Claim a prophecy for your life today
Here are some examples of what the average Church leader today calls prophecies:
- God said there is someone here; He will separate you from those who want to destroy your vision.
- God said there is someone here, He said you have been enjoying addition, but you will soon be enjoying multiplication.
- God said there is someone here; He said very soon the complaint of your enemy will be that they can’t catch you anymore.
- God said there is someone here; they will not see you in the hospital for a long time.
- God said there is someone here; He said the delay is over.
- God said there is someone here; He said the world leader will be born in your family soon.
- God said there is someone here, He said, your next breakthrough will make national news.
- God said there is someone here; He said everything that has been holding you down has been cut off.
- God said there is someone here, He said one day very soon when you tell people you use to suffer, they won’t believe you.
- God said there is someone here; He said He will establish you.
- God said there is someone here, He said He will be your backbone
- God said there is someone here, He said, some people say they are tired of you, but one day they will say but for you in their life.
- The Lord said He will move you from moonlight to sunlight.
- God said there is someone here, He said a season of miracle is coming and He will not leave your family out of it.
- God said there is someone here; He said the biggest miracle of this year is coming from your home.
- God said there is someone here, He said there is one more weeping for you, but it is for Joy.
- God said there is someone here, He said, He will make sure that your future breakthrough will not be traded with sorrow.
Many times, the men who speak these “prophecies” acknowledge that they are merely speaking forth words that they desire to happen in the hearer’s lives. That’s bad enough. What is worse is when a man claims to actually hear God when he speaks out these lines.
Of course, whatever the man claims, the goal is to hype the listeners and get them to “claim” the prophecy for themselves, irrespective of who they are.
But are true Biblical prophecies of this vague, universal sort, or are they specific and finely-honed?
What we’ll do is pick out one or two examples of prophecy from the Bible and compare them with these other “prophecies” listed above, and see how they work out.
Agabus’ Prophecy
And coming to us, he took Paul’s belt and bound his own feet and hands and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘This is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’” (Acts 21:11)
I’d love for anyone to say “Amen” to the above prophecy by Agabus! Go on. Claim it. I bet you can’t. Why?
Well, Agabus didn’t take your belt. As such, it cannot be you, and you cannot claim it. If Agabus lied on this one, it would be easy to verify!
Let’s see another one:
Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. (2 Thesalonians 2:3-4)
Now, if the apostle Paul lied on this one, we’ll sure find out one day. But, hey, is this for anyone to claim for themselves? I didn’t think so.
Now, if I were to stand before a crowd of 500,000 people and say, “God said there is someone here, He said He will be your backbone“… Hey, who’s kidding who? Every Sade, Amina, and Ngozi could “claim” that. But would it be prophecy? Not a chance.
What if I said to the crowd, “God said there’s someone here who has a headache, He said you are healed“. But of course, the probability that there’s someone in 500,000 with a headache is unimaginable – especially if most of those present drove through hours of traffic to get to the crusade ground.
When men speak things like those listed above and call them prophecy, only people who are totally ignorant of the Bible will really think God spoke to those men.
If those are prophecies, I’m the next president of Nigeria. If you think that those lines sound more like lottery, you are spot on. Try your luck; pick one.
Biblical prophecy (revelation being the more accurate word) are specific, pointed, and absolutely verifiable.
PS: Many of you already know who gave those “prophecies”. To make sure that no-one accuses me of name-calling this time, I’ll just send you straight to the source: In the News: August 9; Day 6.
