PRAY WITH US for prophetic standards statement. Father God, in the beginning was the Word. Thank You that the Word became flesh for us in Jesus. And that the Spirit of Prophecy testifies of Jesus. So help us hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches and the nations. Help us agree and understand and apply what the Spirit is saying. That way the churches can hear clear trumpet calls to act on in these strategic times.
Thank You for bringing hundreds of leaders into agreement on this Statement. Help them to mobilize the five-fold ministry in their respective areas to put it into practice. Then help them equip the saints to work out Your words, so they will not return to You void. Instead, as we speak Your truths in love, build up Your body to become a powerhouse on earth. Lead us to victory after victory until the end of time. For Your glory, in Jesus’ name, amen.
PRAYER ALERT: Prophetic Standards Statement Replies to Trump Prophecies
As of April 30, 332 ministries have signed the “Prophetic Standards Statement”. One of its originators, Michael Brown, calls it in part a response to the “failed” Trump 2020 prophecies. He says these prophecies have caused many believers to “become spiritually disoriented.” The Statement seeks to protect believers from the “powerful influence” of unaccountable prophets.
However, many Trump prophecies did not specify that Trump would resume office on January 20. We cannot deny that God is able to re-install him if He so chooses. And Trump is already the clear Republican front-runner for 2024.
But all of us can benefit from this comprehensive, carefully-articulated Statement. It can serve a basic outline for prophetic training for decades to come.
When has the five-fold ministry ever evaluated a prophecy?
Yet we might ask the hundreds of signers, do you have a plan for putting the Statement into practice? It says that prophets depend “on other five-fold ministry leaders for the interpretation and application of the revelations they receive.”
But in all the 32 years that I have tracked with prophetic ministries, I have never heard of a prophetic word that underwent interpretation and application by an apostle, evangelist, pastor and teacher. Or by “a presbytery of peers and seasoned ministers” that the Statement says is essential for a prophet. Though such evaluation must have occurred from time to time.
With our Belize Prayer Network of intercessors, I tried to make that happen several years ago. I called together intercessors with prophetic gifts and said, let’s form a prophetic company. We can learn together, prophesy together, and evaluate prophecies together. The others seemed to make it work for one night. But like Moses’ prophetic company, “they did not do it again” (Num. 11:25). One reason, I think, is that people find it more exciting to prophesy than to evaluate prophesy.
The church will need more accurate prophetic evaluation as we navigate toward the end times ahead. The book of Revelation speaks of functioning “prophets” eight times. Let us pray that this Statement stirs this key ministry to improve, mature and endure to the very end. For all our sakes, and for a great final “testimony of Jesus” (Rev. 19:10)…
Read more in ETG article Prophetic Standards Statement Replies to Trump Prophecies
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