How to Get God’s People into the Right Place

You know, I am amazed at the Lord’s fight to secure His church and to fulfill His word. Curiously, very few ministers I talk to today realize that beyond our earthly ministries the Lord has an entire kingdom to run. He listens to prayers every day and searches the world to find humans, ideally genuine Christians; that He can rely on to be His answer to those prayers. His obstacle stems from far too much mysticism and magic that has upstaged His pristine mysteries and His Spirit’s potent manifestations. Many Christians cannot tell the difference between the two. Add to this the ongoing ministry rival turf wars snarling up His plans and agenda, it is a wonder the Lord gets anything He envisioned done on earth in any generation. But miraculously, He does. This talk is meant to be what I hope is an eye opener. Paul asked God to open His people’s eyes of understanding back then; I think today that prayer is as fresh as ever.. If the Lord is going to launch His new move before what is coming down on the planet and the church hits, His people’s eyes truly must be opened and their understanding enlightened, beginning with the fact that Christianity was not made for the Christian but for its God. That is a debate I am sure I will not avoid in the future, but it is true nonetheless.

So what are we talking about here? We are talking about God’s people getting in their right places so they can get out of His way. We are talking about the new move the Lord wants despite His people’s persistent revival of the old. We are talking about apostles first learning who and what they are and taking their place to lead it all. For these things to happen God needs the right people in the right place, with the right attitude for the right reasons. And, the time is now. I would love to talk with some of you apostles and prophets about this in-depth because I believe we are poised to see this thing take off. Perhaps, God will arrange a way for us to do that in the very near future

So Here is What It Takes
To launch what He plans and forestall what is coming, God needs those who know and care about what He is doing in His kingdom and church in the eras to come, who are not so obsessed with what He has done that they forestall what He needs to do. Interestingly, many people think they have made this transition already, but most are self-deceived because they do not know what it looks like outside of their own views. They are at a loss on how it translates into action. God on the other hand, has many weighty things pressing down on Him in His effort to save His church and maintain its freedoms in a rapidly darkening world. He has millions of souls begging Him to intervene in world affairs every day. Agonized believers plead with Him who are bearing the brunt of the darkness’ campaign to rid the world of Jesus Christ and His church. What many modern Christians do not understand is that God has to answer their prayers with people, ideally with the people that populate His kingdom of light and oversee His church in the world. That would include you and me. But, if we fail to get in place, the Lord is forced to let those cries ringing in His ears daily go unheeded and the suffering that initiated them to continue. Where God is concerned, more than our ministries are at stake. His word is on the line. He is as obliged to those who have wrestled long and hard with the darkness as He is to His promises made to an indolent church that is blind too to see His big picture. All of these are why He has determined to shift His body from the old to the new.

However, a new move requires more than agreement, it requires an overhaul. Its requirements have more to do with God’s resources and provisions, called in theological parlance His economies and dispensations, than with the masses. When the Lord ends a movement, He withdraws, as human institutions do, His forces and resources. The spiritual beings assigned to it are called home or reassigned and the provisions and powers they brought with them taken from the agents and representatives of the old and given to the new. Here is what happened with David and Saul. When Saul’s day was over, everything the Most High had released to his monarchy shifted to David’s in heaven and on earth. David’s Psalms clearly show that he understood this. The entirety of the nation’s substance, wealth and yes problems and issues, were all transferred to David upon his replacing Saul. The same is true with Moses whose material and spiritual supplies likewise shifted to Joshua as seen by the angel (captain of the Lord’s hosts) that appeared to him in Joshua chapter 5. All of this is to say that more that observation, recognition, or agreement go into being ready to move on with God. Using the wilderness settlements of ancient Israel in scripture as a model; today’s new moves must follow suit. There must be a significant dismantling of the old that brought us to this place. What was good should be taken with us and resettled with either new materials or structures. Or, it should be shifted to a new spiritual as well as natural location in heaven and on earth. Naturally, the old guard cannot shift the Lord’s kingdom to the new, however discomfiting this reality may be. Those that cannot make the move must be replaced with new voices, faces, passions, and zeal.  New anointing, appointments, and institutions mark a new era in God. The old guard typically has neither reason nor incentive to disrupt their comfortable success to comply with what He needs. A new guard in contrast starts out with God’s heart and less external influences to threaten His impending change. They are more unencumbered than the old who may have many fidelity and financial strongholds to contend with that can prevent them from transitioning without great cost and loss. These are why He must raise up new people to ignite His new moves: only a few are bold enough to sever the ties with the old that bind them to it.

In the case of the move to apostleship from evangelicalism and charismata, the demands are no less stringent. New move change agents are going to have to make up their minds to surrender all and take up fully the new. They are going to have to uproot and preempt much of what they relied on to in the past. New move change agents will have to depose everything that bars their entry into the new, beginning with their own hearts. They are going to have to be willing to bid a fond but necessary farewell to old familiarities, sentiments, and covenants. This is hard and when explored in the light of family, friends, opportunities, and advantages, it can be intimidating and overwhelming. That is why so many people are tempted let the Lord just pass on by them as He did when He in the gospels called other apostles to join His campaign on earth.

Truly in these last days His words in response to their reactions to Him ring true, “Many are called, but few are chosen.” Let us keep this in mind as we explore the heart and agenda of God during this very pivotal time in kingdom history. Millions of souls today will soon be faced with a once in a lifetime date with destiny, I pray we all choose wisely and do not renege on our word once we learn the true cost of what we chose to let go to follow Him.

God bless you,

Dr. Paula Price

Wouldn’t You Like to Know About Prophetic Companies? Part One

From time to time, I am impressed of the Lord to write to you about one of the two ministries that He is focusing much of His attention on right now. That, in this case, would be the apostle and the prophet. This two-part article concentrates on the prophet. In particular, it addresses the Lord’s impending restructure of prophetic ministry. Here I focus on the one organizational structure that scripture alludes to God’s model for organized prophetics; it is that of the Prophetic Company. Because of the importance of prophets gathering today, the time proven strength in numbers principle that secures any institution must come into play. That has to happen if the prophets’ struggle for acceptance and respectability is to begin and hold. In the first of this two-part discussion, I talk about the single hindrance to prophetic unity that must be removed if this work is to succeed in the present era. It is the routine typically perceived as boring that most people would give their souls to avoid.

For decades, I have been asked all sorts of questions on the prophetic. As many of you know, I devoted the main of my ministry years researching and answering these questions and publishing them in various texts. Over the years, the Lord has been reinstituting this office and settling it as a permanent fixture in His New Creation church. As He has done so, He has released increasingly profound revelation about the office and how it should function in the modern church, and its societies. These will continue to surface until the Lord finally gets the institution He is going after; which is a prophetic institution not consumed with rivaling Satan’s, but one that resurrects the mantles and ministries of the successful Bible prophets. Such an institution takes work, requires order and structure, and can only flourish in an atmosphere of uniformity. Uniformity rests on routine.

In a direct contradiction to the popular gift driven charismata we have all grown up on that implies the spectacular is the norm for the Almighty, in truth God is the opposite. He once told me, as that He is in the routine. He wanted me to know that without the routine the spectacular could never be. As I pressed Him to explain what He meant by what He said, He reminded me that the sun, moon, stars, seasons and times are all products of routine. Humans may vary their daily behaviors from time to time, but even they eventually settle into some sort of routine. Routines rely on several things, such as standards, uniformity, consistency, habitual practices and regularity. Without these, what stabilizes life, everything that prospers it, empowers and enriches it never has time to happen. For instance, harvests take time. Crops grow in their appointed seasons. We rely on night and day to plan our activities, to sleep and awake. Regular hours help our companies run productively and permit us to earn the wages that sustain our lives. Everything about us subsists on routines. Schools, government, businesses and even recreation and vacations all hold to routine schedules and seasons. You depend on your favorite establishment to open on time, but to close when it says it will, too. If it closes early when you counted on it to be open until a certain time, you are frustrated when you find it closed. Very disastrous things happen when life and society break their word and vary their routines. Routines tell us what to respect, how to plan and what to do to succeed. They make things predictable and whether we like to admit it or not, predictability makes us feel safe and confident. They let us know how to live life on purpose.

No matter how unencumbered a person may be with the duties and responsibilities of life or how disengaged he or she is from the world’s mundanity, everyone in some way or another falls into routine patterns of living. Routines are rooted in customs, they are how standards and norms are born, and they become the rule of thumb. Laws impose routines because they aid continuity and inspire the standards that give us the consistency we need to build trust. Routines characterize things that have been around a long time and they let us know who is taking care of us in this life. Qualities like credibility, perpetuity, and reliability all depend on routines; it is how they all get their start. We all take a wait and see attitude with newcomers and new things, demanding them to prove themselves to win our trust. The proof we look for comes from observing their consistency, stability, and responsibility. It is what we use to confirm these. Routine is what has been lacking in the prophetic.

People today are still wondering about its future. Will it survive, thrive, become safe and established, or will it finally fizzle out and if it does, what will cause its fizzle? The answer in a word is routine. Some synonyms for it include normal, habitual, efficient and professional. Additionally, things like schedules, customs, habits and practices, and regularity join them as the results of routine. All of these are words used by organizations to gain people’s trust and assure their successful continuance. They are how organizations earn and attract a following. By the way, organization is another lacking feature of today’s prophetic, and routines enable that as well. Both grow out of consistency. Consistency adds the dimensions of constancy, stability, and steadiness to routines’ uniformity and regularity. Put all of these together and you get the point.

Until the prophetic uniforms itself, it will remain fractured, unsteady, and suspect to those it hopes to serve. Distrust will be its ruin because it fails to surrender to the single mandate imposed on all creation, establishment of a regular routine. How can it avoid this fate? By uniting, and not just its mantles, ministries and exploits. Every member and leader called to this service must unite in thought, practice, habit, and criteria. While uniting for single or periodic events is a start, these are not what will standardize the institution enough to make it trustworthy or enduring. That is tantamount to networking and networking is only a baby step in the right direction. However, what the prophetic needs to thrive calls for fusing teachings, doctrine, motives and pursuits. With these, isolating the common mentality and consciousness typical of prophetic ministers is equally important.

All of these essential elements of prophetic service are the “leave behinds” that will secure it when this generation is gone. That is why I am writing you this article on the Prophetic Company. It is one organization that will see to the prophetic’s unity, uniformity, routine and regularity. Through it, the systems, methods, and premises that characterize the prophetic are born and executed. Quality, effectiveness, efficiency, efficacy and excellence are all impossible without organization, which in turn is impossible without unity, and it impossible without uniformity. Together, these all encourage and rely on the standards, criteria, and the host of other values that safeguard and elevate an organization. Every one of them is born out of a simple thing called routine. It is how long standing institutions got their start, and if we are going to preserve the prophetic, we must surrender to them to protect it. It is the responsibility of every prophetic minister to preserve this vital ministry of the Lord, and those to be served by it as well. The first step is isolating what is common—routine—about it instead of chasing its spectacularities. That is its miracles, wonders, sensationalism, melodramas and theatrics. These should all be replaced with a sobriety that should spark its eventual unification. It is essential to the standards that bring it honor and esteem. As you think on what I have said here, take some time to review the meanings of the word routine below and apply them to what you think would stabilize the prophetic.

1.       A routine is a course of normative, standardized actions or procedures that are regularly followed.

2.       A routine is a discipline that focuses on the methods used to create order.

3.       A routine is a prescribed, detailed course of action to be practiced habitually.

4.       A routine is a set of customary and often mechanically performed procedures.

5.       A routine is a customary procedure to be performed with regularity.

6.       A routine is a series or order producing tasks, chores, or duties that are commonplace to specified endeavors.

7.       A routine is a typical, everyday activity that either is proceeded by or adheres to the standard principles of routine.

8.       A routine is that which is habitual, ordinary, and typical. It is the regular, unvarying, habitual, or rote.

9.       A routine is a prescribed, detailed course of action observed as a standard procedure to be practiced in accord with established procedures or a particular rule of order.

Think about the above statements and envision how they would be helpful to settling the prophetic and organizing it to achieve credibility. Share some of your thoughts with your learners, friends, colleagues or mentees. Let me know how it turns out. I would love to hear your feedback.

God Bless!

The Modern Day Law & Grace Conflict

I greet you in the Name of our Lord and Savior Christ and I pray this letter finds you well and prospering in the name and dominion of our King. I am writing you today at the behest of the Lord Jesus. I usually break newsletters this long up into several part, but I felt the need you to give it all to you to read in its full context. I welcome your feedback on this one.

For some time I have been responding to various people and leaders individually on the matter of Old Testament observances being essential or beneficial for New Testament Christians today. Now it seems I should answer the question publicly. In respect to the present ruse being perpetrated on the body of Christ over the airways, the Lord Jesus has voiced to me, and no doubt to many others of you, a deep concern for His sheep right now. He is quite grieved over the latest delusion being peddled on them to raise funds. My office and I are repeatedly fielding questions about the Old Testament Law of giving and sacrifices being taught today as needful to reap new covenant blessings. Those who call us are understandably confused about where the doctrine fits in scripture’s grace and faith message. Because of this, the Savior is concerned about the damage His body will soon incur when those who practiced this doctrine come to Him to cash in on sacrifices and offerings given under conditions that He no longer honors.

Many of you out there who are fascinated with Christian television personalities are setting your lives up for undue hardship in the future because you are taking their unfounded challenges to your faith and giving as gospel. You are being told that if you give a ridiculous seed on a particular day or in a certain season that coincides with the pre-Christ Jewish calendar you will receive a special blessing. Some of you are even giving your paychecks or some other large sum of money, or property to cash in on this promise. However, what you are being led to believe is just not truth. Read Acts chapter 15, paying close attention to 4-6, 10-11, 14-21. When you put all of these verses together, you see that there is just no possible way for the Lord to perform the miracles you are being promised by your favorite Christian television celebrity. Aside from the fact that very few of you are natural Jews to whom Moses’ law was written, is the added truth that the Levitical law and its ordinances are inoperative for the New Testament church. While it is true that you are a king-priest to the Lord in Jesus Christ, the reality is that you are not a Levitical Priest, but a new creation priest according to the order of Melchizedek over which our Savior was appointed High Priest forever[1]. Those who are not natural born Jews have never had any portion in the commonwealth of Israel, which is the fundamental purpose of Christ’s incarnation anyway. Recall Acts 15:14. Unless you are a converted Jew, any observation of Moses’ Law on your part is empty. If you convert to Judaism for your special seeds, sacrifices, and offerings to count, then you are no longer a Christian.

In addition, to reap your New Covenant priestly benefits and privileges under Moses’ Law as a church leader or minister, you need to have been born a Levite because that is the tribe that mediated the priesthood from which all those who ministered under the law were born. Jesus Christ, who validates our eternal priesthood was born of the tribe of Judah, which by the way harks back to Melchizedek who reigned in Salem, ancient Jerusalem. The unspoken implication made in the epistle to the Hebrews who received Christ Jesus as their Messiah, is that Melchizedek is somehow linked to the tribe of Judah that ultimately, thanks to David, became the tribe from which Israel’s successive kings sprung. This all happened after rulership passed from the tribe of Benjamin under Saul of Kish to Judah under David the lineal father of Jesus Christ, whom Pilate recognized as the King of the Jews[2]. By the way, the gospels make this declarative observation about Jesus nearly twenty times. Melchizedek is how we got Jesus as our High Priest and Jesus is how we enter Melchizedek’s eternal priesthood. Melchizedek, the New Testament Hebrew text reveals, officiated creation’s Luciferian sin with an entire immortal priesthood that preserved the earth and served the Most High until Abraham was called and sealed.

When it comes to offerings and sacrifices to please God, Abraham’s covenant did not require a regimen of sacrificial giving according to moons, seasons and the like, to be accepted. You do know by the way, that the Passover and the majority of the Old Testament observations were directly tied to heaven’s rotational cycles. The scripture says that God kept it simple for Abraham. He just required the man to accept Him as who He said He was and believe the promises made to Him. Once Abraham did those two things, he forever etched his place in God’s righteousness, heart, and world salvation plan. Abraham’s faith then became the standard of righteousness that established him as the future “heir of the world” before any discussion of laws, Passovers, or sacrifices were ever mentioned. He probably did not know that they were in his descendants’ future. He model then is our new covenant pattern. Abraham, by the way was not a Jew when God called him, he was a Babylonian prophet serving other gods in Ur of Chaldea. The Jewish part came much later.

It would seem from tracing all of this, that the only period where the Most High required regimented offerings related to death, as the whole Passover piece was about death and not life, was under the Mosaic Law. Before Moses’ system, the goal was life as the Creator deems it and after Christ, the goal remains the same. To facilitate His eternal life covenant, the Lord began with Melchizedek an eternal being without beginning of days or end of life. This king-priest ruled in ancient Salem as the king of righteousness. Before Abraham is called or chosen, before Levi, the father of the Levitical Priesthood is born, and way before Moses’ Law, this celestial being ministered on earth as priest of the God Most High[3]. What was the object of his encounter with Abraham? Life–the God kind of life that supersedes and transcends the death curse pronounced upon the whole planet. That kind of life is still the purpose of God’s bestowals to the earth, only now post Calvary, the life is bound up in Jesus Christ the firstborn over all creation, from the dead, and over the New Testament church. As you can see, no matter what your cherished televangelist tells you, there is just no way for the Lord to honor their promised rewards on your Old Testament observances.

It has been taught that portals open at holy day times of the year to create special access points between the invisible world and ours. In response to that, I call your attention to John 1:51, a variation of Genesis 28:12. Both are referring to open heavens, Jacob’s as the future father of Israel, and Jesus Christ as the Savior of the world. Let us look at both passages to see if we can discern any differences between them. First Jacob’s ladder (portal). “And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it (the ladder). And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;” Gen 28:12, 13 (KJV). In the Genesis version, there is a ladder where the angels, God’s ministering spirits ascend to heaven and descend to the earth to officiate Jacob’s covenant according to God’s promise to Abraham his father. This they are doing before any hint of Moses or the law enters the picture. Now for John’s version. “And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.” John 1:51 (KJV) Do you see anything different between the two versions since both are referring to open heavens, portals if you will? I will tell you what the difference is. Jacob had a ladder that angels attending to his promises from the Lord traversed to bring the blessings of the Almighty’s world into his. Jesus in comparison has angels ascending and descending as well, but they are not climbing up a ladder rung by rung. They are traversing literally upon the Lord Himself. He is the ladder, the portal, and their access and egress points and has always been according to Micah 5:2. Here is why the gospel chroniclers’ can write that at His baptism the heavens were opened. It is also, why the Lord assured His apostles that they would stay that way and gives them the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Furthermore, it answers why and how the Holy Spirit could get through to the earth and Stephen could see Jesus standing at the right hand of the Majesty on high. Moreover, it says how the Lord could get Paul to the third heaven and what enabled John’s apocalyptic drama on Patmos.

What all these examples share is that heaven’s portals are always open and seasonal observances do not affect them. Thus, Jesus says in Revelation 3:7 that He opens and no one shuts and shuts and no one opens. It is all about Jesus and not Moses.[4] From the moment, the Lord launched His redemptive campaign to redeem the earth and humanity eternity’s portals were open[5]. They do not, especially under the Christ dispensation, open and shut according to the seasonal rotations of the earth. Jesus is here by His Spirit and as the Sovereign of sovereigns; the heavens remain open to His Spirit and His church. It is how He could decree that what is bound or loosed in heaven is likewise bound and loosed on earth and vice versa.

The contrast between Jacob’s ladder, also called a portal, and Jesus’ is this. What the Father rewarded Jesus with as an open heaven far exceeded what He did for Jacob in Genesis 28:12. Whereas Jacob’s ladder bestowed heaven’s blessing upon Jacob, Jesus Himself, when the heavens (all portals) were opened to Him, was made the actual ladder itself. Therefore, the idea that portals open and close on the Son of God’s church that is covered by the Holy Spirit is untrue. The portals of eternity were opened by Jesus’ ascension into the heavens. The Holy Spirit was sent to keep them open to us, which is why He is stationed in the planet. They will stay that way until the Lord retrieves His beloved bride from the earth. In light of this additional insight, the only thing you will reap from believing otherwise is a great deal of heartache over time because what you believe God to do for you at errant teachers’ words will not happen. The Lord, who cannot lie, will not uphold or reward error. So you really cannot expect Him to back false messages, prophecies, or tests of your faith. He will not reward your carnal giving with the Lamb’s spiritual blessings. They come from two very different kingdom administrations, one heavenly and the other earthly, Ephesians 1:1-5. Above all the reasons that He will not do so, is that the spiritual provisions, angels, portions, and ordinances that once dispensed Moses’ economy before Jesus Christ are gone. The angels over the seven churches and their inheritances are not the same custodians that mediated and administrated Moses’ Law. Therefore, there is just no way for God to get a harvest to you from a completely defunct institution. It is like trying to get a refund or a product from a company that has been out of business for decades. You may feel it should deliver to you, but it just is not there any longer to do so. That is how it is with this latest teaching on Passover and other Old Testament observances being forced on your life. The outcome for many of you is that you will lose your apartments. Others of you will fall behind in your mortgages and maybe lose your home because you sent the bank’s money to a television ministry. More of you will mishandle your children’s’ tuition or your company’s funds. Countless of your vehicles will be repossessed and you will find yourself unable to meet your monthly debts for a while and more than a few of your savings will be lost. All of this will be because you believed and followed errant counsel. You see such outcomes are the pre-appointed consequences for Gentile born believers who attempt to work Moses’ Law without being a natural or converted Jew. Read very carefully Galatians 3:10 for further guidance. Paul makes it plain that if you attempt to do merely a small fraction of the law you activate all of the powers, forces and agencies of Moses entire law. If you fail in the slightest point of it, you are considered by the Lord’s justice system to have failed the entire Old Testament judicial system. In short, you cannot cherry pick the parts of Moses’ Law to revive and the parts to ignore. You do either the whole thing or no thing. That is what the word of God says and since your pet preacher cannot overwrite the scriptures that Jesus says must be fulfilled, you would be wise to trust the writings of His founding apostles and prophets and not the word of Christianity’s late comers.

For all of these reasons, the Lord Jesus asked me to write this letter to warn His flock of the dangers of allowing itself to be constantly tossed to and fro by unscrupulous and unlearned teachers, leaders and messengers. The matter weighs so heavily on His heart because it is an old one that smacks of the very same issue He fended off for His church through Paul the apostle, who wrote the largest part of the New Testament. Once again, Jesus finds Himself embroiled in the Law and grace struggle. Only this time it is rearing its ugly head for wholly different reasons, profitability and not preservation. In the days of the early church, the tussle between law and grace, Moses and Messiah, was based on Judaism’s effort to avoid being displaced by the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior it had rejected. Today, the motivations are entirely different and not nearly as noble. While the contest is the same, strongly established Christianity, who should be the favored contender in the battle appears to be conceding to its challenger, the Judaic law. However, the church’s reason for succumbing to this clash is not the one that drove Paul and the early apostles to risk life and limb for the gospel of truth. They put it all on the line for what apostles exist to do, to manifest, disseminate, and popularize Jesus Christ as the world’s Messiah, not the church’s cash cow. Today’s messengers on the other hand, are resorting to this tactic to pay their bills; their exorbitant media bills. Meanwhile, they are asking you to go without paying yours and to risk your livelihood and well-being for theirs. To seduce you they are reviving the age-old contest between law and grace to coerce you into sowing into what cannot profit and sacrifice what is unnecessary. What makes the stratagem most heinous is that it takes advantage of the abolisher of law’s highest celebratory season, resurrection time, which coincides with the Old Testament Passover.[6]

This latest challenge to God’s truth goes back to John’s Gospel, in verse 1:17. Here is what it reads:  “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” KJV. There it is in black and white; the “Law and its rituals, implements, and requirements was given by Moses and according to Hebrews 2:3 and 4, mediated by angels. The first law, Moses’, was spoken by angels, God’s created beings. The New Covenant in Jesus Christ was spoken by the Lord from heaven, the Creator[7]. The greatest thing Moses’ Law provided was protection and promise. The Lord Jesus’ covenant guarantees a thorough remission of the law of sin and death that made the first covenant necessary[8]. His remissive act is so thorough that it goes beyond atonement in the same way that a paid debt excels payment plans. So, what is the big deal? Why is there a contest in the first place since it is all about God anyway? The reason you need to know God’s problem with your being driven back to the law is stated best in Colossians 1:27-3:5. But far exceeding this are Isaiah 8:14; Romans 9:23; 1 Peter 2:8. God is never the problem, Jesus Christ as God incarnate is. He is the rock offense and the stumbling stone that trips up every believer who finds it difficult to be justified by faith. For those of you with an ear to hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches, I am completing a thorough teaching on this subject to help you defend yourself. If you are interested, you may call my office to be notified of it and to place an order. God bless and remember, the Lord says, “Now the just shall live by faith, but if any may draws back my soul shall have no pleasure in Him.” Hebrews 10:38.

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[1] Hebrews 5:6, 10; 6:20; 7:11, 17, 21.

[2] See Matthew 27:37.

[3] See Genesis 14:18-20.

[4] Numbers 12:7 and Hebrews 3:1-6.

[5] Matthew 11:12.

[6] Revival, there is that word again. Charismatics just cannot help being susceptible to manufactured revivals.

[7] Ephesians 3: 9.

[8] Romans 5:14-21.

Non-Ecclesia Prophet Engagements

The Business Prophet

What is a business and industry prophet? Also possibly called an organizational or marketplace prophet, this manifestation of the prophet’s mantle is peculiarly suited to working with entrepreneurs, politicians, and secular professionals of varying types and mantle-compatible industrialists. The range of non-church services it can provide easily spans all fields of endeavor. Preparing this sort of prophet requires solid rooting and grounding in God’s word of truth, exposure to business principles and practices in general and significant education in the particular secular arena the messenger is assigned by God to oversee and/or occupy.

Organizational Prophet Challenges

Organizational prophets’ serve the Lord quite differently from the ecclesial prophet because the customary insulations that allow the free expression, operations, and intrusions of the prophet’s mantle are greatly curtailed in non-church or non-Christian settings. Such prophets then, must behave shrewdly when delivering the Lord’s word, wisdom and counsel in secular spheres because of the diversity of hearers, backgrounds, belief systems, and of course legislation. Hence, such prophetic service is more scrutinized and exposed to more antagonistic criticisms than the church or Christian ministry prophets. What this means is that the prophet must be knowledgeable, diplomatic and tactful. This type of prophet must also be resilient and thick-skinned. That is, resistant to frontal attacks on his or her service, ministry, and demeanor.

Apostolic & Prophetic Unions

As we are learning today, New Testament prophets are quite stunted without their apostolic counterparts and coverings. That is because the New Testament church was founded by apostles, unlike the establishment of natural Israel that was built upon the prophets. It would seem from this model that in things pertaining to earth and its duty to the laws and covenant of God, the prophet is sufficient. However, under the new world order dispensation of Jesus Christ things shifted. The emphasis on the earth is now bound up in His church whose eternality bears heavily upon it. Therefore, the apostle sits as the capstone of all heaven to earth business and transactions. Nonetheless, the fact remains, neither officer is complete without the other and that is the importance of apostolic and prophetic teams. The inherent lone ranger mentality of the prophet has to give way to a team mentality where the weightiness of the apostle’s mantle protectively over arcs its customary latitudes. Prophets, according to the model given us in scripture are innately compatible with apostles and are therefore designed by God to accompany them as they discharge the duties of apostleship. Apostolic prophets are those who hear, comprehend, and articulate most effectively, what the apostle is sent to do and teach. Forming the team takes skill, wisdom, insight and intense compatibility testing and training. Both ministers must know each other’s works, mantle, and spheres of service extensively in order to complement the other as needed in God’s service.

Prophetic Leadership

Prophetic Leadership is rather peculiar and difficult to fathom if one is not a prophet or an apostle. To begin with, Paul the apostle tells us that the prototypical foundation of God’s kingdom is that of the apostle and prophet. Moses, for instance, an Old Testament prophet prefigured New Testament apostleship and his work is what brought us the synergistic governance of the two mantles. Other passages bear this out as well. Here is why apostles and prophets make the best ministry team. Together they produce just the write mix for the Lord to change the world and establish anything new He wants to do. In respect to prophetic leadership, prior to Moses there is Abraham, a prophet, Isaac and Jacob, both prophets, and Joseph also a prophet. What this says is that the mantle of the prophet, although not every individual prophet, is distinctly predisposed to lead as the Almighty’s representative in the earth. Hence, quality prophetic education must include leadership and its related topics to outfit those called to exercise the Lord’s authority in high capacity positions are well equipped.

Finding Your Prophetic Place

How Do I Find My Prophetic Place?

 

Frequently, prophets ask me about purpose and placement. The majority of my questions come from young prophets, and a good number from those coming through the ministry’s preparatory trials. The question I get most often of late is, “How do I Find My Prophetic Place?” It seems to be the almost universal heart cry of prophetic messengers realizing that the open doors, and open hearts, they expected are nowhere near as open to their brand of ministry as they are to the other types. Another group that wants to know the answer to these is the prophetic late bloomers. They are the people the Lord hid His prophetic calling from until later in their lives. Similar to your Amoses for example, they were occupied in their younger years with other endeavors. After working in other fields for decades, God is now awakening them to their prophetic destiny. Upon hearing the Lord’s prophetic voice, they are just finally connecting with the prophetic side of their makeup. For many of them it is a surprise, although in hindsight some say for years they sensed something like that working mysteriously in the backdrop of their lives. With precious little time to waste on long winding search paths, the late bloomers want to know immediately what their prophetic awakening means so they can get it right, and get right into it while they can. The younger ones on the other hand, want to get it right and get right into it too, only for other reasons. They want to answer destiny’s call and make their mark in the world and in God and Christ. Altogether, I get enough calls from others outside of these two groups to let me know that this is indeed a matter to be addressed. So here goes.

Other than the apostle, there is probably no other minister in the Lord’s service harder to place than prophets. This is especially true when one thinks of their being called to more than the local church. Many prophets are scarcely confirmed and trained enough for the Lord’s church, let alone groomed enough for a secular post. One of the major reasons for the difficulty prophets face in finding their most compatible place in ministry, is how the Lord brings them into His service. The situation goes something like this. The Holy Spirit starts by altering how He has interacted with the new prophet in the past to signal that something new is about to take place between them. Sometimes abruptly, their interactions change without the prophet knowing why at first. If the person is in relationship with Jesus Christ, this is God’s approach, if not, He simply breaks His silence in their life and tells them what He called them to do. This sometimes curt encounter is preceded or caused by extensive occult experiences. Either way, the difficulty in prophets finding their place in the ministry is rooted in one of the two approaches. In which case, the personal encounter between the Lord and His future prophet and their subsequent interactions leave most of the confirmation of the calling up to the prophet to prove, unless the Lord sends another to bear witness to the secret events that took place between them. With formal career screening, verification, and schooling not being viable possibilities for this office as yet, the Lord must summon prophets to His service by approaching them directly. They in turn must answer His call by blindly going about figuring out what it means to be a prophet and how their ministry is to work. This could take years and court a lifetime of pain and suffering or setbacks in the process. Because of this, and due to the lack of a formal way to manifest and verify their ministries, prophets start out largely unaffirmed, or only marginally affirmed at best.

After a season of winging it on their own, learning what they can as the Lord gives it to them (or as they are willing and able to receive it) newcomers to this office eventually become persuaded that they either do not need a human handprint on their prophetics, or that their one on one interactions with the Lord accelerated their readiness and advanced them faster than others think. These two events can ignite a naïve pride in novices that stumbles them later as far too many conclude that what put them in their ministry is too vague and improvable to be verified or defined by human methods or tools. Such messengers are convinced that affirming prophets can only be done by supranormal[1] means. They feel the standards and procedures used by other vocations or careers are too worldly to be trusted. Prophets, they believe, are to be verified only by the prophets themselves, and maybe an admired predecessor. Now, we can debate the source of this misconception and blame this or that theology or doctrine for years, but in the end it is just wiser to simply say ‘the Lord is doing a new thing’ and get on with it. Meaning by this, that the Lord is now structuring His prophetic callings so that those He calls can be concretely confirmed in their ministry and properly placed. Another reason is so that His established leaders can better help them by taking a more active role in verifying, confirming, and developing those claiming a call to this ministry. We can all respectfully say His actions are long overdue considering the havoc some prophets have wreaked on His body in the past.

For God to initiate His new processes and procedures, and their safeguards, He has to standardize, uniform, and solidify the full range office’s essential duties and responsibilities. In view of how His prophets were introduced to and engaged in His service up to now, the effects of His actions can be shocking to most prophets. I have seen many of them stunted in their growth and ministries just because they either cannot submit to the change or have no one to help them successfully make the transition. To find your prophetic place, you need more than a prophecy or a lofty spiritual encounter that alerts you to a call to the ministry. While both may serve as great catalysts for you, the truth is that they are only announcements. After that, what do you do when the service is over and the prophet or the presbytery are gone? I have found that what most people do is call around or roam from place to place to find someone to elaborate on the word they received so they can act on it. Or worse yet, many of them just launch their ministries as they see fit only to be disappointed when the masses marks them as a novice and refuse to acknowledge them in their midst. Here is where it gets frustrating. Look at it this way. A 5 to 30 second prophecy that alerts you to a prophetic call, or any calling for that matter, is not enough for you to grasp how to fulfill it. If you rely on this alone, you will end up equipping yourself only on what you feel inside—what you sense the Spirit leading you to do. How accurate that is can take weeks, months, or years for you to find out. With the prophet and the apostle being the only two offices that you cannot enroll in a traditional or established educational program to prepare for, you are pretty much on your own. You must investigate the church or private classes (notice I said classes and not courses) that are available on your subject independently, and they can vary extensively from class to class with some being gift driven and others a hodgepodge of spiritual doctrines. For you to decide which one you should take for what you are called to do is a matter of trial and error. So how do you do it?

To choose the best prophetic readiness program for you, you need a trustworthy list of subject matter, topics, and other related curriculum information to tell you what makes for a credible and useful prophetic education program. Without that you have nothing to compare your possibilities with before choosing one. If you are like most newcomers to this office, you probably do not have access to such a resource since prophetic education is still so privatistic, and very little of it mature enough to be considered specialized. Today’s prophetic readiness and placement choices can vary drastically from individual to individual, ministry to ministry, and prophet to prophet. Do you see your obstacle here? You in your heart want to do it right and yet you cannot seem to separate the right from the wrong without help. Left to your own devises, you are most likely forced to equip yourself prophetically. What an overwhelming task. Because the way prophets are inducted, trained and used is erratic, finding one’s place in this calling is nearly impossible as everyone does what is right in his or her own eyes. This scenario is what I hear regularly when I meet people on this path. I, on the other hand, have invented a way to help you streamline the process and hopefully perfect your search.

What I developed is a series of web-based standardized ministry assessments to help prophets and all five- folders, church ministers and workers, discover their calling and place in God’s service. My system locates your purpose and destiny as a minister of Jesus Christ. It customizes your readiness program automatically, and tells you how long it will take to get where the Lord is taking you in prophetic ministry. These assessments have been used for nearly five years with more than 90% success so far, and that is a very conservative estimate. I invite you to be more than mystical about your call to this office. I encourage you to be emphatic and not enigmatic. It is your calling, your purpose, and your obedience to God. So be proactive. You do not have to stay stuck in the old move’s way of discovering yourself prophetically. 

Leap into the 21^st century and know for sure through this objective tool that you are a prophet, what kind of prophet you are called to be, and the best place for you to answer God’s call to prophetic ministry. Your preappointed sphere and particular people group are just as important to your success as your actual donning of the prophet’s mantle. Don’t settle for just discovering your mantle, know your place, your authority, and your measure of rule.  Find out what makes you ready to stand before the Lord “a workman that needeth not be ashamed.”

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[1] Beyond the range or wisdom of the normal or explainable.

Q&A: Personal Prophecy

Q& A: Personal Prophecy

What is personal prophecy? When should it be used, and how? Dr. Price answers these questions and more. Excerpts from On the Subject of Personal Prophecy now  available through the PPM Global Resources online store.

Question #1: What is prophecy? The most succinct definition of prophecy, used in the Prophet’s Dictionary is “God’s communications media.”

Question #2: Why is prophecy needed? Prophecy allows our in invisible and inaudible God to publicize His thoughts in our world through people.

Question #3: Who is prophecy for? Prophecy is for its communicator; in our case the Lord. Communication between the Creator and His creation began with God, who remains unknown without tangibly contacting us. True prophecy reveals His future for us. His wants us to inquire of reputable prophets to gives us God’s eternal answers for our lives.  Daniel’s 2:28 frankly makes this point.

Question #4: Should something called “personal prophecy” be practiced? Yes, because people desire to know the future for many reasons, and the Lord needs them to know it. Prophecy helps us plan life better, arm ourselves for its upsets, and equip ourselves to take better advantage of coming opportunities that God arranged before time. With prayer it can be an amazing tool.

Question #5: Why should people receive personal prophecy? God desires people to know His future for them so that He can guide their life decisions. Ecclesiastes 3:11 says the Lord put eternity in our hearts, why? So that He can lead us throughout life.  Job 33:14-16 adds He sealed our work in our hands for us to seek His plans for our lives because as Acts 15:18 declares, God has known from eternity all of His works. Prophecy answers our unknowns.

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