Prophetic Guidelines

Prophetic Guidelines 

These are the rules we give at Transformed Life Church to encourage the best possible exercise of prescience in our congregation. Rules are incorporated for both the prophets and the people accepting the prediction. 

Three Foundational Principles 

 The main role of prophetic service is to illuminate, empower, and comfort God's kin 

 All devotees are admonished to genuinely look for after otherworldly blessings, particularly prescience 

 a personal prophetic word  must be judged/weighed by the collection of Christ 

Peaceful Oversight and Prophecy 

To keep up appropriate convention with tolerability and request, we require that all prophetic service be led just in the nearness and under the bearing of our Pastors or Ministry Heads. In occurrences where prescience happens in little gathering settings (i.e. Life Groups, Classes and Ministry gatherings) and a Pastor or Ministry Head is absent, the prescience ought to be composed and submitted for thought by either the Pastors or a Ministry Head. Regularly our Pastor and Ministry Heads will have the capacity to furnish minding contribution to our lives as to the prescience we get, especially with respect to the planning of specific words being satisfied. It ought to be noticed that individual prescience does not trade the requirement for 'peaceful' advice and oversight, nor does accepting a substantial, bona fide word from the Lord give one permit to end up noticeably free or profoundly predominant. Prescience is one way we can know the will of God. Peaceful insight is another, integral way; the two should stream together. The purpose of this arrangement is two-crease. To start with so you can record every single prophetic expression; this training is for the gift of the individual accepting service, and in addition insurance for the person who is giving the prescience. Unrecorded predictions are liable to every individual's recognition concerning information exchanged and the unique situation and soul in which the word was served. Regularly while getting a prediction we hear what we need or need, not what was really said. Furthermore, we are mindful to guarantee that all service is successful and served in the best possible soul. We need to assess and witness all individual service to guarantee individuals are not deceived or don't react disgracefully to their prophetic word. 

No "Parking garage Prophecies" 

"Parking garage Prophecies" are those prophetic expressions given starting with one individual then onto the next without otherworldly authority being available to give profound covering to both the individual serving and those accepting service. Thusly, please comprehend that forecasting to others you may experience at Transformed Life Church without authorization from our administration is denied. It is wrong to feel that on the off chance that one detects a word, that he/she should give it. Truth be told the expression of God says that the "soul of the prophet is liable to the prophet" 1 Corinthians 14:32. In this manner sit tight for a suitable time which enables the prophetic word to be weighed/judged 1 Corinthians 14:29-33. We in this manner forecast in the light with witnesses. Be careful with individuals who need to go someplace private to the prediction to you and request that you keep it private. Experience has shown that the essential purpose behind doing this is to increase one's certainty to get one's cash or impact, or to build up a spirited tie with them that frequently winds up with sexual hints. 

Fifteen Practical Do's and Don'ts of Prophetic Ministry 

"I am a prophet/have the prophetic gifting how would I continue?" 

A Transformed Life Church we observe Godly Character over Gifts. Since God's endowments are irreversible (Romans 11:29 NIV), the confirmation of a prophetic blessing does not give the veracity of a Prophet of God. In this manner Character of the man is more critical than the Gifts he shows. Build up your Character. 

The accompanying is 15 rules we take after: 

1. Don't freely reprimand or right church authority by name. Take such "words" secretly to the Pastors/Ministry Heads. The NT doesn't state "Be liable to the prophets" but instead "Be liable to the Elders" (1 Peter. 5:5; Hebrews 13:17). 

2. Try not to uncover somebody's transgression or recognize them by name. Talk about wrongdoing when all is said in done/mysterious terms and request that the Spirit bring conviction (1 Corinthians 14:24-25). 

3. Try not to forecast relational unions or infants. 

4. On the off chance that God uncovers a man's physical burden, don't instantly accept or propose the means to mend them. Obviously, appeal to God for them! 

5. Unless you have the express scriptural warrant, don't tell a man what "God's will" is for their life. Try not to preclude the conditions or qualifiers when giving guarantees. Predictions are regularly contingent. They are solicitations not ensures. They require affirmation, supplication, acquiescence and diligent work. 

6. Be greatly careful in forecasting on open and political issues or cataclysmic events and in addition private moves, work changes or advancement. 

7. Abstain from utilizing prediction to set up precepts, hones, or moral rule that need unequivocal scriptural help. 

8. Try not to speak to the prediction to set behavioral gauges on auxiliary issues (e.g., regardless of whether Christians ought to go to R-appraised motion pictures, savor liquor balance, tune in to common music, and so on.). 

9. Be mindful of extreme reliance on prophetic words for making the standard, day by day choices throughout everyday life. 

10. Continuously oppose the strain to forecast on request, without an awesome disclosure. No matter what, oppose the compulsion to talk when God is quiet. Probably the most serious condemnations and notices of judgment are saved for the individuals who came to represent God, however, don't (see Ezekiel 13:1-9; Jeremiah 23:25-32). 

11. Try not to give your character a chance to be reliant on your gifting. Keep in mind that prophetically talented individuals are regularly more touchy than others and can act naturally protective. They are effortlessly injured by feedback. Remind them affectionately that they are not their blessing! 

12. Try not to disdain prophetic articulations when things go seriously or when individuals are annoyed or when somebody fails to understand the situation (1 Thessalonians 5:19-22). 

13. Oppose the enticement/weight dependably to translate and apply the disclosure you've gotten. Offer what God has demonstrated you and be tranquil! Once more, there are infrequent exemptions to this "run the show". 

14. Give adequate time to helping guests, unbelievers, or cessationists comprehend prophetic service. They will frequently feel confounded or think that it is odd. Set aside a few minutes to discourse and question about what has (or has not) happened. 

15. Most negative prediction gives knowledge into Satan's expectations. Give affirmation that atonement, confidence, and acquiescence can stop Satan's want for demolition in somebody's life.

Reacting to Prophecy 

"I have gotten a prediction, now what?" 

1. Work out your prediction and ruminate over it. 

2. Survey it with your Pastor or other otherworldly oversight. Incorporated into setting up our prescience, is talking about it with our Leaders (regardless of whether they are the ones who gave the prediction or it was given in their essence). We will need savvy advise for our triumph and security. Maxims 24:6 

3. Try not to act without affirmation and advice. On the off chance that your prediction contains course or other disclosure that calls for action on your part, look for affirmation and advice from confided in profound guides previously advancing. 

4. Affirm it with Biblical standards and the observer of the Spirit. Prescience ought to dependably concur with sacred writing. Any piece of a prediction that repudiates sacred text isn't a precise word from God. Contrast your prediction concurring with the Word of God and different predictions you have gotten for understanding, promote knowledge and support. As per Romans 8:16 we have to witness with the prediction, by the Holy Spirit in us (does it seem to be valid in our own particular soul where Holy Spirit stands; so we sense life in it). In conjunction with this is judging and measuring the expression of individual prediction by built-up Biblical standards (as per the Word of God). 

5. Read, say so anyone can hear and contemplate your prediction. This is essential as it enables us to comprehend and have more full implications opened up to us that are not obvious at first. We will need to get all that God means. 1 Timothy 4:14, 15 expresses that we ought not to disregard the blessing that is in us by prediction so we will need to return to our prescience regularly (week by week is prescribed). 6. Know about prophetic phrasing and tenses. Words, for example, "now," "today," "soon," "tomorrow," "new," and others may mean something altogether unique in relation to what we had envisioned. Remain open to God and look for astute direction. Something forecasted in the current state may really allude to something later on, and the other way around. 

7. Get your prescience with confidence, lowliness, docility, vision and an open heart. Confidence is having certainty that God has an individual arrangement for your life and just your best enthusiasm on a fundamental level since He is your magnificent. 

8. Individual prescience is halfway, dynamic and contingent. What you will get might be a piece of God's advice for your life. You should be loyal to the part you have gotten from God in the event that you are to advance into facilitating disclosure. Rebellion can invalidate your prophetic word. You can postpone or discredit the satisfaction of your prediction by an unwillingness to trail the Lord and His ways. The Lord's guarantees still require our assertion and participation keeping in mind the end goal to happen. A man called to lecture on another mainland will never do as such on the off chance that they decline to get an international ID or step foot on a plane! 

9. Prescience does not confirm character. The nonappearance of censure or adjustment in a prophetic word, not the slightest bit legitimizes the character or way of life of the individual accepting it. Not on account of God neglects to specify a specific sin does it imply that He either doesn't know or couldn't care less. An individual prediction was never given to expose individuals' wrongdoings. We don't pass judgment on our "rightness" by individual prediction, yet by the Word of God. 

10. Never utilize individual prediction to legitimize an individual choice, position or activity. This is called profound pride and can prompt double-dealing. Be watchful that you don't permit your own wants, needs, and desires to cloud or impact your judgment and capacity to appropriately decipher and react to God's oath for your life. 

11. Keep a record of your own predictions. Don't simply read it once and dispose of it, however, utilize it to deliberately center your petitions for a profound leap forward. Utilize similar standards of Scripture to build up confidence for comes about. 

12. Wage a decent fighting with your prescience. 1 Timothy 1:18, 19. We are to pronounce and declare our prediction with the goal that we may (v. 19) hold quick to confidence. We should accept and have confidence for our prediction to happen as intended similarly as Abraham didn't become powerless in confidence as he gave acclaim and radiance to God completely induced that what God had guaranteed (Abraham was the father of numerous countries) He could perform and would convey. (Romans 4:16-21). Thus, expressing gratitude toward God and adulating Him for the indication of the prediction is additionally part of our fighting... Hold up persistently upon your prophetic word as timing is critical. 

13. Hold up quietly upon your prophetic word as timing is critical. Isaiah 40:31. At the point when tolerance isn't connected and when we don't look out for the Lord we may create an Ishmael like Abraham and Sarah (a fake, not of God)or essentially nullify our prediction like Saul, who, blessed by the Lord as King wound up losing that position. 

14. Follow up on your prophetic word when you have gotten affirmation and direction. Do nothing unique unless certainly guided by all headings to the detail and collaborating with God, neither venturing out in front of Him nor lingering behind. 

15. Try not to settle on real choices in view of a prophetic word. It was never God's purpose for you to be driven by prescience, however, to be "drove by the Spirit" (Romans 8:14). Try not to disregard God's Word, petition, shrewdness, develop direct and your internal profound witness when settling on real choices. 

16. Things may go direct inverse of what was forecasted to you for a season. Things may deteriorate before they show signs of improvement in the wake of having gotten a prophetic word, however not generally. Persistently hold quick to the guarantees of God (Hebrews 6:11, 12). 

17. We should be produced before specific things are showed. In the event that our Lord must be prepared by having human experience for His office as High Priest then we should be culminated also (Hebrews 2:6-10). Jesus was set up for a long time for just 3 years of natural service. 

18. Show day prophets are not reliable. Indeed, even a genuine prophet is equipped for committing errors or blending a genuine word with the blunder. Similarly, as we ought to never acknowledge a false prophet due to a genuine prediction, we ought to never dismiss a genuine prophet on account of a false prescience. In the event that after watchful judgment part or the greater part of your prophetic word is observed to be erroneous, at that point acquire it to the Leaders' consideration a soul of submission instead of judgment. Keep in mind Paul's caution to "Demonstrate (test) all things; hold quick to what is great" (1 Thessalonians 5: 21) 

19. The Character of the prophet is basic. Never get a prediction from a "prophet" with faulty character. The product of the Spirit must be clear from his/her life