By Matthew Robert Payne Some personal words from me about personal prophecy Personal Prophecy is normally confirmation. If we walk in the Spirit and the Spirit of the Lord is upon us in a daily walk of obedience then personal prophecy should only ever be a confirmation most times of something the Sprit was already telling us. Just as an honest rendering of scripture can bring clarity to a verse of scripture, so too can a spot of personal prophecy bring clarity to a life situation. Personal prophecy can bring new information as a forewarning. Personal prophecy can be used by God to bring us a warning of some event that is soon to happen so that we are more prepared to face it when it arrives. Jesus said when we truly seek his righteousness that we may have to suffer rejection and suffer with men and possibly lose our family and friends. Jesus prophesied correctly that even our own family may raise their hands to do us harm and think they are doing us right when He did a personal prophecy for me in scripture. Early this year I was taken to a mental ward. A personal prophecy by a modern day Apostle last year forewarned me that this year was going to be very very hard for me. As I sat in a mental ward against my will each day I remembered the personal prophecy each day of my stay and was glad at least God knew that I was going to be suffering five months before it happened. Therefore, personal prophecy can shed light on our future both good and bad, and like the prophets of old it can even come with a word of wisdom and specific directions on how to cope with the situation when it happens. Personal prophecy is NEVER to replace the Word of God. Some people can base their whole lives and all their future decisions foolishly on the words of a personal prophecy they have received. Prophets, modern day prophets and people gifted in prophecy today are able to make mistakes and still be anointed. There are multiple reasons why a prophet can be off in prophecy, their own words can cloud a personal prophecy, they can embellish or add to the true words that God spoke to make the personal prophecy sound better, they can be open to the demonic or any number of things. There is a mistaken perception that one false prophecy makes one prophet a false prophet. That may be true of an Old Testament prophet, but it is not true of a modern prophet. Each personal prophecy should be examined by the hearer of the personal prophecy and it should ring true and sit well with the spirit of the person who receives the personal prophecy. Not every preacher preaches the Truth, they are meant to expound the Word of God and they are meant to be a mouthpiece of the Holy Spirit and as teachers we hope that the Holy Spirit helps them with the message they bring, but they can be wrong and off and no one calls them false prophets or false teachers, they are simply mistaken and wrong sometimes. Jonah’s prophecy did not come true. No one stoned him! One time God sent a lying spirit into the prophets of Israel and all of them prophesied success for the army going to war and one prophet without the lying spirit prophesied that they would lose and better not fight or enter the battle. The people went with the majority and God through a lying spirit set them up for a calamity and a defeat and yet His true prophets had been wrong with their prophecies and were not killed for the false prophecy. What is important is that one does not stray from the Word of God. Anyone can give you a personal prophecy that says a whole lot of great things about your future, and yet the Word of God promises hardship and testings by God for any person bearing real fruit in John Chapter 15. The Word of God is supreme, and I am not worthy to have my prophetic words printed in the Bible, let alone have a person base their life on my personal prophecy for them, rather then the truth of the Word of God. Personal prophecy should be universal in nature sometimes and yet very personal also sometimes. Words of knowledge are always specific to a person and a given situation as was the word of Knowledge for the woman at the well about her former husbands and her current partner by Jesus, but the rest of the talk about the Living Water was universal for all of us also. God is a personal God. He alone knows us and He alone knows what He wants to say to us. It is not for us to come to Him with twenty commands and questions and make demands of a prophet in personal prophecy, the Word of God is enough for every affair of life on earth. People who think the gifts have ceased still manage to live holy and sanctified lives without personal prophecy simply by knowing the Word of God, so we also should not rely on personal prophecy to guide our affairs in life, we should be grounded in the Word of God and directed by the Word, rebuked by the Word and sanctified by the Word’s effect on our lives. That being said, there is much to be learned by reading what Jesus and the LORD have to say to other people in personal prophecy and this is why some of the daily teachings on the site are simply personal prophecies that Jesus has given people from me as a vessel. Love opens up a door, use your love and give of yourself and you will be surprised how often that even God can speak through your mouth and through your actions. God does not need you to give me money, but if you do you can be sure I will pass that on to another person or use it for something that is a greater need than having it spare in your wallet. The Spirit of the Lord Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy. All of you who claim Jesus as Saviour can prophesy and can write personal prophecy for strangers and all of you can write Spirit-led prayers for others and all of you can donate your time, your resources and something else to my web-site. Can you pray, have an hour a week you can write prayers for people that need help. Perhaps you can contact me and help on my web site Love knows no bounds, and just as the Bible is never fully understood by any one denomination of any church neither is personal prophecy ever fully understood by a mortal as good and as much as the Author knows. Want a good personal prophecy? Get to know Jesus! If you are meek and have much power but you are willing to submit to Jesus, a greater power you will inherit the earth, how is that for a personal prophecy? If you are humble and do not try and make a big name for yourself, the Word promises that you will be exalted. Jesus came from heaven’s glory and power and was born fatherless in a stinky stable. He is still the servant of all men and great high priest, but promises to those who want to submit to the cross that they can do even greater then Him on earth. Benny Hinn has done more to win people to Jesus and heal than Jesus, but many call him a false prophet. Jesus said if you want to meet God, you first need a pure heart, get pure and you can meet God. I have had the privilege of meeting God in a vision in heaven. Jesus loves you, why not submit to Him. I have to laugh. I gave $17.50 away yesterday and today. $7.50 in two Cafe Late coffees I shared with two homeless people while I had a good chat with them and $10.00 to another homeless person, and then a homeless heroin addict gave me $20.00 today as Jesus led her to give me some money and buy me two coffees. This week she is going to go into re-hab and stop taking heroin. You can be sure if you give to a poor person that has a very low income that the Lord will repay you dollar for dollar. It says so in scripture. Proverbs 19:17 17 He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD, And He will pay back what he has given. Personal prophecy should teach you, exhort you, build you up, give you direction, confirm things, confirm scripture, lead you, direct you, bring you comfort, any of these things or all of these things. Personal prophecy is good and healthy, why don’t you prophesy over me and practice on me and I will tell you if you were spot on or not. Eighteen more things about personal prophecy 1. Personal prophecy should be checked by your partner. 2. Personal prophecy should confirm and be backed up by the Word of God and never contradict it. 3. Personal prophecy should be checked by your pastor. 4. Personal prophecy should make you have more hope or become more submitted to God. 5. Personal prophecy can be really personal and yet universal in nature also . 6. Personal prophecy should not run your life. 7. You should not treat a servant of God like a Tarot card reader. 8. Personal prophecy is like the Word of God, it is only as good as your application of it. If you do not take the direction of personal prophecy seriously God will have to speak again and again to you before he gets you on the right track. 9. Personal prophecy is a great gift to give and to receive; you can bless me greatly by spending fifteen minutes writing a detailed response and feedback to any personal prophecy I give you. 10.Personal prophecy is fun to do and fun to do in person face to face and takes a bit more faith to do via the Internet, but it’s still fun. 11. If a personal prophecy does not make sense to you, getting another person to help you see it’s meaning is good for you and the prophet concerned. 12. You can do yourself a great favor if you tell a prophet that the personal prophecy you received did not seem right. Three times when I have missed the mark in personal prophecy and when I was told the resulting relationship was stronger and better after we resolved the error. 13. Personal prophecy is NEVER the real Word of God, it can only be almost as good! 14. Prophets can still fail, but true prophets will speak less about wealth happiness and great things and more about obedience, holiness and true relationship with Jesus. Personal prophecy about worldly things is more profitable for a prophet to earn money from and a big reputation but not the kind of personal prophecy I like to give. 15. The more you mix with Godly people who really obey Jesus, the more Jesus speaks directly to you through total strangers in conversation, and the more direct personal prophecy you get from your friends. 16. If you bless a prophet that has given you a personal prophecy, God’s Word says you will get a prophet’s reward. 17. Jesus likes you to obey personal prophecy, He likes you to obey His word in personal prophecy just as much as He likes you to obey His word in the Word of God! 18. Personal prophecy is a keyword that I am trying to get indexed on search engines with this web page and so that is why nearly every paragraph has personal prophecy in it ( I hope you request your own!) If you request a personal prophecy try and give me as much information as you can and try to take five minutes to comment on the prophecy and make sure you get another person to review the prophetic word and pease tell me if you have any Matthew shares his heart in these articles and can be found at http://www.online-prayer.net You can read more of his articles at his link below. If you want a copy of his upcoming book of articles which will have the first sixty of the articles on this web-site called “The Musings of a Mad Prophet” please contact Matthew via email so he can contact you around February 2007 to tell you of the progress of the book. 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