2 November 2007
Rhema Inspiration
Where are the True Prophets of
God?
“When will the Church begin
to seek out and find true prophets and ministers
who are making true disciples of Jesus
Christ?”
We have been studying the
Beatitudes as part of our church’s Wednesday
night service. We spent several meetings studying,
“Blessed are the poor in spirit,” and are
now studying, “Blessed are those who
mourn.” Last Wednesday night, our teacher shared
that she was mourning over the ungodly things taking
place at a church she was aware of. I shared that as
part of God’s call on my life, He has put in my
heart a concern for the Church as a whole. The Church
as a whole is far from what Jesus Christ intends for
her to be and, in many cases, things seem to be
progressively growing worse. Actually, things are in a
crisis state and need urgent attention. We need
Christians who will respond to the Spirit of God and
mourn in spirit in a way that will touch the heart of
God to bring change, whether it is over part of the
Church or the Church as a whole. The Lord is looking
for faithful disciples who will mourn and weep over the
Church as He mourned over Jerusalem. Jesus followed
through on His mourning and went to the cross. Perhaps
it is time to ask, “What am I willing to
do?”
We need true prophets who will
call the Church to repentance and point her in the
right direction, the direction of taking up her cross
and following after Jesus. We need men who are real
prophets and look humble, loving, and bold, rather than
men who are false prophets and look like proud,
strutting peacocks! There are many people in the
Christian Church who are presently following immature,
carnal, and even false teachers, false ministers, and
false prophets. When will Christians realize that false
prophets are using the lusts of the flesh and the pride
of life to hook them into feeding their greed? When
will they begin to discern wolves in sheep’s
clothing? When will the Church begin to seek out and
find true prophets and ministers who are making true
disciples of Jesus Christ? Is there a faithful remnant
who are not being taken in by carnal, deceitful,
greedy, and errant ministers and prophets?
I recently observed some men on
television who are perceived as moving in the
prophetic. As I watched them, I was reminded of hearing
a true, and proven, minister say that several years ago
some men posing as prophets moved from country to
country saying to each country that revival would
uniquely begin with them and then spread. Regretfully,
people in each country were taken in by these men,
these false prophets as it were. Well, my discernment
says that people are still being taken in. They were
definitely being taken in by the ones I observed on TV.
We do need true prophets, but we do not need this stuff
that is currently taking place. My heart was grieved
when I saw a young person in the clutches of one of the
“prophets.” He was asking personal and
inappropriate questions about a condition on their
body. A real prophet would have been sensitive enough
not to ask, and discerning enough not to have to ask.
The crowd didn’t seem to have a clue; in their
desperation for help, they were spiritually blind and
undiscerning about all that was taking place.
I heard a minister on tape
teaching on the spirit of the Antichrist. He said that
the Charismatic movement was a likely place for the
spirit of the Antichrist to work because it was largely
ignorant of the Word of God, lawless, and crazy about
spiritual gifts. He went on to say that in spite of
this, he does think that the Charismatic movement is of
God. This minister has since gone to be with the Lord,
but I do believe his discernment was correct. I am not
singling out the Charismatics just so the other parts
of the Church can say I told you so. There are some
issues, major issues, in all parts of the Church that
God wants to address. I am looking for Baptists,
Methodists, Charismatics, Pentecostals, etc., who will
unite in faith as disciples of Jesus Christ and mourn
and weep over the present state of the Church.
When will true prophets be
received, accepted, and listened to? When will enough
people in the body of Christ wake up and unite in faith
to be what Christ called His Church to be? Until this
happens, the types of things that I am writing about
are going to grow and spread like a cancer, or a
wildfire. Will you please understand that you cannot
ignore what is going on? Will you please understand
that what happens in one part of the Church affects all
of the Church? Will you wake up and look beyond your
personal situation and/or group? God, help us, please!
Where are the true prophets of
God? They are out there if you will search for them. If
you do not want to accept that there are still true
prophets of God, just cry out for real ministers who
will address the issues with truth and power, and will
move the body of Christ in the right direction. Let the
Church be the Church! Let there be a Church with Christ
formed within, united in faith, holy as God is holy in
all her conduct, ministering truth, and shining for
Jesus Christ.
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BIBLICAL APPLICATION:
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you
who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how
often I have longed to gather your children together,
as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you
were not willing. Look, your house is left to you
desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again
until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of
the Lord.'" Matthew
23:37-39 NIV
Pastor Wayne Wilson
New Covenant Church of Jesus
Christ
3147 Klondike Road, SW, Conyers,
GA 30094 USA
770-760-1101
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