*Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash This is the final part in our prophecy series! I hope it's been fun and helpful to you! To close things out, we're going to get super practical and discuss how Christians should go about sharing prophetic words. 7. There’s an etiquette to sharing prophecy. This point is so deeply connected to the…
5. Getting a prophetic word wrong doesn't necessarily make someone a false prophet. Now let's really spice it up! This is my favorite one to talk about, if I'm being honest. :-) In both the Old and New Testaments, false prophets/teachers are defined in two ways: (1) people who intentionally fabricated messages from their own imaginations and claimed those words were from…
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash More than once I've found myself in a YouTube video rabbit hole or in real-life conversations with Christians who are sharing their suspicions about prophecy and other spiritual gifts. I've noticed a common thread that those reservations are usually based in misunderstandings about the gift of prophecy and how God uses it in…
***This is follow-up post to Does God Still Speak Today? In the first part of this conversation on hearing God's voice, we saw how the Bible affirms that God speaks personally to people and that He still does so today. We also talked about how to discern whether it's genuinely God's voice speaking to you. Now let's dive into the…
In high school, I heard a teacher say that if you speak to God then you're praying, but if God speaks back to you then you're crazy. That statement came from someone claiming to be a person of faith. The lesson? For Christians and those who are not, the concept of God speaking to people, let alone speaking to you,…