Word of God clearly says in 1
Thessalonians 5:20-21 - Do not despise the words of prophets, but
test everything; hold fast to what is good.
We are living in the modern world where people are doing
their own things and most of the time they will not listen to the prophets of
God.
God’s prophets are of different kinds, first one are the self
proclaimed prophets because of someone in their family is a prophet or because
they are connected to a prophet. Second ones are the prophets chosen by God to
do His mission.
Self proclaimed prophets are very dangerous because of doing
things which pleases people and not God. They teach people about health, money
and things of the world and they never tell people the wrong they are doing and
also about suffering which leads us to heaven.
People will listen to self proclaimed prophets more because
they will get them the benefits in the world. Many a times self proclaimed
prophets will give wrong messages which people accept and make their life a
mess. That is why whenever we pray for people the first thing they ask is
whether there is any message for them. Self proclaimed prophets always lead
people to them and make them dependent on them rather than Jesus.
Prophets chosen by God will always lead people to Jesus.
Prophets chosen by God always help people to go through their sufferings so
that suffering will bring merit to their life. Prophets chosen by God may not
be accurate all the time, sometimes they can do mistakes.
For example King David asks Prophet Nathan that he wants to
build the temple of the Lord, Prophet Nathan says to King David do as it
pleases you and goes and that day King David plans how to build the temple for
the Lord, But the Word of the Lord came to Prophet Nathan at night and God said
to him that because King David shed blood in the wars he is not the one to
build temple for him, because prophet Nathan was a good prophet he goes again
to King David and gives Him the message
of God, King David obeys the message and pass on the responsibility of build
the temple for the Lord to his son
Solomon.
Prophets may give Word pleasing or displeasing to us but we
have to see the truth in that Word and see whether it is according to the Word
of God. If it is according to the Word of God only we need to accept it and if
it is not according to the Word of God then we need to ignore it. Messages come
from 3 sources 1. Holy Spirit 2. Human Spirit and 3. Evil spirit. We have to
discern and see from which spirit message has come and accept messages by Holy
Spirit only which will benefit us.
Date:
05: 11: 2020.
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