But God can use you, through the prophetic ministry, to minister to unbelievers. And God can
reveal to you a person’s sin and their involvement with Satan, either to bring about a conviction
of that sin or to show the person, "God knows about your sin and He still loves you and He still
cares. He died for you on the cross of Calvary to purge you of that sin and to forgive you." It is so
easy to condemn.
I remember reading recently about a famous convicted murderer that was in prison, who came to
know the Lord. Now he preaches and says, "If God can forgive me, who’s a murderer, He can
forgive you." It is easy to condemn. If God gives you revelation of a person’s life it is to minister
His grace, not condemnation. There is a whole world out there ready to condemn and stab you in
the back. You do not need to add to that. People have seen enough of that. They have had it
wherever they have gone. They want somebody who says, "I can see your sin. I can see what a
miserable rotten sinner you are. But I love you." There is nobody else out there that is telling them
that.
Ministering to Sickness in Unbelievers
God can give you a revelation of sickness and disease in that person to show that He cares. I
remember fairly recently speaking to a man who had been suffering with his heart. He kept having
tests and they could not find out what was wrong. He kept having problems with his heart. And
my heart burned. I said, "Lord, I want to minister to this guy."
The next time He came around the Lord said, "I want you to pray for him. I want you to pray for
his heart." Well, I was not sure if he was going to be open to that or not. I had made it clear to him
what I was and what I believed. I said to him, "I’d like to do something with you before you go
today. I would like to pray for you that God would touch your heart."
He said, "Sure."
So we bowed our heads and I just put my hand on him and man the anointing came. The wind
blew. I began to pray and the Lord showed me his heart. I could see it so clearly. I could see that
the one main blood vessel coming out of the heart was kind of crimped and semi-blocked so that
the blood would not flow out clearly.
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blood vessels coming out of your heart is constricted and blocked. I am going to pray for you that
God is going to sort that out."
I saw him a while later and he said to me, "You know what? You were right." He said, "They went
and gave me some more tests and they discovered one of the blood vessels in my heart has been
clogged."
Well I do not know what effect I had on him spiritually or his commitment to the Lord. But I
ministered forth and reached out and touched him with the love of the Lord. God can use you to
minister to unbelievers as well as to Christians as a Prophet.
Revelation of the Future
God can give you revelation concerning the future for an unbeliever. As you are beginning to
minister to them God can give a revelation. He can give a promise to show that they are on a path
to destruction. He can give a revelation that says, "If you will turn from that path of destruction,
this is what God has for you. You can be blessed and you can make it through." God can do that
for an unbeliever because He cares for every single person, believers and unbelievers alike. So as
a Prophet you can minister even in evangelism. Use the prophetic anointing and bring

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