For half of my born again life in Christ, I was nurtured by the prophetic movement. The movement as a whole consist of leaders with different ideologies. These ideas give way to certain movements. Movements can sometimes give way to extremism. Than one extremest gives way to an extreme movement. Unfortunately neither stay out of the ditch.
The prophetic movement today has gotten weird at most. Instead of the prophet revealing Jesus they are revealing phone numbers. Instead of talking about “Christ in you the hope of glory” they are building up your expectation of receiving angel feathers and gold dust. Have you noticed that over time the focus stopped being internal and became external manifestations? I love the manifestations of the Holy Spirit, I’ve been blessed and very fortunate to be part of some mighty moves of God. Sadly much of what we call “revival” is fluff. When the Holy Spirit is in something He has an amazing way of getting the focus off the man and glorifying Jesus. When the flesh or a familiar spirit is in operation it has an amazing way of glorifying the man of God.
Are we ever going to grow out of parking lot prophecy and street evangelism parlor tricks? Are we ever going to be done with the “Do you feel that heat on your hand” or the “One leg is bigger than the other” trick? Are we going to graduate from the “Lord sees your tears and your prayers at night” shot in the dark prophetic words? What about the “I see so and so’s mantle on you”?
The new fad is “Culture changes” we have taken “Changing the atmosphere” and funneled it through cultural relevance. Instead of changing the culture we are becoming the culture, so the culture doesn’t have to change, we change ourselves to fit the culture of the world. Instead of truly changing the culture we are trying to change the response we get from the world. Instead of being hated by all nations we are the most beloved among the nations. The culture hasn’t changed, the devil likes the culturally relevant Christian. The response changes but the culture doesn’t. A lukewarm Christian that is culturally relevant will one day meet God as a righteous judge.
Try not to get caught up in fads. Once you get out of them it is easy to take a look back and think “How stupid was I”? Thank God for prophets that are revealing Jesus instead of phone numbers.
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