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  * Visions and Revelations; Timely Prophetic Messages

  * Coming World War 3

  * Understanding Dreams, Visions and Prophecies

  * Prophetic Ministry; How God speaks and the prophetic ministry

  * Associate Visions and Impact Power

  * Night Seasons: Overcoming Discouragement, Depression and Suicide

  * Writing and Travelling Ministry

  * Handling Success in Life & Ministry

  * Communion of Compassion

  * The Spirit of Jezebel

  * Revival is Now

Introduction.................................................................................................. 3

Part One: Prophetic Visions Are Real
Chapter One: Significance of Prophetic Visions..................................... 6

Chapter Two Vision of an Encounter.......................................................... 9

Chapter Three: Types of Vision and Sensing......................................... 11

Chapter Four: Visions of Ministry Assignments..................................... 19

Chapter Five: Vision comes by Burden.................................................... 23

Chapter Six: Vision and Timing Events................................................... 25

Chapter Seven: Confirmatory and Misinterpreted Vision................... 28

Chapter Eight: Destiny Vision.................................................................. 32

Part Two: Understanding the Prophetic Ministry

Chapter Nine: Meaning of the Prophetic Ministry....................................... 34

Chapter Ten: Roles of the Prophetic Ministry.......................................... 37

Chapter Eleven: The Nature of the Prophetic Ministry......................... 44

Chapter Twelve: Over 7,000 Biblical Prophets and Prophetesses... 51

Chapter Thirteen: Prophetic office and other ministries................... 57

Chapter Fourteen: The Prophetic Office and the Gift of Prophecy... 60

Chapter Fifteen: The Prophetic Office and the Prophetic Nature...... 65

Chapter Sixteen: Pitfalls in prophetic Ministry..................................... 72

Chapter Seventeen: Growing in the Prophetic.................................... 72

Chapter Eighteen: Judging the Prophetic............................................ 90

Chapter Nineteen: Signs and Symbols................................................. 94

Part Three: Prophetic Activation

Chapter Twenty: Understanding Prophetic Activation..................... 100

Chapter Twenty One: Hearing, Seeing and Positioning.................... 102

Chapter Twenty Two: Affecting Nations............................................ 120

Part Four: Timely Prophetic Messages

Chapter Twenty Three: Prophetic Messages to

Individuals, Church & Nations................................................................ 132

A single prophetic word can change a whole nation. One prophetic word can wipe away falsehood that held people in bondage for years and can deliver people and regions from demonic manipulations. Critical years are here. It is imperative that we arise to take up the weapons that were given to us to face the challenge around us.

Prophetic ministry is not only for the Old Testament people and for the early apostolic Church, but it is here. When Jesus ascended to heaven, He gave gifts unto men; to the Church; He gave Ministry of the apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. They are given for the work of the Ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ and for the perfecting of the saints until we all grow into full stature of Christ. Since the Church is still growing to perfection, how can we throw aside the prophetic ministry that it is not for our time. If we believe that the evangelists, pastors and teachers exist then we need to recognize that true prophets too are available.

God called me into the prophetic Ministry many years ago and I got several prophetic visions, encounters, and experiences, which has assisted me to write this book.

In part one of this book, I wrote several personal testimonies of the visions I saw, which came to pass. I have experienced different kinds of visions and they have influence my life positively for so many years. Vision is not just for 'super Christians' it should be a normal life of a Christian. It is a promise from God for you to walk in them.

In this book, you will learn in details about visions, the meaning of the prophetic Ministry, the role of a prophet, the various types of the prophetic anointing and how we can affect people and nations by the prophetic weapon. Moreover, it will show us the pitfall in the prophetic ministry and how to avoid them. You will be activated to flow in the prophetic when you understand and act on the teachings I wrote in this book. The last part of this book is a collection of timely prophetic messages the lord gave to me.

I have taught about visions, prophecies, dreams in several places, and I have seen how scores of people began flowing in the prophetic as the words comes to activate their spirit to cooperate with the Holy Spirit who gives visions, dreams and prophecy; they received tremendous blessing from God as a result of visions. What you are about to read in this book will influence and change your life for many years to come if you believe and put them into practice.

-Daniel Affi

Part One:

Significance of Prophetic Visions

Visions are real. Many years ago, when I heard preachers talked of the visions they saw and it happened, I wondered if what they were saying will ever happen in my life. Few years before the year 2000, I had few revelations and word of knowledge on a limited basis, but from January of the year 2000, the Lord put me into the greater dimensions of visions and revelations.

I have had countless visions and revelations from the Lord. Some of them were the revelations of what happened in the past and what is happening in the present (word of knowledge) and some of them were what will happen in the future (word of wisdom). They come through visions, dreams, voice of the Holy Spirit, prophecy, and by a knowing or sensing in my heart; God speaks through various ways. Find out the common way or method He usually speak to you and develop it, yet be open to receive from Him through other ways as He speaks.

God promised to make His people to see visions.

"And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men SHALL SEE VISIONS, Your old men shall dream dreams. And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; And they shall prophesy." Acts 2:17.

Just as all believers can pray for the sick to get healed, all believers can speak in tongues, all believers can cast out demons, and they all can prophecy, into same way, all believers can see visions. The only difference between the manifestation of vision in the life of believers and in the life of a prophet is the frequency of the manifestation. Seer prophets see visions consistently and in a higher dimension.

"I have also spoken by the prophets, And have multiplied visions; I have given symbols through the witness of the prophets."Hosea 12:10

You will see visions. Vision influences lives. It keeps you on the going in the right path of life or ministry. It will save you from danger and death, and it will lead you to knowing, receiving and acting to receive your blessings. (1 Cor. 2:13).

Visions are gates into the spiritual world. Through a vision, you will able to see and commune in the Spirit realm. Through a vision, you will be able to receive what has happened in the past and what will happen in the future accurately.

It is a burden that produces visions. Each time I receive a burden about something concerning myself, my ministry, the Church, nations, or for other people, I will withdraw from people; I will withdraw from much talking to get a quite place so that I can be alone with God. As I press in seeking prayer, the Holy Spirit, through the burden, will how me a vision. When you are in an atmosphere to receive a vision, do not be in a haste to leave the environment and do not be carried away by the awesomeness of the first vision, He will show you. Learn to wait; God may still show you more. Learn to write down each vision you receive.

Most times, God speaks before showing. To me, the voice of the Holy Spirit is the highest level of prophetic revelation; hearing God by heart and to be led by your heart. This is the primary way Jesus was led. Most of what God SHOWS us are the PHOTOS of the silent words He puts in our hearts. The silent words would come as if you were sensing a thought of something. Most times, we don't push our mind to really pink what we are receiving or to act on what we are receiving. We miss His gentle voice because we only want to hear the audible voice.

Learn to follow what the Holy Spirit is placing in your heart to do.

Vision is a strategic weapon the Lord has given to us in these last days to fight and to overcome the enemy's strategies that has held the church captive. Victory will come when God is in the battle. When God speaks and you obey, there will be victory and blessings. God speaks through visions. Vision helps believers to do God's will. God communicates His will and purposes through vision. It is very important because it helps you to know God's mind. God has a will; a programmes for your life, individual etc.

Vision brings accuracy in our Ministries. People easily understand a message when it comes in photograph forms. Most times, we don't easily forget message in photo forms. Vision is important because it is in the seeing.

Vision empowers and stirs you to accomplish a purpose. When the Holy Spirit brings a vision of a purpose, He gives you the power to fulfil the purpose. The power of the Holy Spirit in the vision will create movement, enthusiasm and speed in you to fulfil the task. You cannot do it until you see it. Great destinies and assignments begin with a vision.

Vision helps you to know and intercept impending danger through intercession.

Visions of an Encounter

In the month of December 1999 into January 2000, while I went to my village In Nasarawa State, Nigeria. I spent most of my time praying in the Spirit; I Spent hours praying in tongues until one day I had a visitation; in the encounter, I saw myself prophesying then the prophetic anointing, like a blanket, fell on me. Since that month till now, God shows me things in the realm of the Spirit that happened in the past, things that are happening now, and the things that will happen in the future.

Why is it that I never had such experience or encounter with God to receive the prophetic anointing until I spent some time in prayers? There are certain calls, gifts and assignments which God has prepared for us which will never materialize and we will never enter into their dimensions until we have spent ample amount of time in prevailing prayers even through praying in tongues. '

It is not as if we don't pray, but most times our prayers are only targeted at our personal needs, which is why we cannot enter into the dimensions of God's needs. The anointing of God is to meet the needs of people, not your needs. Sometimes, we don't receive the fullness of the anointing because we don't press or push in the place of prayers. Be persistent in your prayers. Don't be lazy. Don't allow anything to distract you from prolonged prayers. Be passionate about prayers. Be lost in prayers. The foundation of every believer and Ministries should be based on prayers.

Praying in tongues is the gate that will open you into the manifestation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, that is, the gift of the word of knowledge, the gift of the word of wisdom, the gift of prophecy, the gifts of healings, the gift of the working of miracles, the gift of faith, the gift of discerning of Spirits, the gift of tongues and the gift of the interpretation of tongues. (1Cor. 14:18, 2Cor.12:1, Jude 20).

Praying in the Spirit opens you up to more visions and revelations. In February 2005, I received a vision that divine visitation of the Holy Spirit will come my way in two and half year. When the time came in July 2007, I had the spiritual encounter that the Lord promised. It was a growing might, a higher impartation of the anointing, an enablement to begin to activate and train believers into the prophetic anointing. It was an "apostolic commission" to a nation to reproduce, teach and preach what He gave me for the nations.

Visions are real. If God says it, He will do it. All we need to do is to wait for the fulfilment of a vision.

"For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry." (Hab. 2:3)

Most times, God will tell you that you will receive a spiritual visitation, but He will not tell you how it will happen. When He told me of the promise of my visitation I thought the experience would be dramatic with a PHYSICAL manifestation but my expectation was doused as it came in a different form. It was a quickening in my spirit for a major task, a growing might in my spirit and my thought pattern changed. He sent me to equip and reproduce prophetic anointing upon believers. I also received other commissions. You may not be sent to reproduce your kind if you are immature with the things of God. He doesn't want babes to reproduce babies.

Types of Vision and Spiritual Sensing

Vision is real. You can see countless visions. It is the Holy Spirit who gives vision. The Holy Spirit has a language; visions, dreams, His voice or revelation. These are the means through which He speaks. (Acts 2:17-18).

We have six types of visions. They are:

(i) Open visions

(ii) Inner or spiritual vision

(iii) Trances

(iv) Vision of the night.

(v) Panoramic

(vi)Translation

(i) OPEN VISION

In an open vision one's physical senses are not suspended. It can be compared to watching a movie from a television screen. It will be so clear that you cannot miss a word or an action from your mind once received. God brings this by the Holy Spirit to show us important issues. I discovered that in most cases, what is shown will happen exactly as it was shown. It is not like other visions and dreams where one has to sometimes "strive" to interpret and to carefully apply the revelation in the vision.

Prophet Daniel had it; he saw and heard clearly when an angel appeared to him. When he was seeing and hearing from the angel in the vision, people around him did not see but a great quaking fell on them, and they ran away. (Daniel 10:7). God opened the eyes of Elisha's servant who was afraid of their enemies, and he saw in an open vision the mountain full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha to protect them. (2 Kings 6:16-17).

(ii) SPIRITUAL VISION

In this type of vision, we see with our spiritual eyes. Some people call it "inner vision" because one sees it with the inner eye, the spiritual eye. Some call it hidden or mini-vision. It comes mostly while you are praying and suddenly, you are lost in the Spirit for seconds. The vision is in a photo form and the activities are immovable. They come in snap-shots. Unlike a trance vision where the events are movable, the events in spiritual vision are static, immovable. It comes and vanishes sharply and immediately.

Some forms of spiritual vision come gently and unfolds gradually that you will need a little patience to wait for to finish unfolding. Most times you will know what the vision meant after its unfolding.

A photo can be worth a thousand meaning. As simple as this vision is, it is very legitimate. They are so real. Be careful to take hasty decisions when the visions come especially major ones until you have become skilful in understanding. If you are not careful, watchful and sensitive, it will appear and disappear and you will mistake this occurrence for imagination. I have seen several believers who did not know they had seen a vision and mistook the act as a figment of their own imagination. They do not realize the fact that the moment one becomes born again, God works on the believer and transforms their imagination causing His Spirit to brood over our minds. God uses our imaginations to form images (vision). I have used my sanctified imagination and God spoke to me in several ways. When you become born again, God will not destroy your imagination: the part of your mind that produces pictures. Paul encourages us to renew our minds and not to destroy it. (Rom. 12:2). The more you spend your time in prayers, in the word and in meditation for an extended period of time, your spirit will be open and will dominate your mind (the place of imaginations), and then you will receive from God.

It is advisable to write down immediately what you received or you may forget. I have missed so many great revelations because of negligence in penning them down.

Paul had it when he saw Ananias coming to pray for him to receive his sight. At that time Paul was blinded when he was struck by a bright light from heaven on his way to Damascus. Paul, with his eyes closed saw a vision. In another place, he saw this simple vision of a man from Macedonia calling him to come over and help them. (Acts 16:9).

(iii) TRANCE

A trance is when you are in a state where you are not awake and not asleep. You are in between and suddenly you are lost into another realm; you are lost into the Spirit realm where you are given a message. It is always like you are in a movie. Sometimes you will both SEE and HEAR in the Spirit at the same time. Your eyes are wide awake after the vision and you will know when you left and when you came back to your physical senses.

One characteristic of a trance is that you will be involved in what is happening in the vision. Peter had a trance in Acts 10:9-20. He saw unclean animals coming down from heaven to him and heard voice said, 'arise and eat.' Trance is movable while inner vision or spiritual vision is immovable.

The devil could give a trance, but God's trances are easy to know and interpret. You will know God's trance by a sense of an awesome presence of the Holy Spirit around you after its reception. You will know that you know that it is from God; you will be fully convinced that it is from God. When you are confused and do not know whether the trance is from God or not, it is likely not from God. The vision may look so ordinary to you, you may think they make no sense, but they are real. It could make a whole of difference about something in your life or ministry. Sometimes when you are back from it, the Spirit of prayer, worship or silent thanksgiving will flow from your heart. Sometimes when you are back from work or school, just trying to rest, you will fall into trance.

(iv) VISION OF THE NIGHT

Vision of the night or a night vision is a type of a vision. It is not a dream; though it comes by a dream like experience. A dream is what you see in your sleep, and when you are awake, you get to remember that you saw this or that event. Vision of the night could come to your spirit in the morning, afternoon or at night. It is when you are asleep and a revelation is given to you. It will be so real that you will awake suddenly after the reception. In most cases you will get up from your bed to sit down or stand up. And you will feel an awesome presence around you.

It could be given to you for a direction, encouragement or warning of coming attack. If it is an attack, you need to prayerfully deal with the issue. Do not till the next day to call believers to join you. It came to you at that time because the devil has just started devising it. And pray it through until you are convinced your prayer is answered. God could use this to bring a major issue about your life, ministry, family and nations to you. Daniel had a night vision. (Daniel 2:19).

Its major characteristic is that it vanishes sharply. Isaiah said that the distress that will come on ariel will be like a dream of a night vision. ( Isaiah 29:7).

(v) TRANSLATION

This is what I call, "the third heaven experience." This is when the Holy Spirit literally carries your spirit to see events on physical regions of the earth or outside the planet earth. Sometimes, you will be carried to a place in the spirit to pray for the sick people and in the physical the people will receive their healings. The spirit realm is real. It controls the physical realm. In the above different types of vision explained, God may show you vision which will require interpretation. But in translation vision, most times, what you see or hear is direct and accurate that you may not need interpretation of such an experience.

There is going to be more of this kind of vision in these seasons. You can affect nations from right where you are because there is no distance in the spirit. 2Cor.12:1-2).

(vi) PANORAMIC VISION

This is a prolonged open vision or trance. The encounter could last for thirty minutes, hours or days. As you are receiving the revelation, it can pause, and you can go and eat or do other things and still come back to continue from the very point the revelation stopped. And sometimes, even when you are talking with people or while eating or taking your bath, the scene or movie will continue to play in your spirit. John the beloved who wrote the Book of Revelations had series of this type of vision.

Positioning to receive a word from God is crucial on how to be led by the Holy Spirit; positioning is to place yourself in a direction that certain things could come your way. For instant, when you want to receive a message by your telephone, there must be the handset, you must get connected to the communication organization by registering, the charging of the handset and you need the Sim Card. After setting up all these, you still need to dial a number or click ok to receive a message.

Below are the ways you can position yourself to be led by the Holy Spirit;

• Abstaining from polluted magazines and movies

• Forsake not the assembly the brethren

• Study and meditate on the word of God consistently

• Fasting

• Praying in the Spirit

• Waiting to Hear

• Quieting your spirit

I have written in details of how you can position to receive visions and revelations in chapter twenty six of this book.

SENSING

Visions are real. Jesus saw visions and so were the apostles. But vision is not the only way that God speaks to us. He speaks in various ways; through dreams, circumstances, His revealed word, prophecies, visions, and by the voice of the Holy Spirit. (Heb.1: 1-2).

But we must develop the art of hearing God in our hearts. Believers should expect to be led by the Spirit of God in their hearts. "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God." (Romans 8:14). One of the characteristic of a mature believer is that he is being led by the Holy Spirit.

I found out that more that 90% of the prophetic revelations that Jesus received during His earthly ministry were by SENSING. Some people call it impression.

Sensing is a full KNOWING in your heart of what God is saying. It is not an audible voice, but the message will be so real as if it is an audible voice.

"For he KNEW that the chief priests had handed Him over because of envy." (Mark 15:10).

"But Jesus KNEW their thoughts, and said to them: "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand." (Matt.12:25).

"But He KNEW their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, "Arise and stand here." And he arose and stood." (Luke 6:8).

"...and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He KNEW what was in man." (John2:25).

"When Jesus saw him lying there, and KNEW that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, "Do you want to be made well?"(John5:6).

"When Jesus KNEW in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, "Does this offend you?" (John6:61).

"Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus KNEW that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who was in the world, He loved them to the end." (John 13:1).

Sensing can be so powerful that you can know people's names, those you never met before, knowing a date and time an event will happen. You could sense the presence of angels when they come around; the kind of angels and the type of assignment they come to accomplish in a meeting. You could also sense the presence demonic forces in a place.

Our senses can develop. It may take you time to make a major decision by this method, but it is good. The devil doesn't have access to a believer's heart but can manipulate his mind. Sensing is in the heart.

Paul had a KNOWING, or a SENSING in his heart of the impending danger that would befall them. He knew, sensed or perceived the coming storm and wind that were ahead of then. "Men, I PERCEIVE that this voyage will end with disaster and much loss, not only of the cargo and ship, but also our lives." (Acts 27:10).

God usually speak before showing (vision) and whatever visions you received, let your heart or sensing confirm it.

Every instruction of the Holy Spirit you obey will produce the supernatural in your life or ministry.

The Holy Spirit leads us by:

i. Restraining or pulling us backward

ii. Leading us forward

Understand Inspired thought - A thought of a thing could cross your mind and means nothing to you, but at a point it is inspired, it will make a lot of sense to your heart. The very thing you were ignoring will become so real and then you feel strongly that something should be done about it. This is an inspired thought by the Holy Spirit to your heart and it is an indication to act.

Understand the prompting of the Holy Spirit: This is the Holy Spirit acting upon your spirit. It brings situations to the knowledge of your heart and would push your heart to act on what it is bringing to its awareness. For example, you may see someone in need, the Holy Spirit might prompt your heart to arise and help. That is the prompting of the Holy Spirit.

Understand Impression: Impression is when the Holy Spirit brings something into your heart. A thought of something that has never crossed your heart or an issue you have not thought about for a long time. When this thought comes to your heart, there will be a strong growing awareness in your heart about it; it will keep growing and coming to you until you act before you will have your complete rest. It is like a light burden on your spirit, but carries a caring presence of God. A word of knowledge or the word of wisdom could come to your heart by impression. It is the same as "I perceived," or "I sensed."

Details on how the Holy Spirit speaks is in chapter Twenty One of this book.

Visions of Ministry Assignments

The work of the Ministry is in phases. And within each phase of a Ministry work, there may be various types of assignments He will give to you. The ministry of Paul was a good example of series of assignments within a given phase of ministry assignment. Shortly after Paul's conversion, he began a ministry, evangelistic ministry, preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. Later he went to the Arabian desert for the period of about 3 years, then he went to be with the apostles in Jerusalem for sometimes, and then he went to the church that was in Antioch for some years. He was a teacher and a prophet in the church before God commissioned him into the apostolic assignment. He had two major missionary trips and later was on the sea to Rome to witness the gospel and finally in a prison, 'house arrest.' His stay in prison was another phase of his Ministry: ministering by intercession and writing.

In January 2000, I saw a vision to go and stay in Abuja, Nigeria, for a season, which I did. In that location, I did few ministry assignments.

After that, I was led by God to go to a Bible school. There is a time for the calling, a time for training or preparation, and a time for the release or separation. As the call into the Ministry must be divine and be confirmed, so is every release for higher call must be confirmed.

After the two years of tedious learning and praying in the Bible school, I had a vision of the night, and was led back again to Abuja to go into intercessory Ministry, which lasted for some years. That was a phases in my ministry.

Bible school training is not the only training for a called Minister. God has a special and unique way He trains every Minister. The training will come by how the individual is able to cooperate with the leading of the Holy Spirit; to obey the Holy Spirit in whatever He will say. God will also allow people to step on your toes to test your love. Praying for the good of our enemies is a sign of spiritual maturity. God will also delay certain things you love the most from coming to you on time, so He could test your patience, joy and long suffering in the midst of delay. You must pass through the school of suffering. It is suffering that prepares a believer to handle great spiritual responsibility. "Though He was a son, yet he learnt obedience by the things that he suffered." (Hebrews 5:8). That one finishes a Bible school successfully and is ordained by men doesn't mean that he or she is prepared for ministry work. Not all people who go through our seminaries are truly called of God. Some people send themselves into the ministry. Ministry is a divine call. "No man should take this honour upon himself except he that is called of God." (Hebrews 5:4).

Learn to be sensitive to when God is calling you into the Ministry and learn to be sensitive when you are the one sending yourself. If you are not sure if God has called you, then you are not called. You will know if you are truly called by God and you wouldn't bother to get confirmations from men. When you begin to utter these words then know that the call is on you: "woe is me if I don't preach the gospel." However, all believers are to be involved in other work of the Ministry.

I saw vision about a year or two before I went to Abuja in January 2003 for a ministry work: In the vision, I saw that I will work under a woman for a season, and the name of the female Minister was given to me and the kind of job she was doing. When the fullness of time came in January 2003 in Abuja, Nigeria, I met the said Minister and stayed under that Ministry until my assignment was over. It was in that season of my work with her Ministry that the writing anointing began to increase upon me.

Learn not to move out of God's timing. When the right time comes, He will clearly speak to you and send you out. When your season to end a phase of a ministry assignment comes, the burden or the passion to work or flow with the ministry you are serving may be lifted away from you.

Before God will send you to the next phase of Ministry assignment, He will ensure that He is through with you at the previous assignment. Sometimes, how effective we will be at your next level of Ministry assignment will depend on how you were able to fully cooperate with God in the previous Ministry phase. Beloved, be faithful in God's service whether someone is seeing you or not, whether someone is paying you or not. Learn to stay in God's divine location for your life or Ministry.

I also discovered that if God is through with you in a given place and you are delaying to move on even when He has deemed it necessary for you to move out, He will allow problems to come between you and where you are. If you persist in delaying, which may result to disobedience, you will start seeing the visions or dreams of impending dangers coming your way. If you still resist the move to change, then you will not be spared. (Job 33:14-24).

We might slip into some little errors as we are learning and growing in the Ministry, but don't allow your mistake to stop you from progressing in your walk with God. Don't be discouraged, keep moving. Mistakes are usually the products of greatness. But don't engage in unnecessary or self-imposed mistakes.

Vision grows. During the phase of the Ministry work I was engaged doing in Abuja- the intercessory ministry, I thought, 'that was all about my Ministry; I am called into the intercessory office and I will stay there till I am done with all my spiritual assignment in life.' I named my Ministry "Mercyseeds Intercessory Ministry." Burden and visions began to grow. The writing Ministry began to increase the influence of my Ministry and I started going places preaching or teaching what I wrote in the book as people were calling on me from all over after reading my books. As the writing Ministry came, I started going to ministries and corporate group to speak. This opened doors for itinerary Ministry to more places. One could function in more than one type of anointing in a given phase of Ministry. After a while, I received again by a vision from the Lord to stay in another intercessory team at the same while also being involved in writing and itinerary work. It was three anointing in manifestation; intercession for the Church and the nation as well as the writing and itinerary Ministry.

In Ministry, there is a time of moving and a time of camping. We need to learn when God wants us to camp so that we can receive some strategic words from Him and to know when to move. I had "rest times" between a given phase of one Ministry to another. They are transitional period.

Transition is not always an easy time. Sometimes, it is full of tribulation. One of the most difficult times of my Ministry is when I am in the transitional stage; the period of completion of one Ministry responsibility to start another. Before I embark on the assignment, I will make sure of what the Lord wants me to do; how to go about it and with whom to work with, and where to do the work. Sometimes, God will be silent and may not speak. At such time I will go around meeting some of my prophet friends to help me confirm what next to do. There are season in the life of a Minister that God may choose to be quiet.

Not every vision or revelations we receive are from God. Sometimes, our lust will make God to give us his permissive will. There is no total protection when we are walking in His permissive will. If your heart, at the first instance is not allowing you to do something, just obey the leading.

The influence of my writing began to increase as I learnt to obey the Holy Spirit to write and to distribute what He is giving me. There are trained writers and there are people called and anointed by God as writers. God will give you a gift or a call, but it is your responsibility to prayerful think on how to expound the vision. Enlarge your heart; think far and wide, let you gift or call affect many, let it affect nations.

Vision grows. Anointing grows. Influence in ministry grows. But we must deliberately discipline ourselves to grow and become like Christ. We must deal with any wrong character that is in us. Every level or phase of Ministry has its own unique challenges. A preacher once said; 'new levels, new demons.' The walk of faith is till the end. Learning and growing in the Ministry is a journey to the end. I learn daily. I am open to learn from young converts, even believers who just gave their lives to Christ today. Be careful when you detest learning. Be careful when your desire and passion for the things of the Spirit is diminishing; they are indications that you are backsliding.

Apostolic commission is a process; you don't just become an apostle immediately you are called by God. You grow into it, and then you will be commissioned into the office. It takes time. You must be trained and be matured before this stage. God wants all His people to grow into maturity. Do not be in a haste to give yourself a title, rather, allow the fruits of your Ministry to speak.

The Vision by Burden

"The BURDEN against Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite." (Nah. 1:1).

"The BURDEN which the prophet Habakkuk saw." (Hab.1:1).

"The BURDEN of the Word of the LORD Against the land of Hadrach, And Damascus its resting place (For the eyes of men And all the tribes of Israel Are on the LORD);" (Zech. 9:1).

Years ago, I saw a vision of young man who was residing in our village. He was arrested by the police for the offence he committed. Many people thought he will spend so many years in the prison. But the Lord showed me that within a short time the young man will be released.

The vision came to pass. And the Lord showed him mercy and he was released within a short time.

This vision was my first experience to notice a burden that brings visions. I had a strong concern in my heart about the young man though we were not friends, yet I received the vision of his release.

Burden produces vision. Learn to wait on God when you receive a burden in your heart about an issue. Sometimes the burden could be so strong that it will push you to the place of prayers. Learn to obey this leading. As you go to pray alone, learn to wait on God and meditate concerning the issue. In so doing, you will receive a vision or revelation concerning that matter.

I have once lost an anointing. I lost a burden and a vision. This is the story. In the year 2001, while still growing in the prophetic Ministry, one day I had a burden. It was a strange feeling in my heart. I had a presence on me and I felt half of my body as mine, while the other half of my body was possessed by the Holy Spirit.

I was in the midst of my friends chatting when this happened. So, I excused myself and went and ate some food mistaking that strange feeling for hunger. This was about 11:00am. Immediately I finished eating, I discovered that the presence left me. And I didn't know what the feelings meant. The same burden came on me the following day at about the same time, so, I withdrew to a place to be quiet and to pray. Suddenly, I was taken into the Spirit and I saw a timely vision concerning the Church.

Be sensitive to the presence of an anointing. Discern the purpose of any anointing that comes on you and act on it when necessary. Don't grieve the Holy Spirit to please people.

Abstinence from food or certain fleshly pleasures make our spirits to be more sensitive to spiritual things. When the anointing for a particular purpose comes on you, your flesh or feeling will want to act contrary to the leading. Your body usually likes comfort. It doesn't want to take the risk to follow the spiritual or to obey the Holy Spirit's leading instantly.

Burden produces vision. A burden is a sign and a mystery of an issue that needs God's help, which is being placed in your heart. A burden is a tangible spiritual resource that enables the Holy Spirit to speak or show you visions.

Vision and Timing Events

Anointing grows if we continue in consistent prayers; in the studying of the Word and in learning about a particular type of anointing and in consistent walk with God. Prophetic anointing grows. Apostolic anointing grows; writing anointing grows, evangelistic anointing grows, pastoral anointing grows, and music anointing also grows.

I found out that there are some departments or specific functions within a Ministry office. For example, in the prophetic Ministry, some are greatly used by God and have consistent result in prophetic intercession while others are more accurate in prophetic writing. Yet some in prophetic singing, some are accurate in prophetic evangelism. Some are prophetic equippers while others are highly used by God as prophetic seers. Though all are called into the prophetic Ministry, they are all effective in a particular area of prophetic anointing. We know in part and prophesy in part. One should know and develop his or her specific area of anointing in a given Ministry office.

Some Prophets are more accurate in foretelling events that are timely. Some could know the date, month and the year an event will happen.

The most difficult area I faced while growing in the prophetic Ministry is on knowing divine timing. God usually tell me a lot of things concerning individuals; the body of Christ in general, other churches and Ministries, families and countries. I will know what will happen but I wouldn't know the exact time the events will unfold.

One of the mistakes I made in the prophetic Ministry was when I tried to allocate time to when the event will happen. Even though more than 90% of what God shows me always come to pass, they did not happen at the time I predicted they will be. We sometimes get into the flesh. We need to wait for the time a prophetic vision or revelation will manifest. Prophetic ministry is a delicate Ministry. We must be careful not to make mistake. Learn quickly from your mistakes. When you make one mistake, people will take you for a false prophet; they will forget all your prophecies and visions that came to pass.

I am now very careful in giving time to when a prophetic vision will come to pass because they are so many reasons why a vision or a prophecy can fail. Sometimes, you will give an accurate date, month or the year an event will happen in a Ministry or in the life of an individual, family, Ministers or nations, but they will also have their parts to play. People could hasten or delay the fulfilment of a prophecy that has to do with date, month or year. Some visions or prophecies will not come to pass until the recipient ''pray-the-prophecy-through.'' Some people could doubt what God said He will do and others will not deal with certain sins in their lives. This makes the devil to fight and stop their blessings from coming. At the end, they will think that the vision given was not true.

There are other prophecies or vision with time or date that will surely come to pass regardless of whether or not the people do certain things. God in His sovereignty will decide to bring the said vision to pass.

The vision or prophecy that has to do with judgment can be averted. God can change His mind and will not destroy if the people repent as was the case with Jonah and the people of Nineveh. When Jonah preached to them to repent, they repented and God changed His plans. He didn't destroy them. There are prophecies that go with conditions. If the Lord changed His mind and did not bring judgment, some people will take the person who gave the vision or prophecy as false. His prophecy was correct but the plan was changed. That is why we must be careful of giving time to vision or revelation that has to do with impending judgment. Remember, God is a God of love, mercy and judgment.

But I have seen some of my foretelling that has to do with timing come to pass in recent times.

I am learning and growing to be more accurate in this area as the Lord helps me. There are certain spiritual secrets that God will only give to believers who are faithful in following Him. The more faithful you are, the more He entrusts you with an anointing in your specific area of call to be accurate. If God sees that such predictions that has to do with timing event will make us to be proud or destroy us, He may not give it to us in the first place. The condition of our hearts must be right with God. Don't operate in the prophetic visions or revelation for show, greed or fame. Remember the love for the brethren; the love for the lost soul and the love for God is the ultimate purpose.

God could tell us the set time an event will occur or how long it will last.

"For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the SET TIME of which God had spoken to him." (Ge..21:2)

"In the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the NUMBER OF THE YEARS SPECIFIED by the word of the LORD through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem." (Dan. 9:2).

Confirmatory and Misinterpreted vision

The primary role of a true prophet is intercession. A prophet is also a messenger. In the Old Testament, not all the people of God were prophets. They don't have the Spirit of God in them. So, they go to prophets or seers for guidance and confirmations. But in the New Testament, all believers have the Holy Spirit in them and God speaks and lead all His children. Prophets in the New Testament can only confirm what the believer has already received.

God has used me to confirm calling and issues in the lives of individuals and Ministries. When that is done, it enlarges, strengthens and empowers the recipient to move forward with what he had received from the Lord.

God has used me to confirm to some believers their prophetic Ministries or gifting and they are now operating in it powerfully. By the Holy Spirit, I have confirmed to so many evangelists, pastors, teachers about their call as they responded and moved into it thereby having great results. I found out that when a believer or a Minister receives accurately his or her specific or original anointing or call, the anointing will activate the person to operate effectively in it.

God doesn't only confirm Ministerial callings. He also confirms businesses, carriers, and courses in secular school that some of His children should study. I have experienced these. I have seen people who do not know their future careers, and God will confirm to them what they had been thinking to do with their lives.

I have seen hundreds of believers confirming to themselves about their callings, healing, restoration etc, saying what they do not naturally know about others when I am leading them in prophetic activation session. (Prophetic activation is part of what the Lord has sent me to do; activating and equipping believers to flow in the prophetic anointing).

In our activation session, I have seen so many sick people get healed; restoration reaching many, people weeping because they are receiving accurate personal prophetic word, and hundreds prophesying. It is very easy to prophesy. It is very easy to see vision. It is every easy to evangelize. Most times, we just need simple teaching. And that is why God has placed the five-fold ministry in the Church; the apostles, PROPHETS, teachers, evangelists and pastors: to train and equip believers to grow into maturity. A mature apostle can easily train and release other apostles. A mature prophet can easily equip and activate believers to operate in the prophetic gifts like vision, prophecy, prophetic intersession, prophetic teaching and music, etc. The same thing with teachers, evangelists, and pastors. They will produce after their kinds. We have countless testimonies in our activation session. Spiritual things are real. The Spirit realm is 'more real' than the physical realm.

Although there is a need to seek godly counsel and confirmation from believers and Ministers, we should not be over controlled by it nor are we to depend on people for constant confirmation of prophetic visions and revelations. God wants all believers to hear Him for themselves. You can hear Him accurately and see clear visions.

God used some prophets and teachers in Antioch church to CONFIRM and release Paul and Barnabas into the apostolic work. (Acts 16:1-6).

Misinterpreted Visions

There are certain locations and area of Ministry you will see in the Spirit which are only meant for intercession and not for you to physically go for ministering.

I once saw a vision that I was ministering in a certain town in Nigeria. I misinterpreted the prophetic revelation. I thought that I was to go there as a missionary. I thanked God that He helped me not to take that wrong step.

The purpose of the vision was for me to intercede for the Church in that region and not to go physically. Learn to discern spiritual locations for ministering and the places that you are to go physically.

We will achieve the whole purpose of a prophetic revelation if we follow it gradually. Learn and know exactly what you clearly received from God; give the vision or the revelation an accurate interpretation and have an accurate application of the vision. After receiving the vision with the right interpretation but with wrong application will make the purpose of the vision unachievable. If your prophetic vision is wrong, eventually, the interpretation and the application will be wrong. We must be accurate in receiving, interpreting, and applying prophetic visions and revelations.

I was told of a story of a believer who was praying and waiting on God to speak to him on what next to do with his life and he saw a vision. In the vision, it was written P.C. He wrongly interpreted the vision to mean 'Plant Church'. So, he went into church planting and suffered a lot in Ministry because it was not the will of God for him to Plant a Church. Then he withdrew and went into much prayer and waiting. Afterward he got the accurate interpretation. The meaning of the letter P.C. which he saw in the vision, was for him to 'Plant Corn'. He had peace and fully knew this time around that the interpretation was correct. Then he went into planting corn. The Lord blessed the farming work and the man prospered greatly. He prospered because that was the will of God for him, to Plant Corn. God's hand is only on what He speaks or shows.

We can misinterpret an accurate prophetic vision or a revelation if the condition of our heart is wrong. We need to remove worldly desires from our hearts. Our minds must be transformed by the Word of God. If the lust of the eye and the ''quick fame'' syndrome is in us, we can misinterpret a prophetic revelation. There is need for the fruits of the Spirit to be developed in us to guide us not to misinterpret prophetic visions and revelation. The fruit the Spirit are: love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. (Gal.5:22).

In the presence of many counselors there is safety. Do not be a lone ranger in life or Ministry. Share your vision to mature believers or to a Minister who can help you. We should be broken and teachable to learn from others. Don't be in a haste to act when it comes to major issues of life and Ministry. Pray through it, think through it and allow God to lead you along. Among the five fold Ministry, it is only the prophetic Ministry that Paul said it should be judge. This means that even a mature prophet can miss out either in receiving or interpreting a prophetic revelation, while others could miss the application of the prophetic revelation. Prophetic Ministry in the New Testament is different from the prophetic Ministry in the Old Testament. In the Old Testament, the people were not yet born again, In other words, the Holy Spirit was not IN them. He only comes UPON them to prophesy and then departs from them immediately they finish prophesying. But in the New Testament He is IN us, and our minds sometimes are active when He is speaking through us. That is why Paul said that the spirit of a prophet is subject to the prophet.

We could grow daily in our gifting and calling. Let us keep learning to improve ourselves to be accurate in the receiving, interpreting, and in the application of prophetic visions and revelation.

Destiny Vision

A destiny vision is a revelation you received from the lord concerning your future that is inescapable to your heart. It is the plan of God for your future. And each time you remember it, you just know that it is from the Lord.

That was the kind of vision that Joseph received from the Lord. It is called a destiny vision because it has to do with your destiny. That vision came to pass after about 13 years. If you had received any dream or visions from the Lord and it has to do with something in the future, wait for it. God will bring it to pass in His own time.

Destiny vision gives strength to the recipient to keep moving. Jesus could continue to press and passed through the crucifixion pain because of the Joy that He saw in advance. Such visions will be tested by God. The enemy will also work hard to ensure that you abort such a vision.

Several people had received a destiny vision from the lord when they were in their youth but as they advanced in life, they allowed the vision to fade away.

Have you received a destiny vision from the Lord? If you haven't received, I encourage you to pray; press on and if possible fast until you receive it. "Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know." Jer. 33:3.

The purpose of a destiny vision is to bring a blessing to a generation or a nation. The destiny dream Joseph received came to pass, and it helped thousands of people from dying by famine. You may not really know the fullness of what the Lord would do by that vision, but a generation, one day, will be so glad that you were there for them because you obeyed God and waited for the fulfilment of the vision.

Have you received a destiny vision from the Lord?

Part Two:

Meaning of Prophetic Ministry

Prophecy is simply speaking what is in the mind of God by divine utterance; a direct word from God that brings encouragement, edification, exaltation, direction or a warning.

A prophet is a born again believer of Jesus Christ; a servant of God, called and set apart for the work of the Ministry. He is called "Nabi" in Hebrew meaning a spokesman for God. When God has a matter to tell His people: the corporate church, individual believers, and to the world, He uses a man. He gives a man a word to speak to the people. "And He Himself gave some to be apostles, SOME PROPHETS, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:" (Eph. 4:12). It is God who gives this ministry.

Since God is immortal and invisible, and the Holy Spirit is a Spirit, then the prophet must be able to relate properly with the realm of the spiritual to receive divine messages for the people.

To stand in the OFFICE OF A PROPHET, you must first of all be a born again believer of Jesus Christ; filled with the Holy Spirit with at least two of the revelation gifts operating constantly in your life or Ministry, and have the divine call of God upon your life. The gift of Prophecy is for three main functions: edification, exhortation, and comfort. However, the Office of a Prophet has authority invested in it to function in a higher realm of Ministry than the Holy Spirit's gift of prophecy.

These are some of the functions of the office of a prophet:

• Providing direction. (2 Kings 5:10).

• Giving words of correction. (Ezek. 3:18)

• Pronouncing divine decrees of God's judgments or blessings.

• Impartation of spiritual gifts and anointing Ministries. (1Tim.4:14). King Saul and David were anointed by the prophet Samuel. (1 Sam. 10:1). The first High Priest Aaron was anointed by the prophet Moses. Prophets could anoint other prophets: Elijah anointed Elisha. (1 Kings 19:16).

• They are custodian of the secrets of God. (Amos 3:7).

These are the revelation gifts that constitute the office of a prophet:

1. The gift of the word of wisdom: This is the revelation or vision on the will and purposes of God or what is in the mind of God concerning people, places or things that will happen in the future. It is not the same as the wisdom of God or the spirit of wisdom that is found in Isaiah 11:1-2. It is a word of wisdom. For example, God told Jeremiah that the children of Israel would be taken as captives to Babylon and it came to pass. He spoke of what will happen in the future. (Jer.25).

2. The gift of the word of knowledge: This is the revelation or vision on the will and purposes of God or what is in the mind of God concerning people, places or things that happened in the past or something that is happening in the present. It is different from knowledge. A good example is the story Elisha and his servant Gehazi. He saw when Gehazi went behind to collect the money from Namaan that Elisha refused to collect. (Kings5:20-27). Jesus knew that the Samaritan woman had five husbands in the past and at the present she had one. (John4:18). This is a word of knowledge, speaking about the past or the present.

I saw a vision which was a gift of the word of knowledge. I saw some men brought powerful explosives, rockets and some sophisticated war weapons into Nigeria. When I saw that, we began to pray to intercept it. Few days later the people were arrested. It was a word of knowledge because, at that time, the people were in Nigeria. People didn't know but God knew and He revealed that to me.

3. The gift of discerning of spirit: This is the ability to see into the spirit realm by a vision or revelation. It is not the same as discernment; it is a higher level of discernment. The Lord opened the eyes of Elisha's servants who were afraid TO SEE thousands of chariots of fire surrounding them for their protection against their enemies (2Kings 6:17). In the New Testament, Paul SAW (into the realm of the spirit) a vision of an angel who told him they will not perish in the sea (Acts 27:23-26).

The FREQUENCY of the manifestations is what establishes you into the office.

"I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have MULTIPLIED visions, and used similitude by the ministry of the prophets." (Hosea 12:10).

Roles of the Prophetic Ministry

Two Major Roles

Your role is your function. Every Ministry call has a specific function. Your function is the reason you are in that office. In soccer, the role of the referee is to officiate the match; they signal through the whistle on when to start, when a wrong is done, when a team scored a ball, when the game is finished, etc. He is not to play the ball. He is not a defender nor a striker, but a referee. So it is with the prophetic Ministry. There are roles the prophet must operate by. First of all he is:

1. An Intercessor

Intercession is standing in the gap between God and the people. Praying and pleading for people who are out of the way of truth that God's love and mercy be shown on them until their needs are met.(Isaiah 62:1-2).

When God wanted to destroy the Israelites because of their sins in the wilderness, Moses pleaded for mercy on their behalf that God should not judge them. That intercession made God to change His mind. Jesus interceded for Peter that Satan will not take hold of him completely. (Lk. 22:31-32).

Because prophets are burden bearers, God will bring to their spirit the needs of the people or the needs of God so that they will pray effectively. A ''prayerless'' prophet must give an account to God for not interceding for the needs God is giving to him. Genuine prophets love intercession. All prophets are intercessors but not all intercessors are prophets. They must always ask God to give them the burden, grace and strength to intercede.

The purpose of intercession is to intercept demonic plans from happening.

Sometimes when God wants to release judgment, Moses will intercede. We have interceded and stopped some bad things from happening, but there are certain things God shows you that must come to pass. He only shows you just for you to be aware because He shares His secret with His prophets. Amos 3:8.

I was in Jos, Plateau State of Nigeria in 2001. There I saw a vision of a major crisis that was to come upon the city. It was the first of its kind. When I told some people about it, they did not believe. When the very day the crisis was to begin came, early that morning, I knew it. Intercession didn't stop it. It came to pass. God allowed the shakings to happen inspite of our intercessions. He allowed that just to judge the wicked.

2. Messenger

A messenger is a person who goes on errand. He is given a message in a word form as well as through material things or services from one person to another. A prophet is a messenger of the Lord. He carries God's message in form of the "word" to the people. Since he has to speak for God, his message has to be God's message. For example Prophet Moses would go before the Lord to hear what God had to say concerning His people to be conveyed to them.

"And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, GO, SHEW THYSELF unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth." (1 King 18:1).

"To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I SENT UNTO YOU, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;" (Jer. 26:5).

"And in these days CAME PROPHETS FROM JERUSALEM UNTO ANTIOCH. And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar." (Act 11:27-28).

Although the prophet takes messages from the Lord to the needed people, not all the messages he receives is meant for the people. He must learn to find out the ones that are meant only for intercession. He should learn to know the right and exact time to speak God's word.

God loves telling His prophets what He is doing now and what He will do in the future. Therefore, the prophet must be very sensitive to listen to the Holy Spirit. He should also learn to know if the vision or revelation he receives is for him to tell the people or to remain silent. Do not allow events and situations motivate you to give a prophecy. Though the word comes from God in a particular season, let God alone lead you. A word from God is to meet a need which is solved in a season.

"How forceful are right words!..." (Job 6:25).

Since the message is for the people, the prophet must learn to know how to properly interpret a message from the Lord before application. A symbol may have more than one meaning. For example the word "rock" in Matt. 16:18. Rock could mean a revelation - upon this rock (revelation), I will build my Church. A rock could also mean stability. Rock is a strong and immovable stone. It speaks of stability. Peter was one of the most unstable disciples that Jesus had. And Jesus had to prophesy on him that he will be changed from instability to stability (Rock). The maturity of a believer is a very crucial issue when it comes to speaking God's message to people. God always want believers to mature in faith before establishing them in the prophetic office.

In speaking God's messages to the people, learn to only say what He told you: do not add or subtract from His word. If it is a warning or correction say it. And if you are not sent by God to explain, don't explain or you might add "your own" words of human wisdom. This may distort the entire message. It must not be in five sentences or five minutes of reporting the prophecy. Say the EXACT words He gave you even though it might take you a minute or an hour.

The prophet must be very careful not to be proud of this awesome responsibility but to embrace and act with all humility.

OTHER ROLES OF THE PROPHETIC MINISTRY

Confirmation

God uses the prophets to confirm to people what He has already spoken to them. Believers usually hear from God by the still small voice but most time doubt the word. Sometimes they know it is a word from the Lord but would be fearful to act. When God sends a word of confirmation by his prophet, that word encourages the believer to act without restrain. The word they speak is meant to confirm what God had already spoken to you. The word could confirm a sin you need to stop indulging yourself in; a word to confirm your spiritual assignment and so on. It ranges from personal message to international messages.

Though prophets confirm words for us, we should learn to receive from God on our own without always having to receive from a prophet. In the New Testament church- and this is the time- God speaks to all believers. Learn to judge prophecies because it is not all what people say "thus says the Lord" that are all from the Lord. Some of the words could be a mixture of what the Lord is saying while others may be from their human thought. Wisdom also demands that you just don't take a prophetic word released to you when it does not confirm anything in your spirit. It could be that in the first place you were not sensitive enough to hear God or the word is meant for a distance time.

It is imperative to note that whatever we receive should be in line with the word of God as well as the peace of God guarding our heart. God sends prophets to bring to us confirmation.

Correction

The prophetic Ministry is the eye of the body of Christ. God reveals the wrong that is happening in the lives of the people to His prophets so they could bring a word of correction.

They know the mind of God because they are always leaning their hearts to the heart of the father. Because of their constant touch with the father they easily know when people or the church is deviating from the will and the purposes of God. Elijah was used to correct the confusion in Israel. (1 Kings 18:21).

Edification

Edification means to build up. Prophets are inspired preachers; teachers or both preachers and teachers of the word God. Their word builds and strengthens believers to continue in the word and to grow in the grace.

"But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to EDIFICATION, and EXHORTATION, and COMFORT." (1 Cor. 14:3).

Prophecy is for edification, exaltation and comfort. There was a time that Paul was in a storm at the sea and he spoke by the spirit of prophecy to the rest of the people in that ship that there shall not be a loss of any one because an angel of God appeared and told him so. "... And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship. For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, saying, fear not paid; thou must be brought before Caesar; and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee. Wherefore, Sirs, be of good cheers; for I believe God that it shall be even as it was told me." (Acts. 27:22-25).

These words edified the people and gave them Hope. When believers are weak and discouraged, a prophetic word of hope will be released to them.

To Teach believers Prophecy

It is the responsibility of the prophet to teach believers about prophecy. Prophecy is speaking forth the mind of God by inspired utterance directly from the spirit- not a declaration of a prior knowledge. Mature prophets have been equipped over time by God so that they raise others. One of the reasons God gave the Ministry gift is to equip believers in the Ministry, including the prophetic

To Give Warning

Since they see ahead, they are to warn the people of coming dangers; to let the people know in advance before it happens so that they could try to stop it completely or reduce its effect. They are more sensitive to impending troubles such as the presence of evils and calamities than the average Christian. Heed to their warning.

"Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets." (Amos 3:7).

To Give Direction

They give words of direction. This direction could be a word for us to escape an impending disaster or to position ourselves for a blessing from God. Sometimes the word comes to direct us to the place of assignment. It could also be a word to inform believers about the breaking forth of new seasons and what they should do in every new season. For example, when there was about to be a famine in the world, God used Prophet Agabus to let believers become aware so that the people could store food in advance and prevent starvation. That prophetic word of Agabus came to pass. Acts 11:27-28. This is a directive prophecy. Another example was when the land of Jericho was not productive.

Prophet Elisha had to instruct the people to put salt in a bowl of water and pour it into the spring of water and the very water that caused death and barrenness was healed. (2 Kings 2:18-21).

In the year 2005, I went to preach in a village known as Ochudu in Benue State of Nigeria. The Spirit of God came upon me and I prophesied that God wants to raise a prayer force in that land, mostly among women. Those words of direction stirred the hearts of the women in that land and they started a powerful prayer meeting that continues till date.

Healings and Miracles

Prophetic Ministry is mighty in words and deeds. The prophetic Ministry of Jesus was mighty in words and deed before God and all the people. (Luke24:19). Deeds in this verse means healings and miracles. Healing and miracles follow the prophetic Ministry.

Healing occurs in three dimensions in this Ministry. First, by the healing anointing as was the case of Jesus and the woman with the issue of blood that was sick for 12 years. Healing anointing went out of Jesus' body and healed her. Matt. 5:25-30.

Secondly, healing occurs by a word of knowledge or by the spoken word. In the case of Jesus and the centurion man whose servant was sick. He needed Jesus to just say a "word" to effect the healing of his servant and it came to pass. His servant was healed by the spoken words of Jesus, Luke 7:6-10. Miracles that happen in the prophetic office are mostly by a prophetic word (declaration) as released through the vehicle of the word of knowledge.

Lastly God could use a prophet to instruct you to do certain things or he will use the holy oil to heal you. Miracles happen by the gift of the working of miracles.

The Nature of the Prophetic Ministry

One-to-one Ministering

I found out that one of the major ways the prophet ministers to the people is on one-on-one basis. God will give them a message for a specific person and they will go deliver the message to that person. Sometimes God uses them to give divine words to individuals in a gathering. Not that they don't engage in public ministering, many prophets I know are ministering to a large number of people. But they usually have specific message for specific people. For example, God sent Prophet Samuel to Saul, 1 Sam 15:10-end. God sent Nathan to David, 1Sam 12:1. Agabus was sent to give a personal word to Paul, Act 21:11.

When God sends you to give a personal message to a person, ensure that the environment is conducive for you to tell the person. Do not make a private message public. Once I had given a private message in public. I was supposed to call the sister aside but I told her the message in the presence of her friends. That created a little problem for me. Do not share publicly private message so that people should feel you are highly prophetic. Overcome the habit of trying to prove a point. And do not be careless about other people's messages. The message might not make any sense to you, but don't waste time to say it when the Holy Spirit has deemed it fit to be said. Such a word could be a mighty word for the person concerned.

There are times when you are not sure on whether or not to share the message. Usually, you might become restless about it. In such a situation, you would need to wait for awhile. If the message is from God, at the right time the Holy Spirit will so arrange your path to cross with the person and then you can give the message. Have you ever spoken out a message and thereafter you felt 'guilty', 'condemned' and 'not free' in your heart? That was a sign that you did not share the right message or it was the right message but it was shared at the wrong time.

When it comes to sharing prophetic messages, you need to know the 5w's and H of it. The 5w's are the WHAT, WHOM, WHO, WHERE, and WHY. And the Letter H represents the HOW. I discovered that you don't bother much for a confirmatory word from others when you genuinely received that word of knowledge from the Lord.

From the book of Genesis to revelation you will notice in several places that God specializes in dealing with people on a one-on-one basis. That is also how He designed the prophetic Ministry.

Moving Ministry

A major part of the prophetic Ministry is a roving Ministry. It is not a stationary Ministry. It is ongoing, a dynamic work. A pastor has the anointing or an enablement from the Holy Spirit to care and nurture believers for an extended period of time in a stable way. A pastor is a very patient servant. Many teachers of God's word also have the ability to do the same as the pastor. True pastors have teaching gift and many true teachers have the pastoral grace.

But a prophet is not like them. He is sent by God to a specific church, Ministry or people with a specific message. And when he has delivered the 'whole message,' God will give him another assignment somewhere. In his location, he will keep preaching or teaching the message the Lord gave him over and over until the people finally received or reject the message, and then another burden will be given to him. These prophets that become very stable in a place are likely to be quickened by God into the apostolic Ministry. How long the prophet stays in a place is best known by God as it will not be for a long period of time as that of the pastor.

There are Ministers that are inconsistent in staying in a place; they are probably immature, lack direction, or they are running away from the challenges of the great responsibility of stationary Ministry.

"And HE WENT FROM YEAR TO YEAR IN CIRCUIT to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places. And his return was toRamah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD." (1Sam. 7:16-17).

Testing of the Ministry

It is the perfect will of God for Him to test us in the Ministry. Before Joseph's word came to him, the word of the Lord tried him. Testing is part of the package. What you do with the testing will determine how far you will get to in life and Ministry. And the testing will not just be in one area of your life, but in all areas. Jesus was tested in all areas. We must be tested in all areas. For example, in the area of faithfulness generally: in money, to serving others; faithfulness in little things, test in the area of sex, and in the development of the fruits of the Spirit in our lives. There will be a particular area where the testing will be dominant. We will always be tested in the area of our needs and weaknesses. God tests us and Satan also tempts us.

"And it came to pass after these things that God did TEMPT Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am." Gen. 22:1

Abraham the father of faith was tested. The meaning of the word "tempt" in the above verse means to test or try a person. Secondly, it was his only son, Isaac, whom he loved. You will be tested in the area of the things you love the most. If it is in the area of relationships, He will allow at least two people to disappoint you or situations will come between you and someone that will result in disagreement.

God tested Elijah in the area of receiving prophetic word. When Elijah ran away from Jezebel and got to a mountain, the Lord visited him. God allowed the earthquake sound; the whirlwind, and fire on the mountain. The first three were a test of his prophetic ability to hear and see into the Spirit realm. The Scriptures recorded that the Lord passed by and there was an earthquake and the whirlwind but He was not in it. He passed by again and there was a fire but the Lord was not there until the still small voice came to Elijah. What a test! In the four realms of the visitations, it was God who passed by. It was God who allowed all of that, but He was not in them.

Sometimes we want to hear the earthquake sound or see fire before we move to do the things of God. Believers no longer want to obey the still, small voice but only want to hear the audible voice of the Holy Spirit. Whether the revelation or vision is laudable, spectacular or it is by the still, small voice, make sure God is in it. A measure of spiritual authority will be given to a believer who passed through challenge that was a test of his call or character. If you are going out to give direction as a prophet to people, you will face a season of uncertainties, misunderstanding or confusion. As the understanding and direction comes, you will be in a position to lead others who must come into that season of not understanding the voice of the Lord.

A part of the challenges that God used to test Abraham was in the area of his childlessness. God had to close Sarah's womb to try Abraham. Most of the teachings about God, life, obedience, patience, self-control, which Abraham received, were based on his childlessness. Apart from training at the Bible school, God will use one of your desperate needs to teach you Ministry. It is our responsibility to know the area of your desperate need or a need that seems to be defying prayers and fasting. As you patiently wait and learn in that school, you will grow to maturity in Him. It is a school we must not be in a rush to graduate because there are lessons that are attached to each of the facet of the seasons of our lives or Ministry which the needs are awaiting solutions. If we miss a step of a lesson along the season of our test, we will lack the full spiritual authority to deliver anyone that will come to us with such a need. By His mercy and love, He will draw you backward to that last class until you learn before taking your next season. Always find out the answer to this question on a weekly or monthly basis: "Lord what lesson do you want me to learn that I have been running away from?

Prophet Ezekiel was tested. The Lord took him to a valley of dry bones and asked him if the dry bones can live again. This is a question that every true contemporary prophet must be able to answer correctly. Ezekiel answered: "thou knowest." (Ezekiel 37:1-end). This implies that he was sure the dry bones will live again. His answer was half yes and half no. In prophetic ministry we must come to the assurance that all things are possible with God.

Do not be afraid to take a step in ministering prophetically when God is prompting you to do so. The first attempt may not be accurate but on each of these attempts you make, there will be a lesson to be learnt. In the school of the prophetic, God would want you to learn about how your human spirit could speak words that are not from God. Our human spirit speaks to us. You will also learn about how to receive and interpret visions and revelations. He also wants you to discern demonic voice so that you will not be led astray. It is important that you write down the dealings of God on your life so that you will not easily forget. It is a school. Then you will begin to make comparison with what was and what is, and then you can draw accurate conclusions. It is important that you get believers who have gone ahead of you in the Ministry call: those with years of experience to counsel you. "...and in multitude of counsellors there is safety. (Prov. 24:6).

Prophets in the Old Testament and New Testament moved together. 1Sam 10:10, Acts 11:27-28. This is to help the emerging prophets on their learning and the mistakes they will make in the course of Ministry. All we know is all that we have learnt by knowledge and experience, and not all we have learnt that is to be known.

I want you to bear in mind that there might be mistakes in the process. It is by faith and Grace. Mistake is not a sign that you are failing but winning. The prophetic ministry in the Old Testament is different from the one in the New Testament. In the Old Testament, they were not born again, the Holy Spirit was not in them. He comes upon them temporary and then He departs. But in the New Testament, the Holy Spirit is in us. And because he is in us, our mind which is the place of reasoning or knowledge is sometimes active to also speak. That is why Paul said that we should allow our minds to be transformed. More so, prophetic ministry is the only ministry that Paul said it should be judged because it is possible our human words might want to enter a little. All the great prophetic ministries today are product of many great mistakes, except the person with just a gift of prophecy not the prophetic office, who could just prophecy at a spur of a moment and that is all, until another time the prophesying anointing comes. Rejoice at the little mistakes you made in your little place, do not be embarrassed. It is better that it happened there than when you would make it in an international scale. Jesus is the only perfect example of a perfect man. We can sincerely and honestly make mistake.

No prophet is a professional; it is by God's grace and mercy that we received it. All the true prophets I know are trying to be more sensitive to God's ways and teachings till now. There are no graduates is the school of the Spirit. God will never make us know all things on how He speaks. He does this to make us more humble and committed to hearing Him always. He does not want pride to overtake us.

Ministering by the word

The first major weapon of a prophet is the word of God in his mouth.

• "Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I HAVE PUT MY WORDS IN THY MOUTH." (Jer. 1:19).

• God told Ezekiel to face the south and drop his word. "Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and DROP THY WORD toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field. ( Ezekiel 20:45).

• Elijah said that there shall not be rain except by HIS WORD. (1kings 17:1).

• He said to Isaiah: "And I HAVE PUT MY WORDS IN THY MOUTH, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. (Isaiah 51:16).

God confirms the word of his servant, and perform the counsel of his messengers. (Isaiah 44:26).

I discovered that many of the healings in the prophetic office is done prophetically, that is, by a word of knowledge, you will declare a word, and the person will be healed. Although laying on of hands to heal the sick is part of this ministry. For example, Elisha sent a word to Naaman the leper to go and wash himself in river Jordan. That word healed Naaman when he obeyed. Not only that healing is released by a spoken word in prophetic ministry, but a blessing could be pronounce to individual, things and nations by a spoken word. Words carry power especially from the mouth of a true prophet. There are number of angels that bring to pass what the prophet speaks.

Learn to prophesy to your needs. After fulfilling all righteousness prophesy: that is after praying to God, paying tithes, offering, and walking in the love of God. Prophesy to your situations, wife, husband, family, ministries, people, cities, plants, land, atmosphere and to the nations.

A single prophetic word can change people, things and nations.

Over 7,000 Biblical Prophets and Prophetesses

There are so many prophets and prophetess in the Old and New Testament of the Bible. They were all unique; different in methods, messages, the manners God spoke to them and how they approached matters.

Prophet Abraham: "Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a PROPHET, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine." (Gen 20:7).

Prophet Moses: "I will raise them up a PROPHET from among their brethren, LIKE UNTO THEE (MOSES), and I will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him." (Deut 18:18).

Prophet Samuel: "...and all Israel from Dan even to Ber-Sheba knew that Samuel was established to be a PROPHET." (1Sam 3:20).

Prophet Nathan: "...Now the rest of the acts of Solomon . . . are written in the Book of NATHAN the PROPHET." (2Chro. 9:20).

Prophet David: King David operated powerfully in the prophetic office. He prophesied the emancipation of Africa (Ethiopia and Egypt) and how God will produce Apostles from Africa. (Ps. 68:31).

Prophet Elijah: "And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Elijah (the PROPHET) in the third year saying..." (1King 18:1).

Prophet Elisha: "But Jehoshaphat said, is there not here a PROPHET of the Lord that we may inquire of the Lord by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, He is ELISHA the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah." (2Kings 3:11).

Company of Prophet with Samuel: "And Saul sent messengers to take David, and when they saw the COMPANY OF PROPHETS prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the spirit of God upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied." (1Sam 19:20).

The Young Prophet: "And, behold there came a man of God (the YOUNG PROPHET out of Judah by the word of the Lord unto Bethel...)1Kings 13:1

The Old Prophet: "Now there dwelt an OLD PROPHET in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God (the young prophet) had done that day in Bethel...). (1Kings 13:11).

The 7,000 Prophets: "Yet I have left me seven thousand." (1Kings 19:18).

The Hidden Prophets: "...Obadiah took an HUNDRED PROPHETS, and hid them by fifty in a care...(1Kings 18:4).

Prophetess Miriam: "And Miriam the PROPHETESS, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. (Ex. 15:20).

Prophetess Deborah: "And Deborah, a PROPHETESS the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time." (Judges 4:4).

Prophetess Anna: "And there was one Anna, a PROPHETESS, the daughter of phanuel, of the tribe of Aser..." (Luke 2:36).

Prophetess Huldah: "...so Hilkiah the priest, and Alikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, went unto HULDAH THE PROPHETESS, the wife of Shallum . . . . they communed with her. And she said unto them, thus said the Lord God of Israel.(2kings2:14-15).

Prophet Isaiah: "The vision of Isaiah (the PROPHET, the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning...). (Isaiah 1:1).

Prophet Jeremiah: ".... and I ordained thee a PROPHET to the nations." (Jer. 1:5).

Prophet Ezekiel: Prophet Ezekiel saw and heard consistently in the spirit realm. (Ezek. 1:3-end. Ezek. 6:1, Ezek. 7:1, Ezek. 8:1-end).

Prophet Daniel: He saw and heard consistently into the spirit realm. (Dan 2:19, Dan. 7:1-2.

Prophet Haggai: "Then the prophets, Haggai the PROPHET." (Ezr. 5:1).

Prophet Zechariah: "Then the PROPHETS, Haggai the prophet and ZECHARIAH the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem..." (Ezr. 5:1).

Prophet Habakkuk: "The burden which Habakkuk the PROPHET did see." (Hab. 1:1).

Prophet Jonah: "...and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of PROPHET JONAH." (Matt. 12:39).

Prophet Silas: "...and Silas, being PROPHETS also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words and confirmed them." (Acts 15:32).

Prophet Judas: "...Judas... being PROPHETS also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words and confirmed them. (Acts 15:32).

Prophets with prophet Agabus: "And in those days came PROPHETS from Jerusalem unto Antioch. And there stood up one among them..." (Acts 11:27).

Prophet Agabus: "And as we tarried, there many days, there came down from Judea a certain PROPHET, named AGABUS." (Act 21:10).

Prophet Gad: "And the PROPHET Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth." (1Sam 22:5).

Prophet Oded: "But a PROPHET of the Lord was there whose name was oded." (2Chro. 28:9).

Prophet Asaph: "... and of Asaph the seer (PROPHET). (2Chro. 29:300.

Prophet Malachi: "The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. This Prophet Malachi both heard and saw into the spirit realm." (Mal 1:1).

Prophet Hanani: "And at that time Hanani the seer (PROPHET) came to Asa King of Judah. (2Chro. 16:7).

Prophet Micaiah: "there is yet one man, by whom me inquire of the Lord . . . . . the same is MICAIAH (the PROPHET) the son of Imla." (2Chro 18:7).

Prophet Iddo: "...and in the vision of Iddo the seer (PROPHET)" (2Chro. 9:29).

Prophet John the Baptist: "...And his father Zachariah was filled with the Holy Ghost and Prophesied . . . . thou . . . shall be the PROPHET of the highest." (Luke 1:67).

John the beloved: He both saw and heard consistently into the Spirit realm. (Rev. 1:10-19, 4:1-end, 8:1-2).

Paul the Apostle: He both saw and heard consistently into the Spirit world. (2Cor. 12:1-4, Gal. 1:12, Acts 27:22-25).

Prophet Joel: Prophet Joel both saw and heard consistently into the Spirit realm. (Joel 1,2).

Prophet Amos: "The words of Amos,... which he SAW . . . the both Saw and heard consistently into the Spirit realm. (Amos. 1:1, Amos 2:1).

Prophet Obadiah: The vision of Obadiah. Thus, said the Lord God concerning... . He both saw and heard consistently into the Spirit realm.(Obadiah 1).

Prophet Hosea: He both saws and heard into the Spirit realm constantly.(Hosea 1:1, Hosea 3:1).

Prophet Micah: He both saw and heard consistently into the Spirit realm. (Micah 1:1, 6:1).

Prophet Nahum: The burden of Ninevah. The book of the visions of Nahum. He both saw and heard consistently into the spirit world. (Nahum 1:10.

Prophet Zephaniah: He consistently saw and heard into the spirit world. (Zeph. 1:1).

CONTEMPORARY PROPHETS AND PROPHETESSES

God will not leave is without a witness. He spoke, speaking from Genesis to the coming of Jesus: He spoke from to the early apostolic age till now God will never be quite. Even during the 400 years of silence: the inter-testament period, that is, from the period between the Book of Malachi and the Book of Matthew. Prophets Anna and Simeon were His witnesses.

There were hundreds contemporary prophets and prophetesses. There is at least one prophet in every nation of the earth at this time.

The Prophetic Office and Other Ministries

We are meant to complement one another. Like the human body, the eye needs the legs, the legs needs the hand and so on. Paul writing to the Corinthians said:

"But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:" (Cor. 12:20-24).

No ministry is an island; in self-existing. They are to be interwoven and no ministry is more honorable to God than the other. The apostles, prophets, evangelist, pastors and teachers are ministry gifts and each has it peculiar anointing and responsibility. God rewards our faithfulness to what He has entrusted into their hands.

The Apostle and the Prophet

A true apostolic anointing could operate in the four other anointing of the five fold ministry listed in Eph. 4:11. It has the ability to bring to pass what it is design in the spirit. The prophet sees into the Spirit and reports to the apostle and then the apostle will bring it to physical manifestation.

Most prophets who have a strong teaching grace could be used by God to establish some form of apostolic ministry. Every true apostle operates in the prophetic powerfully. Apostles could both see and bring it to pass. God will reveal a thing to the apostle, and then will reveal the same to the prophet so that it will confirm what the apostle receives for action.

Hearing + Acting = Prophetic or Apostolic manifestation

A very good example of apostle and prophet working together is Paul and Silas. Silas was a prophet. (Act. 15:32). They walked together in the ministry. When an apostle operates with the prophetic, the work will be done faster. "And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; (Eph.2:20).

The Pastor and the Prophetic

A pastor is a shepherd. He has a caring heart and is a patient servant of God. He nurtures the members and helps them in their spiritual growth. But the church has a lot of needs that pastoral anointing cannot alone handle it. So, he needs to have a prophet that will reveal the mind of God concerning people and things so that they could have a specific direction.

The pastor can ask God for the gift of prophecy. The scriptures encourage us to desire the gift of prophecy so that could see and hear about specific need in the Spirit. With the gift of the word of knowledge, Jesus won the Samaritan woman at the well and her community. (John 4:1-40).

The Evangelist and the Prophetic

An evangelist is first of all a born-again believer of Jesus Christ, who is filled with the Holy Spirit and has a heart for the lost soul; he loves evangelism more than any other ministry activity. His joy is when sinners are saved. He is highly anointed for the unbelievers. He goes to the world to fetch them.

He is not equipped with the spiritual equipment to minister to the leadership anointing, to raise, mature, and speak to ministers. Except the one who has allow much of the dealings of God to pass through in his life and ministry over the years. If you put them in the place of leadership when they are immature, many things will go wrong.

The primary sign that one is an evangelist is when the gift of healing is manifesting consistently in his ministry. I have watched over the years that any believer who shout aloud while preaching, sometimes tall by height or is very aggressive, people thinks he is an evangelist. He can ask God to release the prophetic nature upon him to help in his ministrations, to help him see the specific land for evangelization, the specific people to be saved and the people that should be healed at a particular point in time. Apostle Peter was an apostolic evangelist. He saw the sick man and knew he needed healing, the leper was healed. (Acts 3:1-8). This is the manifestation of one of the prophetic grace called the gift of the word of knowledge in operation. Then the gift of faith followed when he lifted the man up to walk. Sometime the gift of faith follows their ministrations.

The Teacher and the Prophetic

The joy of a teacher is when the saints embrace the Word of truth and are guided by it. They are glad when people study the word for their deliverance and healing. He loves to gradually, patiently and logically teach the Word of God. He feels frustrated when saints suffer because of their lack of knowledge of the word of God. He is not the type that has gone to a teaching college to learn how to teach, but he is supernaturally anointed to teach. He just finds himself teaching people. If he does not hear well from God, it will be difficult to know the right scripture or spiritual food the saints need at a particular point. The fact that he can teach does not mean he should teach anything that comes to his mind. He needs to be prophetic, to hear accurately from the Holy Spirit.

"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver." (Prov. 25:11).

The Prophetic Office and the Gift of Prophecy

The office of the prophet is different from the gift of prophecy. These are two different issues. We need to also understand that they are two different words "office" and "gift". An office is different from a gift. An office is a position of trust and authority given to a person to occupy but a gift is a limited, small fraction of a responsibility.

Ministry offices are the same with ministry gift: these are callings. The five ministry offices are listed in Eph. 4:11-12: apostles, PROPHETS, pastors, evangelists and teachers. And in 1Cor. 12:1-10, the gifts of the Holy Spirit were listed: the gift of prophecy, the gift of the word of knowledge, the gift of the word of wisdom, the gift of healing and the gift of the working of miracles, etc. Jesus gives the ministry gifts Eph. 4:7-11, while the Holy Spirit gives the gift of the Holy Spirit, 1Cor. 12:1-10.

The Prophetic Office

Although I have define what the prophetic ministry is in Chapter one, I will like put down some of the sentences here.

To be in an office is to have all the material necessary to help in the smooth running of the office. In the secular office, if you are a director, you may have a secretary, personal assistant, and other things working with you. Many functions comprise an office. In prophetic office one must be a born-again believer of Jesus Christ, filled with the Holy Spirit and with at least two of the revelation gifts plus the gift of prophecy manifesting consistently in his life and ministry. The revelation gifts that constitute the prophetic office were explained in chapter one of this book.

This ministry is part and parcel of a prophet who is in this ministry office. He is concerned daily on how the church and the people will be directed: to hear the voice of God and obey it. He finds joy and fulfilment when people are responding and craving to hearing the will of God and to obey Him. He finds joy when his prophecies came to pass. He feels a strong prophetic anointing upon him before, during or after prophesying in a meeting. Thereafter, he becomes more humble and feels like to hide himself from people after his prophecy.

It comes first of all by a call to the ministry. As you respond to the call, after a time the anointing will come upon you. I do not know how long it will take before it will come, but I believe that how long it will take to come upon you will depend on the timing of God, the ripeness of the location you would be sent to and the nature of your assignment.

There must be a definite divine encounter or experience of God or the Holy Spirit upon you before stepping into the prophetic ministry. If you are truly called into this awesome ministry office you will know. God will tell you and give you a sign.

In addition, people around you will know. You would not need to put a title of a prophet by your name to authenticate the office; the fruits of the ministry will prove it. A tree is known by its fruits.

The gift of prophecy

Prophecy is speaking the mind of God concerning people, places and things in a known language. It is a supernatural utterance from God. God uses different believers to prophesy in a unique way.

In the simple gift of prophecy, there will be edification, exhortation and comfort, and there is no speaking forth of future events. (1 Cor.14:3).

All believers can or should prophesy but not all are called into the prophetic ministry office. That God used you to prophesy once and it came to pass does not mean you are called into the prophetic Ministry. That you have dreams which occasionally happen does not mean you are a prophet or prophetess.

Most evangelists have the gift of prophecy but not the office. I have seen several evangelists claiming the prophetic office. This is dangerous for them.

But sometimes, God shows and speaks through believers who have no gift of prophecy about future events and it will come to pass.

It is the frequency of manifestations of the gift of the word of wisdom, gift of the word of knowledge, discerning of spirit plus the gift of prophecy that make one a prophet but the gift of prophecy and the three revelation gifts listed above.

You must be led to prophecy. In some believers, the unction arises gently, in others it comes with a force.

Types of Prophecy

Reporting Prophecy:

In a reporting prophecy, you will have a vision, dream or the Holy Spirit will speak to your heart and after you have received, you will declare it to the people. This is reporting what has been already given to you. For example, the prophecies of John the beloved in the Book of Revelation are reporting prophecies. He wrote what he had seen in the island of Patmos

Spontaneous Prophecy:

This is a prophecy that comes out of the believer's mouth at the spur of the moment: usually spontaneously on which the person has no prior knowledge of what to say or had not the slightest idea that the anointing will come at such a time. The spontaneous prophecy could last for seconds, minutes or hours. After the release of the prophecy, at most times the vessel forgets what he said and when you ask him, he hardly remembers all the words spoken but the key words of the prophecy.

Jahaziel prophesied spontaneously. "Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation; And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's. To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel. Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you." (2Chro. 20:14-17).

Spontaneous in Reporting prophecy:

Sometimes when you are reporting what you well told or what you had seen, suddenly other words begins to come out of your mouth that you never planned to say. It suddenly shoots out in one, two or few sentences. There and then, you will fully know it was God that has spoken and not you.

Prophecy in Praying process:

I have said that prophecy is a supernatural utterance. It is a spoken word that was not a product of human calculations. When you are leading public prayers or praying privately, there may be times you begin to utter or declare certain things into existence which were not what you planned to pray about. At this point, you will become charged up or fervent in your spirit and you will know that what you said is real and will come to pass.

Prophetic Preaching

There are occasions whereby a Minister has prepared a sermon to preach. But as he climbs the pulpit, the Holy Spirit moves in on the prepared teaching and breathe a dimension of inspiration into it. When such messages are preached, people usually acknowledge the presence of the Holy Spirit and attests to that at the end of the meeting.

The gift of tongues that is a prophecy:

There is the public side of speaking in tongues and the private side. (1Cor. 14:1-20). The devil has confused many believers so that they will not understand and embrace the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of praying in tongues.

In the public side of speaking in tongues, there is a need for an interpretation to the hearer (congregation) and God will always raise someone to immediately and spontaneously interpret in a known and understandable language. When a word is given in tongues and there is no interpretation, it is because someone has either missed out on God (did not tune to receive) or was scared to interpret. In the private side of praying in tongues, it is between you and God. This is speaking privately and no man may understand it.

When a message is spoken out in an unknown tongue an interpretation is done in a known tongue, which is equal to prophecy.

Private side: "For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh NOT UNTO MEN, but unto God, for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries."(1Cor. 14:2).

Public side: When a message is spoken out in an unknown tongue and the interpretation followed, it is equal to prophecy. (1Cor.14:27).

The Prophetic Office and the Prophetic Nature

There are some believers who will step into the prophetic office in the future as they are sensing some prophetic manifestation around them now. They are the emerging prophetic believers. I call them believers with a prophetic nature. This group of believers should remain under the training of God by His Holy Spirit. They should keep learning the Word and remain faithful in serving the Lord; faithful in serving others and faithful in little things before the time of their commissioning.

Others have sensed correctly that they are emerging prophets but without much learning and waiting to be nurtured in the call, have stepped into the office thereby causing so many damages to their lives and to others. Because of this, many have backslidden from the prophetic training and going into the evangelistic office. Do not operate a Ministry you are not called upon to go into or else you may get frustrated. If you have backslidden from this Ministry or have become discouraged because one or two of your prophecies failed to come to pass, I encourage you to continue in it with wisdom. It is a school. Let's keep learning. Despite the few years I have been into the prophetic Ministry, I never for one day assumed I know all about the prophetic Ministry or to claim as many may say "I have arrived." I am always praying and watchful to how God speaks and leads till now.

There is another category of believers who have a prophetic Ministry and are also acting in other Ministry. They might be prophesying but they are not prophets. God has given them two Ministry offices. But the prophetic grace will be secondary.

There are many evangelists who have the gift of prophecy. Once in a while they prophesy. This does not make them prophets. In this season of the church, God is doing a new thing. He is releasing strong prophetic anointing upon His Ministers who are not called into the prophetic Ministry so that they could effectively confront the evil power that is now highly structured, programmed and concentrated against His people. God is giving them insight and a foresight to see into the spirit world about the plans and attacks of the enemy.

Some have asked God to give to them the gift of prophecy and the prophetic office. Unfortunately, they have not been given. Only God decides who he calls into the prophetic office. Having the prophetic nature or the gift of prophecy does not make one a prophet.

Types of Prophetic Anointing

These are different types of prophetic anointing. By this, I mean that the different levels and operations of the prophetic anointing upon one prophet will be different from the other. We have so many prophets in the Bible all operating with different messages and methods.

"And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all, But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. 1Cor.12:6-7.

Prophetic Seers anointing: These are prophets that see more into the spirit realm by visions. The prophets in the Old Testament are called seers because they see into the spirit realm. Vision could come frequently to this category of prophets. It could be an open vision, spiritual vision (inner vision), trance or the vision of the night. God opens their eyes to see.

"... and in the visions of Iddo the SEER." (2Chro. 9:29).

In this kind of prophetic encounter, some feel a divine presence around them when God wants to show them a vision. They may feel the urge to want to sleep. The experience will be so strong on them that they may want to be alone in a quiet place, to rest. At such moments they would be suddenly taken into the spirit to see something. After the receiving the vision, the sleep-like feeling clears off from their eyes completely. This is a seer anointing. This happened in my life often. Sometimes you see in an open vision while at other times, this comes when once gets discouraged with a burden about a thing. When one lies down they may see into the spirit realm. God could show you event in an open vision literally. That is, your physical senses will not be suspended but you will be watching the event as they unfold as though one is watching movie from the television screen.

Prophetic Intercessors:

Some prophets are more into the intercessory aspect of the Ministry. They have a very strong passion for intercession. They are involved in several forms of strategic spiritual warfare. Moses and Daniel are good examples of prophets in the Bible who have a very strong intercessory anointing. Daniel interceded for the release of a whole nation of Israel from their captivity in Babylon. Moses interceded each time God is angry with His people to want to destroy them." (Num. 14:17-20).

Prophetic Minstrels:

Other prophets easily prophesy through songs or by the playing of instruments. Such ministration brings a lot of encouragement to people and creates an atmosphere of divine presence to bring healing, deliverance and blessings to the people. It brings believers to a place of encounter to hear from God in that company. (1 Sam.10:5-9).

Prophetic Equippers:

This is an anointing that comes on certain group of prophets to equip believers for the work of the Ministry. It is a training anointing; to teach believers. Such prophets raise many other prophets and activate believers into the prophetic gifting. Some believers are prophetic teachers. They are not logical in their teachings like the believers who are strictly teachers of the Word. They are inspired teachers of the Word. (Eph. 4: 12).

Prophetic Writers:

These categories of prophets are gifted writers. Their writings are inspiring. They do not write because they want to make money, fame or a legacy. They write as commanded by God. They received the writing Ministry as a commission from God. John the beloved who wrote the book of revelation was a prophetic writer. As they hold their pen, prophetic anointing could come on them and they will begin to write great prophetic words for the now or the future. "WRITE the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;" (Rev. 1:19).

Prophetic Miracles Workers:

These prophets are gifted in the area of signs and wonders. Great healings and miracles follow their ministrations. God used Moses in signs and wonders greatly. The spiritual gift of faith, gifts of healings and the gift of the working of miracles follow them. "...Jesus of Nazareth, which was a PROPHET MIGHTY IN DEED and word before God and all the people:" (Luke24:19).

Prophetic Actors:

Their lives are messages. Each time God wants to deliver a message, He makes them to ACT it. Hosea was commanded to marry a prostitute, to show how Israel has cleaved to the worship of strange gods. Ezekiel was told to lay on one side of his body for days... Agabus used a belt to tie himself and said that the owner of this belt will be bound by the Jews. It was the belt of Paul. Later, Paul was bound by the Jews. (Acts 21:11).

There certain forms of prophetic action God could instruct any believer or prophet to do. It should be by a clear instruction from God. Prophetic action is a rehearsal or putting into the physical what God is doing in the Spirit. When this anointing comes on these prophets, they begin to gather physical object to begin to relate to you what is presently going on in the spirit realm; what was done in the past or concerning the things that happen in the future. For example, prophet Elisha told put his hands upon the king's hands and asked him to open the window eastward to shootout an arrow of the Lord's deliverance. The king shot only three times and Elisha was not happy. Elisha wanted him to shoot as many times as he said he might smite the Syrian only three times.

Another example of prophetic action by Jeremiah: Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all those words that are written against Babylon. They came to pass. (Jer. 51:60-64).

Some prophets, by mere looking at the natural creation, could tell what was going on in the realm of the Spirit. It is done by the revelation of the Holy Spirit. They are suddenly attracted to an object, and then the message comes.

The prophetic unction is an anointing. God uses some prophets more on this line than others.

FIVE REALMS OF THE PROPHETIC

These five realms of the prophetic are the ways God uses to communicate with His people. Each of the method is unique. These methods include:

• The Spirit of Prophecy

• Gift of Prophecy

• Prophetic Presbytery

• Prophecy of the Scriptures

• The Office of Prophet

The Spirit of Prophecy

Often, during corporate worship service, the Holy Spirit will be present to speak to the people. During these times there is a special anointing for them to fight a strategic spiritual warfare over a region.

Prophecy of the Scriptures

The Word of God is in itself prophecy. Every word of prophecy that comes from the other four realms of prophecy must agree with the Scriptures.

"For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. (Rev.22:19-19).

"We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts. Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation." (2Peter1:19-20)

The Office of the Prophet

The Ministry of the prophet is not the same as the gift of prophecy. Prophetic office is among the five governmental Ministry offices He gave to the Church. (Eph. 4:11; 1 Cor. 12:28; Acts 13:1).

The gift of Prophecy is for three main functions: edification, exhortation, and comfort. However, the Office of a Prophet has authority invested in it to function in a higher realm of Ministry than the Holy Spirit's gift of prophecy.

These are some of the functions of the office of a prophet:

• Providing direction. (2 Kings 5:10).

• Giving words of correction and warning. (Ezek. 3:18)

• Pronouncing divine decrees of God's judgments or blessings.

• Impartation of spiritual gifts. (1 Tim. 4:14).

• Anointing Ministries (the three ministries of the Old Testament were anointed by prophets: the, Saul, the first king was anointed by the prophet Samuel 1 Sam. 10:1; the first High Priest, Aaron, was anointed by the prophet Moses. (Ex. 28:41). Prophets could anoint other prophets: Elijah anointed Elisha. (1 Kings 19:16).

• They are custodian of the secrets of God. (Amos 3:7).

Prediction Is Not Prophecy

Prediction is to declare a Word in advance, that is, to foretell on the basis of observation, experience or scientific reasons that an event will come to pass in a life of a person, places or thing while prophecy has is foretelling to man or the church Words of the Living God by the Holy Spirit.

The message must be God's ordained, direct word. Some of the messages we hear now as "thus says the Lord," are nothing but prediction. After many calculations by their reasons they declare them based on human reasons that are not from God. All we know about God and His acts were the things revealed to us by His Spirit. (1Cor. 2:12-14, 1Cor. 2:13.). There is a prediction by a prophetic insight that could come to pass accurately, but it is still a prediction. And don't call yourself prophets because you predict events. The prophetic office is a call by God. "And NO MAN TAKETH THIS HONOUR UNTO HIMSELF, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron." (Heb. 5:4).

There is a prophetic insight that is called prudence in Scriptures and it is not the same as the gift of prophecy. Prophetic prudence works but it is not the same as prophecy. "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished." (Prov. 22:3).

Some satanic prediction could come to pass because demons will honor the satanic word to perform it. They could only fulfil a satanic word of disaster.

We need to cancel any satanic pronouncements or prophecies spoken against us, against our families or against our nation. We need to understand that spirit beings need a word from people to operate on earth or people's lives. If it is a negative word, demons will bring it to pass and if it is a positive word from God, His angels will bring them to pass. Be careful of what you SAY because our words affect our lives.

"Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof." (Prov. 18:21).

Therefore, we need to understand that prediction is not the same as a prophecy. Declaration by prophetic insight is not prophecy. Having the wisdom to plan for the future is not the gift of prophecy. Prophecy is a declaration by the Spirit of God.

Pitfalls in Prophetic Ministry

There are pitfalls in every Ministry. Each time God is doing something great, the enemy also wants to plant weed. Pitfalls in prophetic Ministry are simply the rooms created by the devil to hinder us from fulfilling the prophetic Ministry. The devil specializes in planting tares in the field of wheat just like the parable of the man that sowed good seed and the enemy came at night to sow tares. The servant reported to the master that the tares be uprooted but the master refused. But he said that the tares (pitfalls) should grow with the wheat (prophetic Ministry). This means that as long as we are in the prophetic Ministry, there will always be tares (pitfalls). (Mt.13:23-30). We need to carefully discern tares because they look like the wheat. There are counterfeit prophetic revelations and ministries. If we are sensitive to the Holy Spirit, we would know them.

  * Presumption

This is acting on an issue you believed is from God whereas it is from your own thought or human spirit. It is when a man uses his natural knowledge to make spiritual decisions. "Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression." (Ps. 19:13).

Presumption is founded on pride since it has the claim of "I know". It blinds the servants of God. It is very important that we often analyze every prophetic decision or pronouncements we make.

Not only that it is a pitfall in prophetic Ministry, it is a sin. Samuel, one of the greatest prophets of God was once challenged by presumption when he came to anoint one of Jesse's sons. He presumed that one of the seven sons of Jesse was the one to be anointed. At last it was the eight son who was in the wilderness. (1Sam. 16:6-13). The Lord told him that God does not see the way a man sees but looks at the heart. If you are lazy to wait on God to receive a word from Him, you will fall into this trap. Presumption is not discernment; it is the act of being suspicious.

  * Pride

What a great sin that has slain the mighty, the spirit of pride. The Lord humbles the proud in heart and action. He brings them to the lowest position; to shame, but gives grace and exalt the humble people.

Pride takes away the grace of God that should sustain us in the Ministry. You become blind once found in you. Also your vision may become distorted. In the same vein, humility causes one to see the road clearly. Successes in Ministry have a way of making us proud. We should be careful. Except your heart is in daily fellowship with the father, the spirit of pride will enter you subtly.

"And lest I should be EXALTED ABOVE MEASURE through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure." (2Cor. 12:7).

It is very easy to walk in pride when great revelations and vision comes to a prophet at all times. You may be tempted to think that other believers have not yet "arrived." Spiritual gift is not a sign of spiritual maturity. God permitted Satan to humble Paul to look at his weakness to behold more of God's grace. The Scripture plainly explains that pride goes before destruction.

  * Anger

A believer who is prophet but manifests the spirit of anger shows a sign of immaturity. The wrath of a man does not show the righteousness of God. He needs to open up to the Holy Spirit to remove evil anger from him. Prophetic anointing could come upon an unsaved person for a season to prophesy. God can use anything or anyone to give a message. For example, the Donkey of Balaam spoke. The Donkey saw in the spirit realm and he spoke and prophesied. Num. 22:27-30. Saul, who was rejected as a king over Israel, when the Spirit of God left him, prophesied when he came into the company of prophets. The gift and callings of God are irrevocable. There are occasions whereby an evil spirit speaks through a vessel.

Therefore, it is needful that we base and build our life and Ministry on the Word of God and on the fruits of the Holy Spirit.

There is a righteous anger called "the zeal of the Lord". When it is on you, it will stir you to do all you can to fulfil God's purpose. Jesus chased out the traders using the temple of God for money making. He whipped them with rod and confessed: "The zeal of thy house has consumed me".

  * The spirit of Jezebel

Lust is an internal, immoral emotional feeling that destroys the prophet's revelation and Ministry. It distorts visions and removes discernment from a prophet thereby releasing passion for sex and brings the spirit under the subjection of the flesh. When the heart of a prophet- which is a sensitive medium through which God speaks- is defeated, he would not function well.

David who was highly anointed as King and a Prophet of God fell because he lusted over Bathsheba, Uriah's wife. So did Solomon his son who had about 700 wives and 300 concubines.

Prophets must be very careful of what they watch and hear because their spirit is very sensitive and magnetic. It easily snaps pictures, images and voices into their spirit and mind. Such negative picture or words could stay there for a long period of time. What goes out of a man is the resultant effect of what went in. One will be conformed to the image of what they are beholding. Therefore, they must check their area of influences.

This sin of adultery in David's life started when he resided at wrong locations. He was supposed to be at the battle field as it was a time when kings go to battle. Instead, he stayed at home and climbed the roof of his house. There are certain environments that are not conducive for a prophet to be at a particular point. Not only because it is an evil ground, but also for the fact that that point of residence may elude the Lord's cover over such a one. The angels and the grace to help you out of sin in such a place will be absent. Protection comes in a divine location. Stay where God wants you to be.

The spirit of Jezebel is out to destroy the prophetic Ministry.

"Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works." (Rev. 2:20-23).

We need to cry the cry of Job. "I made a covenant with my eyes not to behold a virgin (not to lust). Job 31:1. Prophets are the eyes of the church. They need to always behold the Lord in fellowship. Concentrate your mind and spirit on the things of God more than the things in their immediate environment.

  * Hasting to Act

He that believes does not make haste. A prophet must not be in a haste to act and to say a word, except he is sure the words are from the Lord and it is the right time to say it. It is a fool that says a thing before gathering and analyzing the thought in his heart.

Wisdom demands that we should wait and study situation carefully before speaking. Sometimes we are too impatient and want things to be done right away so that we jump to other assignments. We need God to give us a large heart to be able to accommodate a revelation or vision before the proper time of their dissemination to the right channels.

Impatience is one of the spirits of the devil. It is not the character of God. We must deal with it. We must be sensitive to the Holy Spirit to know spiritual boundaries. In other words, the very time allotted by God for us to go to the next assignment having done with the first. Most times, we sense correctly the will of God for our lives as to what to do next but we assume they should be done immediately and at a time we desire. Sometimes, because of our "over carefulness" to avoid making mistakes, we have stayed behind the programme of God for our lives.

  * Failing to Walk by the 5W's and H

The 5w's and H are what I call the LEAD. They are the who, where, what, where, who and how of the will and the purposes of God. In life and Ministry, we need to know this 5w's and h or else we shall miss the plans of God and be frustrated. Sometimes we may know the who and not the what. Sometimes we know the how and not the when. When any one or two of them are lacking in decision making, it will affect our proper fulfilment of purpose.

When there is lack of peace over an assignment we are faced with and suddenly we become uncomfortable with no burden to press forward, we need to wait on God to find out what area of 5w's and H is lacking? By the time all these are put in place, we can fulfil a purpose. Every fulfilled assignments of God on earth were done by the full placement of 5ws and h.

There was a time when God wanted to destroy the sinful world. Gen. 6:1-22, He used Noah (who?). It was at a time (when?) he was 600 years old and the flood came on the 17th of February (when?). He sent him to a sinful people (whom?). God gave him a message of repentance from sin (why?) that destruction is coming (what?), and God instructed him to build an ark, gather the animals (male and female) into the ark with his family. He built the ark according to the exact specification the Lord gave him (How?). It is usually at the place of (How?) that many miss out on God's purpose. We must spend time in waiting and in prayers to know the 5w's and h.

  * Not Motivated by Love

The primary sign that one is a mature believer is when he is walking in the love of God. The primary motivation of a genuine prophet is the love of God. Paul had great visions and revelations. He had great faith to move mountains, etc. With all that, he saw that what a prophet needs is walking in love.

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.... seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;... believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away..." (1Cor.14:1-8).

When you are walking in the love of the father, certain gift of the Holy Spirit you didn't ask god would start manifesting in your life. Let us be motivated by love to prophecy and not by anger. Let love motivate us and not money. Let love motivate us and not fame. God is love. Any prophet who is not walking in love, familiar spirits will take over him to prophecy satanic prophecies. To avoid falling into the pit that follows the prophetic ministry, learn to walk in love.

  * Lacking the Word of God

Any prophet who is not grounded in the Word of God will fall into many pits. Paul told the Colossians to be rich in the Word; to allow the Word of God to dwell in them in all wisdom. Base your Ministry on the Word. Put the Word before you; before the Holy Spirit. Jesus came before the Spirit. Before following the leadings of the Holy Spirit, build you life first on the Word. The Word of God is giving to us for a confirmation: to check and test if what we hear and see in the spirit is of God. Because there are so many strange and evil voices and visions. Whatever you receive must be in line with the word of God.

"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom..." (Col.3:16).

Prophets should study the lives of biblical prophets to know how God dealt with them and how they served God with love, faith, courage and integrity.

In Jesus' Ministry on earth, He put his preaching and teaching Ministry first before His prophetic, healing or deliverance Ministry. Preach or teach the Word.

History shows that most ministries that focus more on the gifts of the Holy Spirit more than the word didn't last. It is only His word that last.

  * Trying to Have a Prophecy for everyone and at all Time

The common mistakes so many emerging prophets make is trying to have a word for everyone. The gift of the Spirit operates as the Sprit wills. It is God who initiates prophecies and not us. There must always come a prompting from Him. These are issues of life that you personally need to hear God to talk to you about. But trying to give prophecies to everyone will make a prophet stumble. They need to remain yielded and submissive to the Holy Spirit not striving to hear from Him.

It is not all the time that God wants to speak to you. If you force yourself to receive prophetic words when God is silent, you will expose yourself to familiar spirits. "So I prophesied as I was commanded..." (Ezek. 37:7). Prophesy when the anointing comes; it is the anointing that breaks the yoke. The Holy Spirit is present in every true manifestation of the anointing. God will only bless what He is in.

Another example is when Balaam forced God to speak and to send him to Balak. God allowed him to go permissively. (Num. 22:1-20). When you are prophesying or giving people prophetic words, be sensitive in knowing when the Holy Spirit is restraining you. Some believers enjoy 'displaying their power" at the pulpit and speaking things even when the Holy Spirit is beckoning on them to stop. It is not weakness when the Spirit wants you to prophesy to only one person among many. I found out that sometimes when people are eager to receive a prophetic word through my Ministry, the Holy Spirit will lead me to only preach or teach. When I am not expecting great prophetic manifestation in a meeting that is when He moves powerfully. Speak only what the Holy Spirit is impressing in your heart. Tell the people only what He shows you in a dream or vision. Do not exaggerate. If you are not sent to explain the prophetic word you received, do not explain. Just tell the people what you saw or heard. "So I prophesied as I was commanded..." (Ezek. 37:1).

  * Failing to Know the Timing of Events

To every issue in life and Ministry there is a time. There is a time to be born and a time to die. There is a time to camp and a time to move. There is a time to talk and a time to be quiet. Also, there is a time to preach and a time to teach. The children of Issachar, one of the sons of Jacob, had understanding of times and they knew what Israel ought to do at a particular time. (1Chro. 12:32). First of all, they had understanding of the time and secondly they knew what Israel ought to do. When you understand the time, you are likely to know what to do within the season.

There are two types of timing: the cronos time, which is the human calendar time. The other type of timing is called kairos time, which is the supernatural time of God. God has a time-table for all His programmes on earth. (Ps 40:7).

We need to know when God is through with an issue in our lives or Ministries. He gives a sign when He is through with a thing in our lives. God does nothing without a sign.

"So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." (Ps 90:12). The knowledge of time helps us not to make mistakes. There is an angel that comes at a certain season to bless you. And there is a place and a time when God meets people.

Be careful when you don't see landmarks on your journey of Ministry. Landmarks are sign posts that point us to a particular direction on our journey so that we do not fall into a ditch.

God could give you assignment and a burden of ministry to various people and places. He could send you to stay among a people to keep praying and prophesying until the burden is lifted. Then He moves you to the next assignment. Be sensitive to know when God is through with you in a place and when you need to stop interceding for something. There are spiritual boundaries in all the issues of life as regard to timing.

  * When God is silent

There are times when God may choose to be quiet and there are so many reasons for that. It could be that He wants you to rest from receiving visions and revelations for a season. Remember we are still in the flesh. We have not received our celestial bodies yet. We need to balance the supernatural and the natural. Resting time is when you directly put God and His angel to fight. You need to know that your quietness as instructed by God is a busy time in the Spirit.

When Jesus sent his disciples to preach, He told them not to talk to anyone on the way, so that they will not be distracted. (Mark 10:4).

Sometimes God will not speak when we are not matured enough to handle some prophetic visions and revelations. Paul received so many visions and revelations. He heard so many mysteries that he was warned by God not to speak. (2Cor. 12:4). He was mature enough to handle that mystery before God spoke to him about it. When God gives a man a word that is not needed for that season, it will sound like heresies even though it is the word of God. There are words which are programmed to be heard by men in every dispensation. When you bring in some of the things that will happen in the millennium reign to this season, young believers may backslide. And sometimes when we do not spend quality time in prayers, He may not speak. Prophets should learn to know when God chooses to be silent.

  * Wrong Environment

Being in a wrong environment could affect the ability of the prophetic Ministry to receive clearly from God. There are powers that stay in an environment to control the activities that are done there. If there are strong satanic influences in that area, it could affect the "flow" in your receiving prophetic revelations. You would need to deal with those powers by warfare. Take authority over that region.

  * No Proper Spiritual Coverage

When young prophets begin to have great revelation, they may tend to feel they "have arrived" and do not need someone to lead them. They need to stay under a mature Minister of the Gospel who will encourage and guide them. They should be accountable to the spiritual servants of God who have gone ahead of them. Do not submit to Ministers because you want fame, money and connections. Let God lead you. Paul submitted to a church, to some prophets and teachers in Antioch. (Acts 13:1-6).

Influence in Ministry is a powerful force. There is transference of anointing. The foundation of your Ministry matters. How the structure, shape and beauty of your ministry will be in the future will depend on where you received your predominant influence. I had a godly influence some years ago that is affecting my life till now. Each time I preach, teach or write, I see the traces of the anointing of that Ministry.

Spiritual coverage is important in Ministry but some are using it as a marketing strategy to succeed in Ministry.

  * Depression and Fighting Spirit

Depression is when you are not seeing the way God is seeing; a distortion by the devil. And you feel like God is not with you or He has disappointed you. Hence, you begin to blame God and get angry at Him. You murmur and grumble. It is a state of despair, misery, gloominess and dejection.

It is the product of disappointment in life or Ministry caused by the devil and not God.

Depression is a satanic weapon. When your blessing is about to come, the enemy will release the spirit of depression. Depression is not from God. It leads to defeat. Learn to praise and worship God when depression is coming against you. God enjoys that worship that flows from your heart at a period when things seem not to be working according to your expectation.

Depression is a killer of the prophetic Ministry. When Elijah ran away from Jezebel, he was so depressed that he told God to take his life. His ministry ended there. And God anointed Elisha to take his place (1kings19:15-18). Many people commit or contemplate suicide each time the spirit of depression comes on them.

When the prophet misses out in receiving prophetic visions or revelations, interpretation or application of the revelation, he could easily be depressed. Keep moving on even when you make mistakes. The prophetic Ministry has a great anointing and responsibilities attached to it. Therefore, it needs great preparations.

  * Tribal or National Sentiment

When a prophet is led by feelings rather than by the Spirit, he is in a big trouble. Sometimes when evil men do evil things we prayed God to judge them even to death. But when it is our loved ones or someone close to us, we hardly pray for judgment but mercy. Effective prayers begins by knowing the mind of God concerning people, places and things before asking for the needs to be met by petition prayers or declaration.

When you prefer some believers more than others it could affect your receiving prophetic revelations. We must be guided by love. Be led by the Holy Spirit on knowing, praying and acting the will and purposes of God. Do not be led by sentiments.

  * Seeking Prophetic experiences rather than fellowship and intimacy with God

We always want to hear and see into the spirit world. And when the revelations come true, we shift from fellowshipping with God to experiences. We should not seek experiences but fellowship with God. The secret is this: the more intimate you are with God the more visions and revelations you will receive. It is prayers that births visions and revelation. The first call of God in our lives is to be at His feet in fellowship. He called His disciples to first be with Him, and then He may decide to send them or not. (Mark 3:11).

But there are times the Lord may prompt you to get positioned to receive a prophetic revelation, go ahead.

  * Carrying the Burdens of the People instead of the Burden of the Lord

All prophets are intercessors but not all intercessors are prophets. Prophets carry the burdens of the Lord. If you do not carry the burden of the Lord you will carry the burden of people. The burden of the Lord is the will and the purposes of God concerning people, places and things and what He wants you to do specifically.

Intercessors could just pray any burden they feel even when God's heart is not in it. Prophets don't have particular and fixed time for prayers but pray at anytime a burden from the Lord comes to their hearts.

They are more sensitive to oncoming dangers against people and nations than the average Christian. When they receive a burden from the Lord concerning a matter, they spend time praying about it, and sometimes gather people to join them in the intercession.

Our spirit is built to carry so many burdens but ensure the burdens of the people you are carrying are given to you by the Lord. When God is through with the matter, a new burden will be put into your heart.

  * Failing to Cooperate with other Ministries

Immature prophets want to be independent. They do not want to be accountable to people. There are many immature Ministries around us.

"Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to DWELL TOGETHER IN UNITY! It is like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down upon the beard even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. (Ps. 133:1-3).

There are ministries that God has designed that you work with. Sometimes He will want you to network with a Ministry with a similar anointing like yours or He will relocate you to a place with a totally different anointing like yours. He places you there so that you may be of blessing to them. You might see some things that are not in order or a displacement of a spiritual principle and He will send you there to correct some anomalies so that there might be order in the Lord's House.

  * Failing to Discern Wrong Visions and Revelations

Another pitfall in the prophetic Ministry is failure to discern wrong visions and revelations. Visions and revelation comes to us in three ways: from God, from Satan, by our human spirit and daily activities. Vision comes in a picture form and our human spirit could produce an image. Though much activities of the day could result to a dream, the enemy could manipulate it. Any vision or revelation that is for the advancement of God's Kingdom and is not in line with the word of God is from the Lord.

Voices have tune. Learn to know the tune of your own voice. The tune of the enemy's voice is hard, fearful, distorted, and strange and comes with a threat. The still-small voice of the Holy Spirit is gentle, cool and definite. The audible voice of the Holy Spirit is authoritative, very clear and direct. Details on how God speaks in chapter twenty five of this book.

  * Money and Fame

Money is a major destroyer of a prophetic calling. Some prophets have fallen because of the love of money. Balaam was led to prophesy to Balak because of money. Do not allow money to lead you into prophecy. We easily release prophetic words when someone gives us an "earthly blessing". Some give scaring prophecies to people and make financial demand to use the money to avert the danger. You must be led by the Spirit before prophesying. Beloved, what is motivating you to prophesy?

Some prophecies are founded on pride and the craving for fame and popularity. I discovered that true prophets of God usually hide their identity; they don't want to be known. There were 7,000 quiet prophets in Israel during the time of Elijah that refused to bow to Baal.

  * Over Familiarity with the Prophetic Office

This is another pitfall in the prophetic Ministry. The sin of profanity is taking the things of God for granted. When you know God is speaking but refuse to act and take Him for granted, it is a sin. Are we not used to saying "the Lord told me" when actually He didn't say anything to you.

And sometimes we don't seek God to clearly hear from Him. We assume that because God spoke through a particular way, He must still speak through that same way us.

  * Some Prophets do not have the Teaching Anointing

Some prophets are preachers of the Word while others are teachers of the Word. There are some who are both preachers and teachers of God's Word. Never step into the teaching Ministry if He has not called you into it. I have heard of a prophet who died many years back because he began to teach when he was not called to teach. Often times, we are tempted to act on what we are seeing. It is not all you see in the Spirit realm that is meant for you.

  * The Leading that was disobeyed

Your ability to receive revelations will become blunt when you neglect the Holy Spirit's leadings. He will bring to your knowledge what should be done. Your conscience will become seared when you consistently disobey His leading.

There was a time in the Ministry when I was led in a vision to go and help a church. After a short time my assignment ended but many people complained that I should stay longer. They do not know that there are times the Holy Spirit is through with a person in a place. Sometimes we become tempted as we think through our human mind and do things the way we feel because we want to set before us a physical legacy or a standard. As many as are led by the Holy Spirit (not legacy or standard) are the sons of God. Rom.8:14. Be led by God.

Growing in the Prophetic

Every Ministry is meant to grow from infancy stage into maturity. Jesus was first the Word before He became flesh. (John 1:14). The necessary equipments for our growth and development are available as we press, submit and remain yielded to God. Then, there will be an increase in understanding, knowledge, anointing, wisdom, visions and revelation in the office. There are different levels and measures of anointing within the prophetic office. One prophet can be highly anointed than the other. It is our responsibility to position ourselves to grow in the prophetic Ministry.

  * The Ministering of the Word

For you to grow in the prophetic anointing, you should understand that a prophet is first of all a believer that should teach or preach the Word. Jesus went to all the cities and villages preaching the gospel.

Let the ministering of the Word be your major priority before seeking the manifestation of spiritual gifts. All Ministries are meant to reconcile people back to God. Let the Word of God dwell in your heart richly in all wisdom so that whatever you hear or see in the Spirit can be confirmed by the Word of God.

"For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." (Rev. 19:10).

  * Being With Company of Prophets

Prophets move together. Samuel told Saul that when he gets to a particular place, he will see a company of prophets. Saul prophesied when he was in the company of the prophets. Before Elijah was taken to heaven, there were companies of prophets talking with Elisha telling him if he was aware that his master will be taken away on the day God had appointed.

The same in the New Testament: prophet Agabus and other prophets walked together. There were some prophets and teachers in Antioch church. (Acts 13:1-6). Silas and Judas were prophets.

Many prophecies come in parts. God does not reveal to prophet everything that is going on in the nations or in the Church. He gives one part to one and the other part to another. He does this so that they can come together to gather the information collectively for effective analysis and intercessions. They have like-minds and do not easily fight among themselves. Any prophet that does not walk with other prophets is not a true prophet.

I discovered that prophets could easily hear people's needs, the need of the church and national issues. However, when it comes to their personal issue there is usually a challenge. As such a time they will need confirmation from others as regards its interpretation or application. God allows this so that they could depend and complement each other.

Prophets achieve great things when they are together. Therefore, a believer who is called into the prophetic office or a believer who wants a prophetic impartation needs to move with the prophetic people for impartation and understanding of the processes involved in the prophetic Ministry.

  * Music and Worship

By nature, prophets are very sensitive to Spirit-led music. Music easily opens their spirit to the frequency of the Holy Spirit to flow in the gift of prophecy.

There was a time some people needed a prophetic word from Elisha. He was not in the Spirit, so he asked that music should be played for him. When that was done, the prophetic anointing came on him and he prophesied.

The church needs Spirit-led choirs who have a fellowship with the father to release songs of worship that will allow the Holy Spirit to flow freely among us.

  * The Mind of Christ or our hearts desire?

The Lord expects us to grow to maturity where we can make decisions by simply listening to our hearts. The Scripture said the desire of the righteous shall be granted to them. This is quite true but how renewed are our minds. Our hearts should not be conformed to the standard of this world, but be renewed by the word of God so that we can know the perfect will of God.

You can never know the perfect will of God until you have a renewed mind. The renewing of the mind is inevitable in the Christian journey. Renewing the mind is meditating on the Word of God: putting it to dominate our mind and into our hearts. Empty your mind from the vain philosophy of this world and put on the mind Christ.

When you allow the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit to develop in you, you will have the mind of Christ. The fruits of the Spirit are: love, joy, patience, long suffering, and humility...Gal. 5:22. When you become mature in this, you will get to a place where you wouldn't need to first see visions or dreams to make decision. You would be able to make decision on a daily basis, moment by moment before acting. The Holy Spirit once told me: "if your desire does not correspond with mine, you will not receive anything from Him".

Therefore, it is not all of our thoughts or desires that is the mind of Christ but a decision that flows from our hearts which were sanctified by the Word and are in line with the will of God.

  * What about Guilt- like Feelings?

Guilt is a sign in our hearts that something is wrong. It could be the result of a present sin in our hearts. Secondly, it could be a sign to prevent us from entering into sin.

So many people suffer from guilt problem not because there was a sin in their lives but a natural way to be a perfect person. So any form of little failure or negative thinking could bring about a guilt feeling and may lead into depression.

The presence of guilt is an indicator for a change.

  * Breaking through Spiritual Boundaries

To grow in the prophetic, you need to understand spiritual boundaries. Spiritual boundary is a cross line between where you are presently and the next place of your God-given assignment. God will bring you into a relationship with people: people of similar anointing, those who have gone ahead of you, and believers who will look up to you.

There may be a length of time to do an assignment and when it is over, sometimes many people do not know. At this point of crossing, many things may happen. Experience is good but it is not the best teacher. The best teacher is the Holy Spirit. It is good to learn and move as He is leading you than to learn in the hard way by experience. Some pains we passed through were product of our disobedience to the leadings of the Holy Spirit. When God is about to move you to your next level or location, He will ALWAYS give you a sign. The first sign He will give you will start from your heart then he will speak through a vision or dream and then He will use someone to speak to you. If after all the signs and you are not willing to move, there may be some kind of uncomfortable situations befalling you. (Job 33:14-26).

Judging the Prophetic

The Scriptures encourage us to judge prophecies. Paul said that when a prophet speaks, others should judge. "Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge." (1Cor.14:29). Prophetic Ministry is the only Ministry among the other Ministry callings that Paul said it should be judged. It should be judged because it speaks on behalf of God- speaking words of accuracy.

The Scriptures instructs us to test every spirit because not all spirit or prophecies are from the Lord. Any prophecy that is from the enemy can cause havoc. "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world."(1John 4:1).

These are several ways we can judge prophecies;

  * An Inner Witness of the Holy Spirit

God speaks to all believers. When you are under a false prophet, the Holy Spirit will speak to your heart by a gentle voice or by a sign of uneasiness in your heart that there is something not real about the prophet. But if you resist the leading and continue to stay under such a person after a while, you will not hear that leading again. The spirit of the prophet will capture your mind. In a case where a believer is given a prophecy; if he is speaking from his mind, you can still discern that he speaks not from the mind of God. There is always a check of the Holy Spirit in our hearts. "But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him." 1John2:27

  * Find out if the words contradict the Scriptures

Any vision, dream, voice or prophecy that is not in line with the Word of God is not from God. "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." (2 Tim 3:16-17).

If a prophecy goes against Scripture, discard it.

But there are times when a prophecy can be against our own understanding of the Bible. That is why it is important that we build ourselves in the Word.

  * What is the prophet's attitude towards the brethren?

Find out if the prophet is walking in love. Anyone who hates his brother or sister is in darkness.

A true prophet cares for the welfare of the people and wants to see them walk in the Word and in the will of God. He cries when he sees that what is written in the Word is not practiced in the church.

  * The Character of the Prophet

There so many false prophets. You will know them by their fruits. A true prophet walks in the Word. He manifests the character of Christ. The passion of Christ is his passion. Find out if the prophet enjoys worldly pleasure and engages in immoralities. The fruits of the Spirit MUST manifest in his life. "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. (Gal5:22).

  * Did The Prophecy Come True?

The Scriptures answered this directly: "When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follows not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him."(Deut.18:22).

If God speaks, the Word will come to pass. But there are prophecies that could be stopped by God from coming to pass, especially when it is a prophecy of judgment. God changed His mind not to destroy Nineveh when the people repented.

Some prophecies take time before their fulfilment. It took hundreds of years before the prophecies of Jesus' coming to the earth came to pass.

There was a time God used me to give a prophecy that He is giving us a president without human hand. In other words, it will come by His doing and not by election. When I spoke that word in a meeting in 2007, I thought it will come to pass in a few weeks, but it took three years.

  * Does The Prophecy promote Jesus or man?

If a prophecy exalts a man rather than God, then that prophecy may not be from the Holy Spirit. "...For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." Rev. 19:10

  * Independent Witnesses

A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses. "...In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established." (2Cor.13:1).

  * Does the Word Set Us Free?

A true prophetic word sets people free from bondage. An evil prophecy puts burdens and yoke on people. Some of them make you to pay for the service you receive from them. True words from God will encourage and comfort you. "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8:32).

  * The Prophet Testifies That Jesus Is God

Any spirit that denies that God came in the flesh is not the spirit of God. "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. (1Jn 4:1-3).

Signs and Symbols

I tried to give some basic interpretations to the meaning of some numbers, colors and objects. But you need to bear in mind that a picture could have more than one thousand meaning. God usually speaks to you by the things you are very familiar with.

For example, if you know that a bus carries people, He may use a bus in your dream to let you know that there are people He placed under you to oversee their spiritual well-being; to drive them to their destiny. That you always see a car in your dream doesn't mean God wants to give you a physical car; car in a dream usually talks of Ministry.

A snake in a dream could mean a sign of danger, but the Scripture says we should be as wise as snakes. (Matt. 10:6). So, the snake in a dream could mean 'wisdom.'

I heard a story of a young believer who was so zealous about the things of God and wanted an encounter with Jesus. He was praying and fasting that he wants to see Jesus physically. One night, while he was in a church praying, a Lion appeared to him and he ran out of the church to his pastor. He told his pastor that there is an evil spirit in the church. So the pastor asked him what he was doing in the church at that hour and he said it was because he wants to see Jesus. His pastor told him the Jesus he wanted to see came but he ran, and that the Lion he saw was Jesus. Jesus is the Lion of the tribe of Judah. (Rev. 5:5).

In the Scriptures, a river or water could mean a blessing, revival or people. It is not always that the enemy is trying to initiate you into occultism whenever you see yourself flying across the waters. Waters means mass of people. (Rev. 17:15). The dream might mean that God is lifting you above some people or human limitations.

Flying in a dream is not always a bad dream. So many prophets in the Bible experience flying in their dreams and visions to the space, air, under the water, forest, etc Ezekiel 11:24, 8:3,2Cor.12:4. Elijah and Enoch disappeared, for God took them alive to heaven. Philip disappeared and appeared at Azotus. Should we call these experiences demonic? Do you know that Satan is not a creator, he only copies? Everything he does is a trial copy from God. For you to be prophetic and hear God accurately, you must learn to be comfortable with prophetic experiences.

God speaks always to us through dreams. But because of the kind of environment we were brought up, we feel many things we see in a dream are evil.

Do you know that God brought unclean animals for Peter to kill and eat but he refused? He told God that they are unclean animals and God told him not to call what He created as unclean? (Acts 10). Some people will go for weeks of deliverance prayers if they have such dreams. But it was God and not Satan, who brought the animals to Peter to eat.

The Holy Spirit usually gives you an interpretation of the picture He shows you in a dream or vision. Learn to write down the first understanding that suddenly comes to your heart after the visions. Sometimes, you need to write it down because God may not give you the full understanding of the pictures, numbers or object until the set time of their manifestations.

1 = Number one stands for; God, Deut. 6:4. It also means a source or beginning of something.

2 = Number two is a number of witnesses. (In the mouth of two or more witnesses every word is established, 2Cor.13:1). It is also a number of friendship; having something in common.

3 = Number three means Godhead; trinity; divine completeness; perfect testimony. It means working together, Ps 133:1.

4 = Number four means the earth; creation; world; four gospels; four winds; four seasons; four corners of the earth. Jer. 49:36, Zech.6:5.

5 = Number five is a number of; grace; atonement; life; the cross; five-fold ministries. Eph.4:11.

6 = Number six is a number of man; beast; Satan; idol; anti-Christ, Rev.14.

7 = Number seven means; perfection; completeness; the seven churches in the book of Revelation; finished; day of rest; (used 600 times in Bible). 2 Kings 5:10.

8 = Number eight is a number of resurrection; new beginnings; put on new man. 2 Kings 22:1, John20:26.

9 = Number nine means; harvest; ministry; fullness; fruitfulness; number gifts of Holy Spirit; number of fruits of the Holy Spirit; number of birthing (baby born in 9 months).

10 = Number ten means: law; order; government; restoration; antichrist kingdom; trial; testing; responsibility; tithe; probation. Num. 14:22, Rev.17:16.

11 = Number eleven is a number of judgment; shaking, incompleteness; disorganization; disintegration; disorder; need for apostolic fullness (11 apostles left after Judas hanged himself). When the children of Israel sinned against the Lord ten times, the eleventh time was judgment. God refused to change His mind as usual. Num. 14:22-24.

12 = Numbers twelve means; divine government; apostolic fullness. Mark3:14.

14 = Number fourteen means; Passover.

15 = Number fifteen means; Spiritual order.

16 = Number sixteen means; Free spirit; without boundaries; without limitation; without law, therefore without sin Rom 4:15; salvation.

18 = number eighteen means; To put on judgement, destruction, captivity, overcome put on spirit of Christ (Jud. 10:7-8; Luke 13:4).

19 = Number nineteen means; barren; repentant; ashamed; selflessness, without self righteousness (II Sam.2:30, Rom.6:21).

20 = Twenty means; Holy, tried and approved or unholy and found wanting.

24 = This number means; priestly courses, governmental perfection.

30 = Number thirty means; consecration, maturity for ministry.

40 = Number forty means; probation, testing, ending in victory or defeat.

50 = Number fifty is a number of Pentecost, liberty, freedom, jubilee.

70 = Number seventy means; prior to increase or representative of a multitude.

75 = This is a number of separation, cleansing, purification.

100 = Hundred is a number fullness; full measure; full recompense; full reward. (Gen 26:12; Mark 10:30).

120 = Number one twenty means; end of all flesh, beginning of life in the Spirit.

300 = Three hundred is a number of faithful remnant.

666 = antichrist; Satan; beast.

1000 = maturity; full stature; reign of a deity.

Amber: Glory of God. (Ezekiel 8:21).

Orange: First stone in third row of breastplate of Aaron, it means companionship and intimacy

Black: sin; death; grief; famine; evil. (Lam. 4:8; Rev. 6:5).

Blue: Spirit of God; good; Word of God; Heaven; Heavenly authority from above; Holy Spirit; Prophet; Revelation; (Num.15:38;Jn.14:26). 105 | P a g e

Brown: Death; Repented; Born again (dead grass); without spirit.

Crimson: Blood atonement, sacrifice or death. (Lev. 14:52; Is.1:18)

Purple: Kingship; royalty. Also, it is a combination of both blue and red - the Spirit and the Blood = the glory of God. (Jdg.8:26;Jn.19:21)

Red: War, bloodshed, death. (2 Kings 3:22; Rev. 6:4)

Scarlet: Blood atonement; sacrifice (as crimson) (Lev. 14:52; Is.1:18)

Green: Life; renewal; growth; teaching; prosperity; eternal life.

Grey: Mind and not the Spirit; wisdom, i.e., grey hair. (Prov.16:31).

White: Purity, light, righteousness, holiness of God, Christ, the angels or saints. (Rev.6:2).

Pink: Passionate heart for God (Ezek 36:26). Mixture of white (purity) and red (the Blood).

Part Three:

Understanding Prophetic Activation

Most of the thousands of wars and battles that nations, kingdoms and different tribes fought were caused by a need to capture a LOCATION so they could increase the sphere of their dominion. Before God started the process of His plans on earth with people, He had to first provide a LOCATION for Adam and Eve. The location could be physical or spiritual. As a preacher said, your location will determine your allocation. The realm or position we are has a lot to do with how we can enter into our inheritance and possess resources.

There is prophetic location and we need to stand on it. It is the spiritual realm (location) that controls the physical realm (location). Therefore, you need to learn how to position yourself in the realm of the Spirit so that you can effectively utilize spiritual and physical resources by prophetic realm (location).

Many people are longing to be released into the prophetic. The purpose of this teaching is to help you to know about the prophetic, to release the prophetic in you, and to help you position yourself in the prophetic so that you can fulfil your God-given purpose.

There is an increasing release of the prophetic anointing in the body of Christ worldwide. This is the fullness of the prophetic. God said that in the last days He will pour out His Spirit upon all people. (Acts 2:17).

For the past 15 years since God called me into the prophetic Ministry, I have seen how He activated and released so many believers into the prophetic and are now very effective in their offices as a result of the prophetic activation. Some evangelists, pastors, teachers, intercessors etc, have become more effective in their area of calling as they open up to the prophetic.

Your life and Ministry will take a major turn as you open yourself into the manifestations of the spirit of prophecy.

Reasons for Prophetic Activation

The five-fold Ministry: Apostolic, prophetic, evangelistic, pastoral and teaching ministries are meant to fulfil a purpose, to advance the Kingdom of God. They are meant to bring every believer to maturity. The prophetic office is part of that. It helps to activate believers into the prophetic dimension so that they can advance in an aspect of God's Kingdom. (Eph. 4:11-13).

The Scriptures told to earnestly desire the gift of prophecy; it helps in the edification of the church. (1Cor. 14:3, Eph 5:18-19).

Prophetic activation will help you to have more victories in your personal life as you begin to open up to its manifestation. It is for edification, exhortation and comfort to believers.

Prophetic activation helps to open your eyes to see your position in the spirit and the spiritual weapons you already have at your disposal. This will make you to stand in a spiritual platform affecting things in the spirit realm, which will ultimately manifest in the physical realm.

The received prophetic word could form the basis for intercession and this will help to prosper the church, the individual and the nations to work the perfect will of God. (1 Cor. 14:3).

This part of the book, prophetic activation, is to basically activate you into hearing and seeing into the Spirit realm.

Hearing, Seeing and Positioning

THE VOICE OF THE LORD

"God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets," (Heb. 1:1).

God still speaks. And He speaks in diverse ways. He is the God that owns everything. He knows everything. He knows every person's thoughts and intensions. He knows why things are the way they are.

He wants to speak in a way that will be understandable to believers and to make us aware that He is speaking. The particular way He speaks to you today may not be the same way He will speak tomorrow. He spoke to Peter by the voice of the Holy Spirit when Ananias sinned. (Acts 5:1-11). And in another place He spoke to the same Peter by a trance vision. Acts 9. He does this to keep us aware that He is a God of multi-dimensional acts; the God that cannot be caged to one way of speaking. His utmost desire is that His people understand when He speaks.

He does not like us to be spiritually deaf and dull in hearing His voice. He will also create all possible ways to speak to you when you are willing to hear Him. Draw nearer to Him and He will draw nearer to you.

It is the delight of a natural father to hear his child talk to him while he is also hearing him. Will you not talk back to your child when he talks to you? Will you not want to hear the voice of your child? Prayer is not a monologue but a dialogue. It is a communication between God and man. In communication, there is talking, sharing and understanding.

Voice Of God The Key To Your Success

Hearing and obeying God brings great success in evangelism, deliverance, etc. it is one of the primary keys to open the door of money, material things, and safety.

"And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth:" (Deut 28:1).

There are two key subjects in this verse. The first is the "voice of the Lord" and number two is "the commandment of God." The commandment of God is the words in the Scriptures we must obey. It is a decree that nothing can change. To love one another is a command. Prayer is a command. Learn to be a doer of the Word and not just a hearer only.

"The voice of the Lord" is the instruction He tells you, which must be confirmed in His Word. His Word is given for confirmations of what He shall be speaking to us by His voice. The voice of the Lord is an instruction from the Lord for a specific situation concerning people, places and things.

Therefore, it is crucial that we know how God speaks and gives us visions and revelations for the edification and building up of His Kingdom.

THE WORD AND THE PROPHETIC

The Hebrew word for a "prophet" is call "Nabi," which means a spokesman - someone who speaks on the behalf of God. The very words he speaks are not his own, but from a superior authority. Such words he speaks carry power and authority from the person who sent him. Prophets are God's spoke men. The weapon of a prophet is the word. If we must be prophetic or achieve a maximum result in the prophetic, then we must know the power of the Word.

The language that the spirit realm understands is the Word. When you speak a negative word, it empowers evils spirit to work with it, and the result will be negative happenings. And when you speak the Word of God, it empowers angels to fulfil the purpose of the spoken Word. (Psalms 103:20).

From Genesis till date, when God wants to achieve a purpose, He speaks. Speaking comes before doing. (Gen.1:3). Learn to speak to circumstances and events. Speak to the creation of God. Speak to the "Mountain". Everything that God created has an ear to hear, they respond to the words of Him who created them. When there was a storm on the sea and their boat was about to capsize, Jesus spoke to the wind and storm to be calm and they obeyed His WORD.

1. Revealed Word:

When the Israelites were in exile in Babylon for 70 years and the years were completed for their release, God revealed to Daniel as he was reading the Book of Jeremiah. He understood that they were meant to stay for only 70 years. God speaks by His Word.

When you are studying the Word of God and it is ministering to a particular issue in your life that is God speaking to you. Sometimes, when you are reading your Bible and you get stuck in a particular verse and couldn't move further beyond the verse, it is a sign that the Holy Spirit wants to tell you something. There are so many promises in the Scripture that addresses every need in your life and Ministry. Find them. Speak them. Believe them. Another example of how God speaks to us by His revealed word: John 3:16 says that for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believe in him will not perish... We easily quote this verse, even in our Sunday school but it has never meant anything to some people. Suddenly, one day you are attracted to it, what meant nothing to you suddenly become alive and real. That is God speaking to you by revelation knowledge or a knowledge that is revealed.

2. Divine Visitations:

God does allow Jesus to sometimes visit some believers physically to give a message. There are several believers who have had experience of such divine encounter. Not every Christian will experience this. It is by His sovereign decision. It is advisable that we should not always be seeking spiritual beings visitation as the devil could appear to us like an angel of light. But if God stirred your heart to ask, go ahead and ask. Jesus told doubting Thomas that blessed are they who believe him though they did not see Him. The twelve apostles, Paul the apostles, other apostles in the early church and many believers in this contemporary world have seen Jesus. I know few men who are presently alive today that had an encounter with Jesus Christ.

In divine visitations, God could also send an angel to give believers messages. Peter was visited physically by an angel. He was tapped by the angel who opened the prison door for him to escape, Acts 12:10. Angels come to give messages of direction from God, to deliver us from a problem or to bring words of edification and building up of the Kingdom of God.

We have guardian angels. They are always around guarding us. They are always by a believer whether he or she knows it or not. But we should not seek to see angels or worship them. The ministering spirits (our servants) sent to minister to us. (Heb. 1:14). You are greater than an angel because you are created in God's image and likeness.

3. Providential Circumstances:

When men are not sensitive enough doubting when He is gently speaking to their spiritual ears, to their heart, or by visions and dream, then He allows circumstance to lead them. It is not the perfect will of God to allow circumstances lead us. He does not do this all the time. He uses this for the immature Christian. And I also notice that there is a level you will attain where you will have a lot of God-given spiritual burdens and responsibilities and because of many issues in your heart, you are likely to neglect some important things of God and take them for granted. When this happens God will begin to use circumstances to inform you. Sometimes there will be a vibration or a sensation on certain parts of your body to indicate to you about a related matter in your life or in the lives of others. Once I was in a church service and my arm began to vibrate. Sensing in my spirit that someone had pains in his arm, I stood up and declared, "someone here has a pain on his arm and God is healing you now". And God did heal that person that morning in church. I usually have several sensations or vibrations on my body to give me a message when I lay hands or hold people to pray for them.

God uses circumstances to lead us when we are not sensitive to the open doors He opens for us. When your spirit cannot pick what the Holy Spirit is trying to tell you, He will allow circumstances to speak to you. God speaks to us by an open door or through circumstances. When God shuts the door against you to prevent you from going somewhere, it is because He either do not want you to be there in the first place or the time to be there was not right in His calendar. And if it is the right time, you will need not struggle. He will open the door to you. The door will open for you with ease. (Job 33:14-17).

There is another side of God leading us by circumstances. When God has clearly spoken to you through the voice of His spirit in your heart either through a dream or vision, and you are still delaying to act even though you realize He has spoken, it could be that God is done with you regarding that issue and if you choose to dwell further, that is disobedience. At that moment, you are not in the perfect will of God for your life, but in the permissive will of God. And under His permissive will, there is no protection. The enemy can attack you then. In that situation you'll discover things will begin to work against you. If God begins to warn you in dreams or visions, you better act in obedience immediately, or else you will pay dearly for your disobedience.

5. Prophecies:

God speaks to us by prophecies when a believer who is inspired by the Holy Spirit speaks. Prophecy is speaking the Word of God in a known language by divine utterance. He could speak to you as if in a sermon, teaching, singing or prophesying. We should not seek after prophecy but the Word. God may speak to you directly through prophecy, but most times the words are just to confirm what is already in your heart. (1Cor. 14:3).

5. Visions:

The word visions have two meanings. First, a vision could be defined as your goals or plans in life. In this context of our teachings on the prophetic Ministry, a vision can be defined as the ability to see into the realm of the Spirit with our physical or spiritual eyes. (Acts 2:17).

Vision is real. When the Lord began with me as I gave my life to Jesus, most of the times He spoke to me were by His Spirit in my heart, that is, by the voice of the Holy Spirit or by the inward witness in my heart. Once in a while, I receive a word of knowledge. In the fullness of time, the Holy Spirit quickened my spirit and positioned it to receive visions and revelations consistently. You can see countless visions. It is the Holy Spirit who gives vision. More about visions and its importance are in part one of this book.

6. Dream

Dream is simply when something is revealed to you while you were sleeping. When you awake, you later remembered what you saw. A dream comes through three sources;

(i) From God

(ii) From the devil and

(iii) From your human spirit (your thought or mind).

Dreams that are from Satan have fearful elements attached to it. It can come to pass if it is not prayerfully handled. Don't be careless about negative dream and don't allow it to control your life and Ministry. It can make you confused, frustrated and may cause you to deviate from the Ministry. Let the word of God guide you daily. Whose reports will you belief?

I suffered so much in Ministry because I believed so much that God speaks through dreams. So I expected that all my dreams must be from God. Be careful not to base your receiving spiritual direction by a dream but by the teachings of the Holy Spirit and His Word. Though God speaks through a dream, be careful not to be controlled by it.

I almost missed out in Ministry regarding location. Then I was in the Bible school and I wanted to know where my Ministry location was: the place of my next spiritual assignment. Because of this eagerness and anxiety, I had a dream that I was in one of the African countries for a mission work. I almost left school for the untimely work. Some dreams have their time of fulfilment; they are for an appointed time. Train your spirit to be patient and quiet for a specific period of time. Impatience kills and has thrown many people out of the will of God to wrong relationships, wrong locations and entering untimely anointing. Don't seek to hear from God when you are too anxious and desperate. God had to make Adam sleep, to be at a state of rest to give him a wife. He struggled to get a wife that will be suitable for him among the animals until God made him to sleep. (Gen.2:20-23). Don't seek God in an earthquake sound situation. Learn to rest your heart in His promises by faith. The fact that you see yourself in a strange land does not mean you are to move immediately. Sometimes the devil could give a vision to you.

A dream could come by activities of the day. (Ecc. 5:3). What you thought about in your mind during the day might reflect in your mind while you go to bed sleeping, and you may think it is a dream from God. If you always think of people and Satan coming to attack always, you are likely to see people and the enemy pursuing to kill you in a dream. Even when you become too afraid of a person who is not a witch, Satan may use the person's face to pursue you in a dream. There are witches who use human faces, especially the face of someone you know to harass you in a dream. They do this to create panic and confusion; strife and fighting among people. Such is common in Africa.

Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it comes the issues of life. Feed your mind with the words of God. (Col. 3:16, Rom. 13:1-2). It is what comes in that will manifest. You will be conformed to the image of the things you are constantly beholding.

Sometimes when you are fasting without much prayer, you are likely to see yourself eating in a dream and it is not a sign you are being initiated into the evil world. But just hunger reflecting, causing you to eat because your body needs food at that moment. And when you eat a very heavy meal at late hours before you go to bed, you are likely to have bad dreams. This is because your body is not relaxed and is trying to digest the food which is a physical process of your body.

When you don't know whether a dream is from God or not, it is probably not from God.

When God gives you are dream, the message will be so clear, direct, and there will be an impact of the glory of God upon your spirit and you know that it is from the Lord.

Most times, God will give you the interpretations of your dream. In any God-given dream there is always a message. The message could be;

• An encouragement to continue in your walk with God in a location.

• It could be a warning.

• God could show you a generational issue that should be dealt with prayerfully and not just by knowledge.

• It could be a message for the church or the nation.

• It could be a message for your family or friends

• The message could be a direction for your life or Ministry

• It could be for your self-examination to walk in holiness.

7. By the Holy Spirit:

God will speak to you through the Holy Spirit through these means;

(i) Audible voice of the Holy Spirit,

(ii) Inner voice or still small voice

(iii) Inner witness or conscience.

(i) Audible Voice of the Holy Spirit

As the name implies, the voice you will hear will be audible and clearly. You hear it clearly with your physical or spiritual ears. It has an authoritative sound and tune. I discovered that each time there is a journey ahead in weeks or months to come; I will hear God speak to me by this medium. In most cases it is in one, two or few sentences in a well constructed grammar and sometimes I will have to consult the dictionary to find out the meaning of the vocabulary that was spoken. It will sound as though the voice was coming from someone by your side. Paul had that experience when he said:

"Now the SPIRIT SPEAKETH EXPRESSLY, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;" 1Tim 4:1.

Peter had that experience. "...THE SPIRIT SAID unto him, Behold, three men seek thee." (Act 10:19).

(ii) The Inner voice or the still small voice

God speaks to you by the inner voice or the still-small voice in your heart and not through your spiritual ears like the audible voice of the spirit. The tune of the voice is still, small and gentle. It comes in an atmosphere of quietness of your spirit. It comes as whisper in a phrase, one sentence, or few sentences. You will surely know it is from God. In times of trouble, when you're confused and restless like Elijah in the cave, don't expect God to speak to you in a thundering form of earth quaking sound, windy sound or by fire. Rather, it could be by a still-small gentle voice. (1Kings 19:9-130. You will sense an atmosphere of peace within you in that period of time and in the midst of that, the voice will gently speak, it is the still-small gentle voice of the Holy Spirit.

(iii) The conscience or the inner witness:

A man comprises of the body, soul and the spirit. The human spirit is the same as the heart. The components of the soul are your will, emotions, intellect and mind. And the components of the spirit are communion, intuition and conscience. Communion is a place of fellowship and communication between God and man. The intuition is the part of your heart that gives you awareness that we should stop doing certain things or to do something. For example, when you are going to a place you planned and suddenly change your mind and wouldn't go again, that leading is by intuition.

Now, the conscience is the voice of your spirit. The Holy Spirit will speak to our spirit by the voice of your conscience. When you become born again, it is your human spirit that is born again and not your body or mind. When the Holy Spirit touches your spirit, it will become alive. The place of communion, intuition and conscience becomes alive and active. The Holy Spirit will lead you by your spirit. (Rom.8:14). He will speak and drop messages to it. The conscience has a check; this check is always in a state of rest, stillness, normally at all times so that when there is a thought or a voice to act positively or negatively, your heart will dictate that. You need to know when your spirit or conscience is at its normalcy position so that when there is a shift, you can easily detect.

This is the primary way that God speaks to all his children whether you got born again today or you have been in Ministry for years. He leads us daily on every issue even on the issues we think are not necessary.

The Holy Spirit leads us like the earthly shepherd with a sense of caring and wanting us not to fall into dangers. He knows the future and obstacles ahead of us that we wouldn't be able to handle. It is crucial that we hear and obey Him or else we shall struggle unnecessarily in life and Ministry.

Every Instruction Of The Holy Spirit You Obey Will Produce The Supernatural In Your Life Or Ministry.

Don't neglect the voice of your conscience; many have died because of negligence to that and many have missed out on their healing and anointing. Whatever God does is supernatural.

(i) Restraining or pulling us backward

(ii) Leading us forward

(i) Restraining or pulling us backward: First of all, you need to know the normalcy of your spirit, the state of the inner quietness of your heart so that when there is an ill-feeling on it you would be able to know why. He said that if they had listened to his commandments, their peace would have been like a river. (Is. 48:18). God leads us in an atmosphere of STILLNESS. In every spiritual journey each time you begin to lose your peace over a situation, it is a sign to stop. That is the Holy Spirit restraining you.

Secondly, when the thought of an action you want to engage in crosses your heart and a guilt-like feeling is released in your heart, it is a sign to stop.

Thirdly, when you are not comfortable in your heart about a thing, and you try to do it over a particular time but have an ill-feeling on your spirit, it is a stop sign. It is the Holy Spirit restraining you. Again, at times when you have to make a decision between two issues: doing one and forgetting another and suddenly you become restless, it is a stop sign. Please do not be in haste to make a decision when you are at a state of confusion or restlessness. You might suffer unnecessarily if you take a wrong decision. I suffered so much when I acted at such crucial point. It is at such point of restlessness that demons come to divert your attention from the original plan of God for your life. Sometimes you will act and nothing harmful might seem to happen. It is because of the mercies of God covering you in your disobedience.

The "now" "now" syndrome most times is not from God. He that believes does not make haste. Success at all cost is not God's concept. Just "flow" with God and you will get to a point where you are successful and may not even know you are. Your concern will be TO DO THE THINGS THAT WILL PLEASE HIM. God is so mindful of you than you think. He will help you because there is no distance in the Spirit. He will act for your sake. When it is time for your blessing He will find you wherever you are.

(ii) Leading Us Forward: The Holy Spirit will often lead us to move ahead through our hearts. There is the resting point, the gentleness and stillness of your heart. When your heart is at such calmness He will lead you to go ahead. When He does that, you will be so convinced that God has spoken to you. The voice or thought will be simple and gentle but the instruction you receive will be clear and definite.

God leads us forward by these means:

(a) Inspired thought: A thought of a thing could cross your mind that could mean nothing to you. But at a point it is inspired, it will make a lot of sense to your heart. The very thing you were ignoring will become so real and then you feel strongly that something should be done about it. This is an inspired thought by the Holy Spirit to your heart and it is an indication to act.

(b) Prompting of the Holy Spirit: This is the Holy Spirit acting upon your spirit. It brings situations to the knowledge of your heart and would push your heart to act on what it is bringing to its awareness. For example, you may see someone in need, the Holy Spirit might prompt your heart to arise and help. That is the prompting of the Holy Spirit.

(c) Impression: Impression is when the Holy Spirit brings something into your heart. A thought of something that has never crossed your heart or an issue you have not thought about for a long time when it comes will be a strong growing awareness in your heart. It will keep growing and coming to you until you act before you will have your complete rest. It is like a light burden on your spirit, but carries a caring presence of God. A word of knowledge or the word of wisdom could come to your heart by impression. It is the same as "I perceived," or "I sensed." We should be careful in taking major decisions by this type of leading if we are unsure. Do not be afraid to act. Start learning how He speaks by impression on minor issues before you attempt major issues. "As many as are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God." (Rom. 8:14).

God loves leading His sons and daughters by the Holy Spirit. A child is different from a son. A son in a Hebrew tradition must have attained the age of 30. And when Jesus was 30 years old, He went to be baptized by John and the Holy Spirit came on him and LED Him into the wilderness. (Luke 3:21-23, Luke 4:1). He was led by the voice of the Holy Spirit and not by a vision or an angel because He was mature enough to discern voices.

Rationalization is not a leading

Deception sets in when reasons replaces the place of conviction says a preacher. Reason is in the soulish realm, the place of intelligence. Conviction is by reasons) are the sons of God. (Rom. 8:14). When you use human logic and worldly philosophy to make your analysis, judgment and conclusions, then you are under the control of the spirit of deception.

If God opens your eyes by His mercies, you may discover that many of the things you are doing are not led by His Spirit but by your human senses.

Some people are so practical in approach and application of their principles that they have kept the Holy Spirit outside for quite a long time. They are saying "seeing is believing" like the doubting Thomas. Practicality is based on doubt. As many as are led by the Spirit – and not by practical thinking- are the sons of God. (Rom. 8.14). What surprises me is that, working by senses also brings results. It is our responsibility to check our results whether they are from Godly sources or demonic sources.

When rationalization replaces conviction, deception is inevitable.

POSITIONING TO HEAR AND SEE INTO THE SPIRIT REALM

Positioning to receive a word from God is crucial on how to be led by the Holy Spirit. The word positioning is to place yourself in a direction that certain things could come your way. For instance, when you want to receive a message by your telephone, there must be a handset. You must be connected to the communication organization by registration; the charging of the handset requires a sim card. Having taking into consideration all these, you still need to dial a number or click ok to receive a message.

Below are the ways you can position yourself to be led by the Holy Spirit.:

  * Abstaining from polluted magazines and movies

What goes into your mind will eventually get into your subconscious being and would pollute you, producing false pictures and revelations. We are not to be equally yoked with an unbeliever. Delight your mind and heart in the things of God. "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night." (PS. 1:1-2).

  * Forsake not the assembly of the brethren

Immediately after salvation, one is expected to have believing friends. You need mature believers around you who could direct you so that you may not fall. The scripture encourages us not to forsake the assembly of the brethren. When I was growing up in the faith, I struggled to be committed in my walk with God for a long time because I had unbelieving friends around me. When I started relating with believers; connecting myself to godly influence so that I can hear godly things, remaining pure in heart, my ability to hear God increased.

  * Study and meditate on the word of God consistently

Meditation on the Word of God will help to renew your mind and clean your imagination, which is the centre of receiving of vision and dream. The Word will sanctify your mind to improve your ability to hear God more clearly and accurately. You need to get a quiet place and set a time in His presence. In times of crisis, when you will need a guide, the Holy Spirit will bring one of the Scriptures you digested into your mind to give you direction. "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success." (Joshua 1:8).

  * Fasting

Fasting is meant to bring your body under the control of your spirit so that your spirit will become active to hear from the Holy Spirit easily. During fasting, let the Word guide you. Spend time in prayers during your fasting period. Fasting sometimes shows the Lord that we are serious. Go into fasting when there is a burden on your spirit and not because someone fasted for 40 days you also want to do the same. Do not fast so that it will be known you have broken a record. Fasting should be Spirit-led. Fasting helps us to easily tune our hearts to the frequency of the Holy Spirit. The more you position your heart to hear from God the more sensitive you will be to the leading of the Holy Spirit.

  * Praying in the Spirit

Praying in the Spirit is another way to help you in positioning yourself to hear from the Holy Spirit. When you pray in the Spirit or in tongues, it is your spirit that prays. (1 Cor. 14:14). Prayer is done in two dimensions; first with your mind (your understanding) and second by your spirit (in strange tongue). (1Cor. 14:15).

When you pray in the Holy Spirit, your spirit will become edified or charged up. Your spirit comes alive or quickened when you pray in the Spirit. This creates an atmosphere to easily hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. For more than 15 years, the more I pray in the Spirit the more visions and revelation I received and the less I pray in the Spirit the less the visions and revelations I received.

Spend quality time: at least one hour praying in tongues daily and don't mix it up with your known language. As you continue daily in this, you will see and hear things in the Spirit that will marvel you. Paul said that he prayed in tongue more than all of the Corinthians. (1Cor. 14:18). That is why he received a lot of visions and revelations. (2Cor 12:1- 7).

Take note! You can pray in tongue only when you have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. When you start this form of prayers, your body may not be comfortable with it from the start. You will be tempted to stop but do not stop. The very time you are tempted to quit your prayers will have been making a great impact in the Spirit realm. At such time, refuse to quit. Pray until you are fully convinced that your prayers are heard. The peace and joy of the Spirit in your heart after prayers is evidence that your prayers are heard. At other times you may feel that what you are saying is meaningless and empty. But keep praying all the same.

I found out two dimensions of praying in tongues: There is a tongue that sound like a language, so real, strange and carries a charging force in it. After praying out for few seconds, we are always tempted to stop. This is the real praying in the Spirit. And there is one that is common among believers, the normal tongue they pray with their eyes open. They could be talking to people and engaged in this type of praying. We should not be religious about praying in tongues. Pray a fervent tongue: concentrate and release yourself into it. Get a quiet place and set up time that there would be anything or anyone to distract you. The prayers could be for 30 minutes or 3 hours.

"But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost," (Jude 19-20).

  * Waiting to Hear

There is a waiting to hear period. Wait to hear from God after a period of quality fellowship prayers. Do not be in a haste to hear and leave His presence. Be patient with yourself and with God. Many believers jump out of His presence when they receive just a word. They forget they could stay longer to receive so much from God.

Waiting to hear is like having a quiet time; a period of time when you are quiet before God in meditation and praise and worship to Him. It is a period of contemplation and fellowship with the Father. So many believers like warfare prayers even when the Holy Spirit is not leading them into it. You might not hear God easily if all you do is warfare and thinking of demonic attacks. Meditate on His word, glory, and purpose. You can also hear Him during your prayers as He brings solutions to the questions in your heart.

If after your prayers He did not speak, keep doing time after time, do not give up. Do not be disappointed when you waited and heard nothing for a leading that you desired. Sometimes God will test your patience and endurance. But surely, He will speak.

Waiting is not only done in meditation in His presence, but we must learn to wait for His promises to come to pass in our lives. It is in the waiting period that God will give the leading on how to handle the situation.

  * Quieting your spirit

Train your heart to be quiet. He that believes does not make haste. You will enter into so many troubles if you are always in haste. There is strength in the stillness of our heart. Do not be in a haste to speak or act until you are so convinced that it is God leading you. If you are too noisy you would miss several information that the Holy Spirit wants to speak to you.

  * Deal with unbelief, doubt and fear

What hinders our prayers from being answered, or stops us from seeing the result of our prophetic declaration is unbelief, doubt and fear. (Mark 11:23-24). Everything is possible to them that belief. When you speak a word to receive your miracle, do not doubt it and do not be afraid it won't happen. It could take time but it will SURELY COME TO PASS.

You need to understand the purpose of every delay in your life. That our prophetic words are delayed from coming to pass doesn't mean it will not happen. When a woman is one day pregnant, you may not know it, whether you believe it or not, there is a seed in her. It is not the issue of sight or "seeing is believing" but a matter of faith. You can speak right now to receive a miracle. Only believe.

Between the time you speak the word to receive a miracle and the time of its physical manifestation, I will encourage you to keep your faith intact. Resist the enemy when he tries to speak words of doubt, unbelief and fear to you. There is always a waiting period to receive from God.

The prophetic word creates faith and movement. Each time you give someone the RIGHT words something will begin to happen instantly in the realm of the spirit that the physical eyes cannot see.

  * Discern Ungodly Vision

The Scriptures encouraged us to test every spirit. The enemy is running to and fro to deceive and mislead people. Therefore, it is needful we know satanic visions and fake visions that comes from our own human spirit.

To be able to ascertain whether a vision is from the Lord, from your own human Spirit or from the devil is by the kind of impact that was left on your Spirit after the revelation.

If a vision is from the Holy Spirit the impact on your heart will be strong, with corresponding inner peace and a full knowing that it is from God. Satanic vision or dream brings fear. God's vision creates faith and hope. Satanic vision most times can be disturbing. The message will not be clear. After the revelation, you will keep wondering whether it is from God or from the devil. If you are wondering if it is from the Lord or the devil, most times it is not from the Lord. Satanic vision usually contradicts the Word of God. Any vision that will make you to act contrary to the Word of God is not from God. A vision to instruct you to fornicate, fight, and divorce your spouse; a vision to cheat, are not from the Lord.

Don't be afraid if your heart is catching so many visions or dreams. Some of the visions may not be from the realm of the Spirit, which is why it is important we develop ourselves in the Word of God so we can easily understand his voice to relate better with the Holy Spirit.

The more you watch carnal pictures or movies, the more the picture will continue to reflect in your dream or vision.

Wisdom demands that we seek God. Live a life of worship and not seeking vision. You can position your spirit to receive a vision, but ensure you put the worship of the father first. Fellowshipping and intimacy with the father is the basic foundation we must develop in positioning to receive visions and revelations.

Vision can be given to us at anytime the more we continue to walk with the Holy Spirit and getting lost in his presence.

Affecting Nations

If we don't take a step, we will never make a move. People who take a step make a move. We are the Joshua and Caleb generation that will take over. Yes, there seems to be giants, there seems to be mountains and they look so scaring, but we can take over.

A single prophetic move can change people, cities or nations. If you hear clearly from God, nothing can stop you. God does not only want you to know how He speaks, but He wants you to begin to ACT on what you RECEIVE so you can affect nations. You are born for this time. You can affect at least a nation or a group of people.

HEARING + OBEDIENCE = PROPHETIC MANIFESTATIONS

A nation is not necessarily a country. It could be a group which have something in common. A particular tribe can be a nation. God can start a nation through one person. Every single person you see every day is a potential to start a nation.

You are not born purposeless. You came into this world with an assignment. There are several ways you can take the gospel to a place of need: you can do that, even better than many who are 'attempting' to do it.

The Call Upon All Believers

There is a great call upon all believers to fulfil a task whether you realize it or not. This call is not just for pastors, prophets, apostles, teachers and evangelists. All Christians are called by God to fulfil a purpose. When Jesus died and resurrected, He gave ALL of us the commission of reconciling people back to God.

This is not the season to push responsibilities to others or to certain Ministers. YOU are born to do SOMETHING.

The greatest deception you can face is to allow your job, carrier or school stop you or delay you from doing what God wants you to do. Whatever you are doing, wherever you are, and whosoever you may be, THERE IS A DEMAND RIGHT NOW ON YOU TO AFFECT A GROUP OF PEOPLE. You are GIVEN something by God that can affect people for God positively. You may not know what you can do until you arise and start doing it. NO MORE PROCASTINATION. Delay is very dangerous in this season.

A blind person has something to do to affect a generation. A lame person is not without an assignment in this season. Even sick people should not use their sickness as an excuse. You can affect a generation right where you are with what you have.

You don't need millions of money to affect a generation; you don't need a building to change a situation. You don't need high connection with great men to do something. Lies have kept us bond. We were under lies and false mindset. Grow up to become a maximum forest.

Jesus told a story of a man that was to travel. Before his journey, he gave one of his servants a talent, the other two and to the other five talents. The one that had two and the person that had five talents used them to get an additional two and five respectively. But the one that was given one didn't use the one. He buried it in the ground. When the master returned from the journey, those who made profit were promoted. The one that was given two talents was given two cities (nations) to control. In the same way the man that had five talents also made profit of five talents with the five talents given to him. But the man that did not use his own was punished: even the one talent which was given to him was collected. The master called him a wicked servant.

From the above story, we can see that EVERYONE has a talent, at least ONE. Secondly, we are expected by God not to keep our talents dormant but to USE it and to make profit. Thirdly you can decide to either use your gift or not. And lastly, there is a reward for either using or refusing to use the talent that was given to you.

Have you discovered your gifts and talents?

One of the major reasons why God is keeping many people alive today despite their sins is because He is waiting for them to know and start doing what they are born to do. Many people die before their time because they are not walking in their God-given purpose. Find out God's purpose for your life in this season if you must stay longer in this earth. God USUALLY releases host of angels to protect and to guide the person who knows and is walking in his calling. There is protection if we are walking in the centre of the will of God. Operate in your specific calling.

Time is running out. No more delay. No more procrastination. Even if you still have to spend 120 years on earth, it is too short to be wasted for eternity. What we do with our lives here on earth will determine what will become of us when we get to eternity. Do you know that when you die, you can't go with all your certificates, secular achievement, houses, money, lands, and cars e.t.c?

What will follow you after death is your WORK as prescribed by Him to you.

Start sowing eternal treasures. Beloved, time is running out. "Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession." (Ps. 2:8).

The Unfinished Task

Beloved, you are not free until the people who need your help are free. The world population is over 7 billion people.

Approximately 2 billion people have never heard the gospel message even ONCE. Some of them belong to Islam, Hindu, Buddha, Atheist, etc. Many people die and go to hell daily. Instead of the Church advancing aggressively for mission to the lost, she is deeply involved in church politics, raising funds for church building and not funds to reach out to the lost souls. Many churches have millions and billions of money in their bank accounts while souls are perishing daily.

The church, which is supposed to be a solution centre, is becoming a den of thieves and robbers.

God is not happy when people are dying and are going to hell. He is looking up to you to help the dying souls. Can you help to reach out to this unbelieving people?

How about the unbelieving believers: people who received Jesus Christ but are taking His grace for granted. We must reach out to them with the gospel.

Many people have been in the church for years but they don't know their left from their right. They are being tossed around by every wind of doctrine. They don't know the Word.

Jesus is coming for a church without a spot or wrinkle. And when you look at the present situation in the church, the lives of believers, you'll agree with me that we need revival. Because much of what is thought in the Bible is not practiced in the church.

I have seen so many believers who would have been operating powerfully in the prophetic anointing, apostolic teaching, evangelistic and pastoral anointing, but they lack knowledge. They don't know what they are carrying; a great Ministry that can affect nations. There is a need to disciple believers and activate them to manifest the prophetic anointing, apostolic, evangelistic e.t.c.

It is a sad thing to see individuals who can change and influence a generation still pursuing the shadows of life. For how long shall we continue to pursue things that don't have eternal values?

Europe, a continent that was once a world centre for gospel is now backward in spiritual matters. Millions in that region don't want to retain the knowledge of God in their minds. We must reach out to them.

Babylon's Influence

Babylon is not sitting quiet. She is busy trying to capture the whole world.

Babylon is a worldly system and the devil is the head.

Spiritual battles are going on daily in the spirit realm, but many Christians don't know or they are careless. We are only concerned about our jobs, how to get money, our local church, our marriage, businesses, and so on.

Babylon's tricks to influence people are not new. It uses money, sex, fame and power to capture people.

The love of money is the root of all evil. The devil knows that people love money, so he is using money as a bait to capture people into his kingdom. People can compromise; they can do anything just to get money. Are you compromising the faith in any way because of lack of money?

Economic power is one of the last weapons the devil and anti-Christ will use to make Christians to derail from the truth. Overcome the lust for money now. Be contented about life now. Beware of covetousness and greed; these are grave diggers.

Many people are joining the occult because of protection. The safest place for protection is in Christ Jesus who made the heavens and the earth. The devil doesn't give anything for free. If he gives you a bag of rice, then be sure that he will collect 1000 bags of rice from you soon. The devil's nature is to steal, kill and to destroy. Don't tamper with his properties and still think you'll escape. Serve God with the whole of your heart, mind and strength.

Another gate that Babylon is using is the media. A demon of lust will be attached to a film, or an advertisement to pollute so many viewers and to increase the rate of sexual perversion. Be very selective of the kind of movies you watch on television.

In our schools and hospitals, demons are working hard to affect people. We must attack him right there. Those believers who are in schools as teachers or students must TAKE OVER those areas because they have the grace to do it. Don't give the devil a breathing space. Control the activities of the night and of the day in the region you are. Start thinking and acting to influence everyone within were you are.

Another strategic place that the devil is using is the political arena. When a wicket person is on the throne, the people will suffer. Most politicians make blood sacrifices before getting to the throne. We must capture the gates of politics. God is giving believers all over the world strategies to dethrone evil rulers. We must take the Kingdom at the local, state and at the national level.

The world is now a global village. You can affect thousands of people from where you are, even from NOW. Be prepared to flow with the trend of events in this season. All the technological inventions are for our good. We must MAXIMIZE this opportunity.

The nations of the world have gates: every village, town, city or country has a GATE.

You can posses a gate. If you know the gates of a given situation, you can arrest the situation.

These are some of the gates we need to know so we could affect the nations, cities and people;

1. Technological gates

2. Intercessory gates

3. Writing (publication) gates

4. Shaking/ judgment

Technological gates include the internet and other form of electronic communications. As led by God, win souls for Christ through the internet; through the yahoo chat, Face Book, e.t.c. If you have the resources to go to the television or radio to affect people for Christ please go forth. If you can sponsor someone who has the anointing to do so, please do it. Let's capture the air waves; television, radio and satellite. Through the electronic gate you can affect a soul in China while you are in a remote village in Africa or in South America. You can minister healing to many sick people in other continents hundreds of miles away.

The Lord said to me that he has set an open door before the church. We can AFFECT nations; we can win a whole village for Christ. Hallelujah!

By the gate of intercession, you can pray for the deliverance of people who are under satanic bondage, you can pray against impending war, crisis that will kill innocent lives and you can pray to avert coming natural disaster. We can frustrate the devil's plans and strategies in the nations through intercession.

Through the writing Ministry, many souls will be won for Christ. Many believers can understand the call of God upon their lives and act on it. The writing Ministry is a gate to villages, cities and nations. Write spiritual tracts and distribute. Write down timely prophetic messages and distribute.

Organize crusades in villages or in places where they need the gospel. If you can't do that alone, then get an evangelist that can do that work, or work together with the evangelist to win villages, town and cities. Affect your generation.

Without speaking, your life on its own should also affect people. Do not dress like the worldly people. Do you know that there is a worldly way of dressing? We are letters written to people. If your way of life is not changing someone in the location you dwell, it is a sign that something is wrong with your life. "For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and saw corruption;" (Acts 13:24).

One of the strategies which God is using to take over some regions by the knowledge of the word is through shaking.

We are in the season of shaking. Even the blind knows that we are in a critical season. A major global shaking will come upon great institutions and systems; the political, economic, social systems. The shakings could be caused by a natural disaster of a great magnitude or by human manipulations, certain scientific and technological structures. Wars and conflicts will also bring shakings.

By the shaking, the hearts of men and women will fail them and will cause them to run to the saints for solution. In that season, we must take the opportunity to lead. We must arise with sound doctrine to guide and establish a guiding principle in those regions that will be affected.

"...When the judgment is on the earth, the inhabitants learn righteousness." (Isaiah26:19).

  * You can be a great writer. From the start of Moses, he didn't know that he will be a great writer and not just a prophet. While he was taking care of the flock of his father-in-law before he received the call he didn't know he was carrying BOOKS in him; the book of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

  * You can be a great preacher of God's word.

  * You can be a great intercessor for the Kingdom.

  * You can be a great music Minister.

  * You can be an outstanding but quiet missionary serving in a remote village.

  * You might be used by God greatly in the prophetic

  * You can be a caring pastor.

  * You can be a great evangelist ministering to hundreds and thousands of souls.

  * You can be a great church planter.

  * You can be a great helper; helping pastors and Ministers to progress.

  * You can be greatly use in the miraculous.

  * You can be a great economist for God's Kingdom.

  * You can be a great Christian scientist.

  * You can be an exemplary Christian politician.

There is something great implanted in you by God for you to succeed. This is the time.

You may not know what you can do until you start. START!

The Lord wants to start opening your eyes to see what lies ahead. He wants to use you to deliver someone out there.

Find out a people group in your country or outside your country that you can affect.

This is the time for us to enlarge the capacity of our hearts. It is not church as usual. We need to follow Jesus in whatever he is doing in the nations as the Holy Spirit will lead us.

There is no other time to fulfil the purpose of God than now. Sometimes we think that we are waiting on God to move us whereas He is the one waiting for us to move.

Arise and shine for your light has come!

Fulfil purpose!

Spring up and grow into a maximum forest!

Affect villages, towns, cities and nations.

This is the season for you to begin to act and see the manifestations of the things you receive prophetically.

"Ask of me and I shall give you the NATIONS as your inheritance and the ends of the earth as your possession" (Ps. 2:8).

HEARING + OBEDIENCE = PROPHETIC MANIFESTATIONS

Part Four:

Prophetic Messages to Individuals, Church and Nations

The Lord always desires that His people should know what He intends to do in advance. He reveals future events concerning individuals, families, churches, cities and nations. Having the knowledge of the present happenings and of the future will save you from unnecessary lost; it could save you from death or bring you to the fullness of your blessings.

You cannot accurately know the best thing you can do in this season until you know the mind of the Lord for the season.

In the years ahead, from 2016 to 2022;

There will be great shakings in many part of the earth within the next 3 years. But the Lord will preserve the righteous.

• The knowledge of the glory of the Lord will cover the earth as the water covers the sea. Be prepared to walk with the Lord more than the way you did in your previous experience with Him.

• From this year, the Lord will keep connecting you to your destiny helpers. They might not be rich people. Learn to discern the kind of people He will send your way.

• Demonic activities will be on the increase. Satan will mobilize more demonic forces to try to hinder the works of God which you are doing. But they will fail. Their attacks will help to spread the Word of God.

• There would be more subtle and sophisticated television programs that will help to increase the spread of sexual immorality. Be careful of what you watch on the television.

• The enemy will introduce more deceptions; he will use the Word of God to cover his lies. Learn the Word of God now and be committed to it.

• The world economy will continue to shake until another season of apex shaking of the world economy. The last global economic crunch was only a foretaste of the major one that will happen. Be prepared. Invest in eternal treasures. Learn from the Lord on where you should invest in this season.

• There will be more natural disasters in many regions, especially the places that have evil foundations and strong demonic altars. Be where the Lord would want you to be.

• In the midst of all the present shakings, the Lord will keep raising more leaders who will advance the course of the gospel in this season.

• This is not the time for procrastination. Whatever the Lord has put in your heart to do for Him, arise and do it.

• Stay alone with the Lord. Cut off from every kind of distractions that hide in the name of the "gospel."

• This is the time for you to seek HIS FACE.

• This is the time to only HEAR HIM.

• This is the time to be lost in prayers.

• This is the time for you to connect yourself to believers who are God's seekers and not money seekers.

• This is the time for you to put aside religious activities and embrace the things of the Spirit.

• This is the time to go back to your first love; the first fresh fire of Ministry you first received.

• This is the time for you to walk in your original anointing.

• This is the time to know and study the Word of God, not just reading it, so that you will NOT be taken unawares by every kind of demonic doctrine.

• This is the time for you to cut off from all unprofitable ventures of life.

• This is the time for you to be in the centre of the will of God.

• This is the time for you to yield to more fasting just for the purpose of fellowship and not because you want to get a blessing from the Lord.

• This is the time to live a holy life. Don't assume that once you are saved forever you are saved. If you continue in sin after you become born again you can go to hell.

• This is the time to put your ABSOLUTE TRUST on the Lord and not on people, because people will fail you in this season. Jesus is the only sure foundation.

• This is the time for you to be more committed to your local assembly; do not forsake the assembly of the brethren.

• This is the time for you to clearly define your call or vision.

• This is the time for you to be focused in the area of your call.

• This is the time for you to affect the lives of men and women for the Lord.

• This is not the time to keep seeking after prophecies, but seeking the Lord. Pursue after God.

• This is a season of great spiritual persecution; many things will try to counter the things of God we are trying to live by. We are in the hour of great temptation.

• We should recognize the environment that will take us to our new season.

• There is a strange river in the church; it longs to pull crowd, enjoys being in the crowd than in the cloud of His presence.

• "If My Spirit cannot lead you, how can you lead others to do My will?" Be led by the spirit in order to lead the people of God.

• Mighty revival will spread in the Roman Catholic churches.

• The Holy Spirit says that there would be more solemn submit years ahead. Believers will gather in unity in various villages, cities and nations just to worship and not for the purpose of receiving a miracles.

• Lord will resist those who will tamper with His programs and want the restoration of His backslidden servants. Those who believe in self-importance; self-exaltations, titles, crowd, popularity, doing his work without the leading of the Holy Spirit, and in the gathering of silver and gold.

• True success is weighed by what made you successful. How you become successful is more important to the Lord than the success itself. He who makes haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

• More intercessors will arise.

• Believers with more accurate prophetic anointing will emerge. I see greater prophetic anointing coming upon teenagers. We must disciple them now before that season comes.

• More pastors will arise to gather people to teach them the ways of the Lord.

• Many healing evangelists will continue to arise in the land with great healing power reserved for this season. The season of the greatest sign and wonders is about to be open to the church. The Lord will open thousands of wells of signs and wonders.

• Apostles will use the opportunity that God is giving us in this shakings to establish a relevant and a lasting Ministries that will be able to hold the large number of the people coming from the world into the church.

• In the midst of the shakings, the Lord will release many great financial helpers to His church. I see a major transfer of wealth coming to so many believers within the same period. The harvest will be like reaping in the place we did not sow.

• Every Ministry that is not walking in line with the principles of the Word God will be exposed. They will lose members. Their members will go to other churches where they will learn the Word of the Lord better.

• U.S.A;

The Lord will soon give political power to a man who will not follow after the order of the root of iniquity established in the previous tenure.

A great shaking is coming to America soon. Lord, raise more intercessors for America! The Lord said that the hour of her judgment has come. The shaking will give birth to a great revival. The Lord has arisen to help that nation. If not for the sake of the remnant, that nation would have already sank in total destruction.

The major shaking that is coming is an economic collapse.

• UK and Europe;

Mighty revival by shaking is coming to her. The veil that covered their eyes from receiving the gospel they once believed will be removed. Yet, many will still follow the beast and his works. I see the Lord sending more missionaries from Africa to Europe. I see the Muslims migrants who are coming to Europe getting saved and taking the gospel back to their people.

• Middle-East;

The wall of Islam is fallen down. The Spirit of God is moving mightily in so many of their regions. There would be more divine visitation in the Middle- East; angels and even Jesus will keep appearing to them to convert them to Christ. So many Muslims will serve the Lord. The heart of God is crying for the salvation of Muslims. The lord has also opened the door to reach to millions of them by the social networks like facebook, twitter, etc.

• Asia;

The Lord is raising martyrs in Asia. Believers will offer themselves for the sake of the gospel. But it will be the will of God. Some believers are called to die that way. There is a great revival already in Asia and more to come.

• Africa;

The Lord told me in the year 2007, in three different visions, that this is the time for Africa. This is the season of total restoration of the spiritual, material, and human resources on which the people of the continent of Africa have lost in the past.

The people of the continent of Africa will be propelled to arise with great might to carry the gospel to the unreached nations of the world through the coming light that will shine in Africa. Many apostles, prophets, evangelists will arise from the Arab nation of North Africa to take the gospel to the middle-east.

This continent that is known with inter-tribal wars and other insecurity problems will soon become one of the safest places to dwell in on the face of the earth.

What happened to the great impartation of the Spirit on which the Ethiopian eunuch received from Philip? Was it lost? The kind of great anointing that was on Philip will be made manifest through Africans.

God promised to establish an altar unto himself and to raise and release deliverers from Africa.

God has a plan for every nation and continent and they have a specific time of visitation in His kairos time.

Simon of Cyrene who helped Jesus to carry His cross on the way to crucifixion was from a town in Cyrene located in Africa. God has the people of this continent in mind since from the foundation of the earth. They will contribute greatly in carrying the message of the cross in these seasons.

When Herod was about to kill the baby Jesus the angel of God instructed Joseph to carry Jesus and Mary to Egypt in Africa. God will use the people of this continent to preserve godly heritage or seed in this season.

Two Africans were among the prophets and teachers who were in the church at Antioch, who released Paul and Barnabas into the apostolic work.

In order for Moses to be able to carry the great work that God gave him, God had to connect him to marry Zipporah a woman from Midian, a town in Africa.

God used Jethro who was from Africa, the father-in-law of Moses to teach Moses the act of delegating responsibility.

When Jeremiah was put into the well, it was a black man who helped him out.

Joseph married a lady from Egypt who gave birth to Ephraim and Manasseh. Manasseh and Ephraim had African blood in them. Joshua also came from the tribe of Ephraim. Africa will play a major part in the armies of God to take the Church into the fullness of the place the Lord has prepared for her.

This is a new season. Anyone who will not move with what God is doing will be left behind. There is a place where 'God is' and a place where 'God was.' Judgment is inevitable for people, Ministries, and nations who miss their time of visitation; they will be on their own and will suffer unnecessary struggles.

There is coming a global war, and in that season, the lord will make Africa a house of preservation for people; many will come to find refuge in Africa.

GHANA;

The nation of Ghana has entered her season of restoration and a major prosperity will soon come to her by an oil boom. She would be a very rich country in Africa. God's favor is on her. I see the Lord raising a mission body in Ghana sending its citizens as missionaries to the nations of west Africa and Europe. Yet many of their leaders are yet to understand the plan of God for Ghana.

NIGERIA;

She will soon become a developed country. She has entered her season of restoration in the year 2010. The present terrorism in Nigeria, especially shakings in 2011-2015 is paving a way for the coming greater glory. The greater the coming glory, the greater the shaking. The Lord will raise a leader who will judge corruption and nations of the earth will flock to come and dwell there because of the peace and honesty of the people.

IRAN;

Who can fight God? The nation that tries to fight Israel or the people of God will fail. The Lord will preserve Israel. Yet, her weapon was allowed to be developed which will serve a purpose of the end time. In the season of the greatest shakings to come on the earth on which there would be the use of atomic weapons, I see that nation becoming an instrument in the hands of satan against God's people. There will come a season when the atomic weapons will be used to attack great nations. Millions will perish in one hour. This is not a prophecy of doom. When you study the Book of Revelation, you will know that we are in the end time and it says that such event will take place. But the Lord will deliver the righteous, Daniel12:1.

The Lord says:

• To be a part of what He is doing, you will need to make a major adjustment to follow His will.

• Following Kingdom pattern is the key to God's visitation.

• Your provision is in your location. Learn to understand your physical and spiritual location.

• He says that greater grace is to depend on Him.

• Many believers are distracted by many things they think it is important. Distractions will stop you from spending a quality time with God and it can hinder you from receiving blessings.

• There is a big difference between a builder and a wise master builder. A wise master builder builds according to pattern. Building according to the Lord's pattern is what will give you a lasting success and a reward in the age to come.

• Many believers today are in the pot of fire – the refining fire of test to prepare them for their future Ministry, but they think it is the enemy who is at work in their lives. The Lord is good at shutting wombs and Ministry until the appointed time of release.

• There is a generation of spiritual fathers whom the Lord has left; the glory has already departed from them. Yet they still have big churches and Ministries.

• Faith without action is dead. You need to act when God speaks. He will keep bringing situations or visions that will keep your faith alive. Don't wreck your faith and conscience toward the things of the Spirit.

• When your work is finished in a place, He will take you to another place.

• Believers are playing politics with their abilities; they use it to manipulate and make money for themselves without investing in His work.

• He says that a time is coming that the Church will become a very powerful institution on earth.

• God's Kingdom will rule the earth and not democracy.

• Start caring or supporting the orphans, the widow and the less privileged people with the little resources you can afford. Do not be selfish to eat your income alone.

• The "money raising" anointing of the backslidden spiritual fathers have entered into the lives of the young Ministers whom the Lord is planning to use mightily in this season.

• Dominion is our call; we must possess the gate of our enemies.

• God is raising a generation of believers who will be financiers for His work. Their wealth will come by a Word from the Lord.

• Two major keys will give you a breakthrough in this season; a sacrificial life and a life of giving praises to the Lord in all circumstances.

• Arise and shine for a brand NEW DAY has come to you. People will see your good work and glorify the Lord.

Daniel Affi is the president and founder of Mentoring Nations International Ministry and the founder of The school of The Prophets. He was commissioned by God to write Christain books. He functions in the prophetic ministry for about 18 years and God is confirming the words with accuracy, with signs and wonders. God had given to him hundreds of visions, dreams, and prophecies about people, families, churches and nations, which all came to pass. He has a great passion for revival and the salvation of the muslims. He is happily married to Nadine Daniel and they with children. They all reside in Jos, Nigeria in West Africa.

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