January 2024 | Conversion: Persecutor Turns Promoter
The Blessings of True Prophecy
The gospel finds its place in men, women and children to the extent that the Holy Spirit plants and enlivens His written Word in their hearts. He does this in a number of ways. One of those ways is through the prophetic word. True prophecy is the Word of God coming through a human messenger. This ha...Read More
"It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers."(Eph.4:11) According to the Scriptures the first position of church leadership is the office of the apostle. There are those who say there are no more apostles in the world. For...Read More
PROPHETIC VOCATION AS ‘ALL-EMBRACING’ MISSION: MISSIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE BOOK OF JONAH
IntroductionProphecy and the prophetic movements are central to the Old Testament. The Prophets spoke to the specific life and times of the people of Israel. The central historical frame work for the prophetic movements can be traced from the eighth to the fifth centuries (B.C.E). The roots of proph...Read More
True Prophets vs. False Prophets
According to Ephesians 4:11-14, God has given prophets to the church along with apostles, evangelists, pastors and teachers for the equipping of the saints so that they will be ready for the work of ministry and thus the body will be edified. The Pentecostal revival of the 20th century gave a ...Read More
Women and Prophecy: Role of Women in this Ministry
There was a time when women were looked down upon and treated without any respect. They were considered as tools, merely meant to satisfy man’s needs and look after the children. There is no doubt that this attitude was the work of the devil. He always wanted to push women down. It started from th...Read More
As Amos, one of Israel’s great statesman from twenty-eight centuries ago, confessed, “I was no prophet, nor the son of a prophet” (Amos 7:14), in writing on the subject of prophets and prophecy, I must admit to the same. There are an estimated 600,000 pastors and chaplains in the United States...Read More
Maturity and Discernment in Exercising Prophetical Gifts
God has equipped each member of His Church with unique spiritual gifts to help the church grow. Paul while instructing the Corinthian church about the spiritual gifts in I Corinthians chapter 12 and 14 begins with the statement that “I do not want you to be ignorant of the spiritual gifts” (12:1...Read More
Prophecy in the New Testament Church
The Word of God describes the period of the New Testament Church as the dispensation of grace and the end times. There are no divisions in the dispensation of church revealed in the Bible between the day of Pentecost and the day of the Second Coming of Christ. There is only one faith, one hope, one ...Read More