The Gift of Prophecy

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Have you ever experienced visions or dreams? Have you ever had a message of some kind come to you? A warning? Instruction? Insight regarding events to come?

A surreal series of events that seemed to give you some kind of awareness? Like dreams, random conversations with others, televisions programs, and other happenings coalescing, causing symbol, subject and ideas to reappear again and again. Like reality is being bent. But at the same time absolutely real? (And I don’t mean anything purely on social media… Those are memes and algorithms…)

Ever had a visitor come to you in your dreams? Were they in shadows? Did they appear as preachers or teachers or some other authoroty?

In the same way, have you experienced something threatening that was clearly not God?

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When I dream, it’s as it is here. I have normal conversations with normal people. The exception being, that on occasion I am lifted up and leave my feet to soar like a bird for a time. But there are no dragons, or unicorns, no angels or demons-- just other folks. Often the setting is a classroom, or a dinner table where food is shared. Most often, I find myself at construction sites- the most familiar setting for my dreams. As for authority figures, I see often a friend and mentor, and on a few occasions, my Dad.

I created a thread for members to share their experiences here. I think a lot of people are too shy, or embarrassed to do so, but I find dreams illuminating and important.

Warring against the Spirit of Truth
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yes, often since a young child. it can be a bit intimidating to talk about at times.

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Hi,
Yes
Jesus doesn’t have to cover up.
You are still uncertain about with whom you met.
Jesus us not vague.
He has no need to cover, or hide Himself.
The biggest clue, did the world end the following week?
Jesus would not be wrong about this.
So, who did you meet?
Who would have you think he was Jesus when he was not.
What is the cashe about the name?

The cashe is believability.
If it was Jesus, you would not be questioning His word.
Yet here we are.
This shows that the person you spoke with was not Jesus.
Next time, try rebuking it in the name of Jesus, and see what happens.

Blessings

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Greetings

In all my 30 years but also as a young child, I saw many dreams and visions, more so in the last 30 years with major events. As I was asleep all my dreams and some awake, about from 4 am or 5 am I experienced a strange Phenomenon, a dream state event or out-of-body experience which is called ecstasy. Because of what I saw I had to document what I saw by illustration in pictures or drawing a picture of what I was seeing

First, it came upon me in a puzzle form, and I tried to understand what I saw in my sleep, gathered the information, and started butting together. Here I send you what but together by illustration in these pictures.

In this vision I saw myself, again in the same hallway with many doors; each door was a look into the past, present, and future. All were the same sides, I saw the same door that had these men under captivity, I did not go in that one, because that door was chosen for me to see, after that vision I prayed as I do every day. In this vision this time I walk around saying to myself, what matter is this, who brings me here?

As I walked from, I wanted to see the end, there was no end it was infinite.
From the point I entered out of nowhere, where I started back to see an end, I began to pray, as pray I heard music, and Luke warm air came upon me.

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The valley of churches
One night about 4 am I had a dream and the dream became a vision in this vision I saw a valley of churches, thousands of churches, they were all types of churches some small and some tall, there was something unique about them, They were beautiful and old fashion, made of Cedarwood, and then; there I notice something, unique about them.

Musical notes were coming out of these Churches and the musical notes were going up towards the heavens, they were so beautiful and brilliant in colors.

It was like a kaleidoscope in the sky, and then in the middle of this valley of Churches, there was a Very, very great and huge church in the center of the valley of churches.

There were two altars one in the inner Church and another in the outer Church a gravestone with the initials L. C. and the word Babylon

It was very Gothic; as I walked into this Church and then I saw an altar in the inner Church, with the initials B. G. and the word Sardis.
And a gravestone, an altar with a Mythical beast called Centaur Beast are exceptions

The Centaur beast had a cross crushing the Centaur’s back and, in front of the Centaurs were four black wolves with no eyes, on the bottom of the gravestone were two skulls was four eyes, and beside the skull was the year, I cannot tell the year

As I got closer I noticed, that I saw many types of statues it had silver and gold, gemstone, red and purple and scarlet, and a man with long hair.

This church was the prettiest church. But there was one thing missing there was no sound, no musical notes I thought because there were no people, but there were people just like the other churches why?

I did not understand. As I looked into the sky the musical notes got lower but smooth to my ears and suddenly a ladder Came down from heaven and went on top of the little churches with the musical notes.

A latter of gold it was such a beautiful ladder, and tall people with candles on their hands like flaming torches on each side of latter of it, and then the people walked up, laughing and singing songs and hymns, the musical notes were so brilliant in color.
It overwhelmed me with love and peace.
But the big church, the very huge Church had no ladder on it why?
Why didn’t come to this Church?
So they the people of that Church, they created and built their own ladder to reach the sky.
When they finished they worked so hard.
They fashioned with their own gold and silver and diamonds and put their own candles, they were so proud, you could see the pride in their faces.
Then the people they took their ladder and put it against the wall of their Church to climb up, so many people, hundreds and thousands claiming up the ladder, but the people were rushing, one on top of each other, people rushing desperately
Not worried about others why?
And as they got almost to the top of their ladder, it collapsed on them and a very strange sound came out of them as they fell to the ground why?
And then I saw suddenly, what happened to these people; the earth opened up and swallowed up the Church collapsed and its people. Oh my

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I have always had dreams and visions, it started as a baby believer, where Abba showed me in dreams that I would have the gift of healing, he showed me a woman in an elevator and her hand was messed up and in pain and I laid hands on hers and she was healed. God has also mentored me in teaching me the tactics of satan as well in a dream. Then as I matured in my faith, God would show me countries in a vision (closed) and then He would tell me what event would happen there, and it would come to pass in 3 days or within 3 weeks. One time i was driving home and God started showing me a vision but I told God to wait until I got home, lol

Jesus also has shown me a place where He and I sit next to a tree and there a babbling brook and we go and have picnics and talk and I have a very intimate personal relationship with Jesus, He IS my best friend and God is my HUSBAND, what Isaiah says and my everything and all in all God is my Father, my real father died when I was 9 months old, maybe that is why I am so close to Him.

I was at a christian meeting one time and I felt the Holy Spirit’s power came right through my back and it was so surreal to me! I was also at a meeting and was going to sing a song in soprano but at the last minute, God told me to sing it ALTO and I had to tell the guitarist of the change and then when I sang, I felt like i was watching myself sing and the words came out but I didn’t feel that it was me at all but the Holy Spirit overtook me, it wa so surreal to me! I have also had God WARN me of false churches and false pastors as well. God has ALWAYS been so good in WARNING me, so that I don’t get caught up in cults or false churches, and has given me DISCERNMENT as well.

God has also given me inner healing and Physical healing, and given me words of Knowledge and will tell me just by looking at someone, what their stronghold is or pain is. Or words of knowledge that the person says that NO one knew about. But it was all for the calling of the Evangelist which I have been for over 32 years and have been licenced and ordained in Deliverance Ministry. Be blessed and Shalom

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Here is an interesting article regarding the topic:

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The spiritual gift of prophecy is listed among the gifts of the Spirit in 1 Corinthians 12:10 and Romans 12:6. The Greek word translated “prophesying” or “prophecy” in both passages properly means to “speak forth” or declare the divine will, to interpret the purposes of God, or to make known in any way the truth of God which is designed to influence people. Many people misunderstand the gift of prophecy to be the ability to predict the future. While knowing something about the future may sometimes have been an aspect of the gift of prophecy, it was primarily a gift of proclamation (“forth-telling”), not prediction (“fore-telling”).

A pastor/preacher who declares the Bible can be considered a “prophesier” in that he is speaking forth the counsel of God. With the completion of the New Testament canon, prophesying changed from declaring new revelation to declaring the completed revelation God has already given. Jude 3 speaks of “the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (emphasis added). In other words, the faith to which we hold has been settled forever, and it does not need the addition or refinement that comes from extra-biblical revelations.

Also, note the transition from prophet to teacher in 2 Peter 2:1: “There were false prophets among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you” (emphasis added). Peter indicates that the Old Testament age had prophets, whereas the church will have teachers. The spiritual gift of prophecy, in the sense of receiving new revelations from God to be proclaimed to others, ceased with the completion of the Bible. During the time that prophecy was a revelatory gift, it was to be used for the edification, exhortation, and comfort of men (1 Corinthians 14:3). The modern gift of prophecy, which is really more akin to teaching, still declares the truth of God. What has changed is that the truth of God today has already been fully revealed in His Word, while, in the early church, it had not yet been fully revealed.

Christians are to be very wary of those who claim to have a “new” message from God. It is one thing to say, “I had an interesting dream last night.” However, it is quite another matter to say, “God gave me a dream last night, and you must obey it.” No utterance of man should be considered equal to or above the written Word. We must hold to the Word that God has already given and commit ourselves to sola scriptura—Scripture alone.

J.