– Ps. 74:9 – We are given no signs from God; no prophets are left, and none of us knows how long this will be.
– Acts 2:29-31 – I may confidently say to you regarding the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. “And so, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to Him with an oath to seat one of His Descendants on His throne, he looked ahead and SPOKE of the resurrection of the Christ
Some of the same people who don’t believe prophecy is for today, don’t even realize they, themselves, are prophets. David said there are no prophets left, but he himself was a prophet. He sang, and he spoke the Word of God, and thus he prophesied. His revelation of the written word revealed what the coming of Jesus would be like. We now tell of what the second coming of Jesus will be like.
How can someone be prophesying if they don’t even believe in prophecy?
1. Anyone who speaks the Word, is speaking a prophesy.
– Gen. 1:3 – Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
– Prov. 18:21 – Death and life are in the power of the tongue
– Rom. 4:17 – the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.
God spoke and things were created. We were made in His likeness. Our words, when mixed with faith, cause either life or death to the listener. If I call you ugly and you have the faith to believe that you are ugly, then your soul just died a bit.
Not only do our words have power, but God’s Word has power. The Bible is a giant prophecy about Jesus, so simply speaking the Word is speaking a prophecy.
– Matt. 17:20- if you have FAITH like a grain of mustard seed, you will SAY to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.’
– Eze. 36:1 – Son of man, PROPHESY to the mountains of Israel and say, ‘Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord.
Prophecy is speaking the Word of God in faith.
– If you have faith, you can move the mountains
– say to this mountain
– prophesy to the mountains
Do you have faith in God’s word? Do you pray? If yes to both, then you have prophesied.
2. Anyone who prays is prophesying.
God’s promises are prophecies for your life. Prophesy is a word that scares some people, but simply it means: God’s spoken promises. From now on let use the words promise and prophecy interchangeably.
Prayer is an act of faith that God will fulfill His promises. Prayer speaks life into situations, which is prophesy.
Promise: a declaration or assurance that one will do a particular thing or that a particular thing will happen
Prophecy: the foretelling or prediction of what is to come
When we say, ‘You have my word,’ it means ‘you have my promise’.
Well, God’s Word is His promise. The whole meaning of a ‘promise’ is that we wait for something we don’t yet have. Thus, it’s God’s ‘promises’, or ‘prophecies’, that show us what our future looks like. Abraham had no proof, no facts, that he could have children; all the evidence said he couldn’t. But when Abraham chose to believe God’s promise, the promise activated. The promises/prophecies God gives us, have to be activated by faith. The promise is carried out by faith. ‘Abraham believed and so became (Rom.4:18).’
‘You are what you eat’ rings true… You are what you believe.
Stand on His promises/prophecies for your life. Continue to remind Him of His promises when you pray.
– 2 Cor.1:20 – For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God.”
3. Anyone who has faith in the Word, is agreeing with a prophesy.
– Heb. 11:1 – faith is the assurance of things hoped for
– Rom. 1:16-17 – the gospel, for it is the power of God… God is revealed from faith
The Word is the promise of God. It’s by our faith that God is revealed. Our faith causes things that are not, to come into existence. Faith is foretelling, and thusly prophecy.
– Rom. 4:16-24 – Therefore, the promise comes by faith…God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not. Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.
4. Anyone who testifies about Jesus, talks of fulfilled prophesy.
– Rev. 19:10 (NET) – Worship God, for the testimony about Jesus is the spirit of prophecy
We can testify of: 1)the fulfilled prophecies about Jesus, and 2)the fulfillment of God’s promises in our lives.
If we have seen God fulfill a promise, then we have seen a prophesy fulfilled.
ClipNotes:
1. Anyone who speaks the Word, is speaking a prophesy.
Prophecy is speaking the Word of God in faith
2. Anyone who prays is prophesying.
Prophecy is a fancy term for ‘God’s promises’. God’s promises are prophecies for your life – it His promises/prophecies that show us what our future looks like. Prayer is the act of coming into agreement with those.
3. Anyone who has faith in the Word, is agreeing with a prophesy.
Faith activates the promises of God. ‘Our faith causes things that are not, to come into existence.’ Faith is foretelling, and thusly prophecy.
4. Anyone who testifies about Jesus, talks of fulfilled prophesy.
If we have seen God fulfill a promise, then we have seen a prophesy fulfilled.
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