ABOUT THE GIFT OF PROPHECY!

In Scripture, in the New Testament, it says that prophecy is a gift of the Spirit. In 1 Corinthians 12: 8,10 it talks about words of prophecy as being a gift of the Holy Spirit that some in the body of Christ have!” To one is given through the Spirit the…to another prophecy…”. In the Old Testament, in Leviticus 19:31, it talks about spirits that talk through such people as mediums and wizards and also familiar spirits ,that usually come with the voices of persons we know! “Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.”

So how can we know the difference between one and the other? In 1 Corinthians 12:10 it also talks that one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is the discerning of spirits, which we also learned in a previous blog! So we should ask the Lord God always to give us a discerning spirit to words that come our way, especially those that we are told are prophetic words for us! I think a way to test, is if we have a strong impression in our hearts about things we need to do in our lives, specially after we ask God for His will in our hearts, and then someone bears witness in his/her words to us to what we have in our hearts; then it can be a pretty good sign that it is a word from God, specially when someone tells us it is a personal word for us from God.

As it says in Matthew 7:15, some wolves come dressed as sheep, in order to devour! A personal case: about 5 years in my journey with the Lord Jesus, an elder Christian woman took me to a meeting: well, they were giving words of knowledge and this elder woman told me to go and ask them to give me a prophetic word. I took it on stride and followed her advice: well, she told me I was going to marry and become a missionary and travel all over the world! Well, I forgot about it, but later realized the elder Christian woman was trying to set me up with men in order to fulfill the prophecy! I, for one, had never held any desire in my heart to become a missionary and live in another country! And the guys she tried to set me up with really weren’t my type! So I always ignored her!

By the way, from the time I became born-again I did have a great desire to win souls for the Lord Jesus; I did not want to see anyone lost, more like an evangelist wherever I was in life! And the closest I got to the lady’s word, as not to disregard completely the prophecy, was having this blog website and proclaiming the Word in the different languages! So I do see it as going into all the world 35 years later! I do have to repent because initially I thought the woman who gave me the prophecy was no more than a witch! I think we should always be stubborn for the Lord’s way in our life in order to do the best for God! As Jesus told the woman in Matthew 9:22: “According to your faith let it be so!” Our hearts should always be after God’s heart!

A TREE AND ITS FRUIT

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits.” Matthew 7: 15-16.

ƉEÐEÐE TO YESU KRISTO ME!

Esi Kristotɔwo ƒe ŋutinya nɔ ŋgɔ yim la, woyɔ ŋkɔ ‘Yesu’ be ‘Yahweh nye Xɔname’. Tso Nubabla Xoxoa me nukpɔsusu siwo nye Aƒetɔ, Ðela, Ðela, Mawu me la, wotsɔ gɔmesese siawo yi na Yesu kple alesi Kristotɔwo xɔ edzi se. 1 Nyateƒee, emegbe la, míekpɔ Yesu azɔ be enye Ðela kple Ðela tso nuvɔ̃ kple gbɔgbɔ me viviti me, amesi kɔ ʋu ɖe atitsoga ŋu be yeatsɔ axe fe ɖe míaƒe nuvɔ̃wo ta, ne míexɔe se! Eye be Eya koe nye mɔ si dzi woato ayi Mawu gbɔ! Ekema Eyae nye míaƒe Ðela!

Ele be nuteƒekpɔkpɔ si wogbugbɔ dzi na mí azɔ be ƒomedodo nanɔ mía kple Eyama dome! Le Yohanes 3:3,16 me la, egblɔ be: “ ‘Yesu ɖo eŋu nɛ bena: ‘Vavãe, mele egblɔm na wò bena, ne womedzi ame yeye o la, mate ŋu akpɔ Mawu Fiaɖuƒe la o’….’Elabena Mawu lɔ̃ xexeame ale gbegbe be wòtsɔ eƒe Tenuvi la na, bena amesiame si xɔ edzi se la nagatsrɔ̃ o, ke boŋ wòakpɔ agbe mavɔ.’ “ Azɔ hã le Yohanes 11: 25-26 me gblɔ be: “ Yesu gblɔ nɛ be, ‘Nyee nye tsitretsitsi kple agbe la. Ame si xɔ dzinye se la, togbɔ be aku hã la, anɔ agbe. Eye ame sia ame si le agbe eye wòxɔ dzinye se la, maku akpɔ o. Èxɔ nya sia dzi sea?’ “

Eyata ele be míaxɔe ase ahatrɔ dzime tso míaƒe nuvɔ̃wo me be ƒomedodo nanɔ mía kple Mawu dome azɔ si toa nuteƒekpɔkpɔ si wogbugbɔ dzi kple Yesu míaƒe Ðela kple Aƒetɔ la me ko! “Kristotɔwo ƒe agbenɔnɔ ƒe gɔmedzedze bia be woade dzesi ame ŋutɔ ƒe nuvɔ̃wɔwɔ eye wòaɖoe kplikpaa be yeaɖe asi le ɖokuitɔdidi ƒe agbenɔnɔ ŋu.”2

DE DZESIIWO

1Sinclair B. Ferguson, David F. Wright kple J.I. Packer, eds., Mawunyaŋutinunya ƒe Nyagɔmeɖegbalẽ Yeye, (Downers Grove: Inter-Varsity Press, 1988), 610.
2Millard J. Erickson, Kristotɔwo ƒe Mawunyaŋutinunya,(Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006),959.

GBLƆ GBEÐEÐE SI GBƆNA BE NÀZƆ AGBALẼ GBƆ:
“Yesu mexɔe se be Wòe ku le atitsoga la dzi, .
Wò ʋu kɔklɔ ɖe nye nuvɔ̃wo tsɔtsɔke ta ;
Eye wògafɔ le ŋkeke etɔ̃agbe!
Menya be nuvɔ̃wɔlae menye. Meɖe kuku, tsɔ nye nu vɔ̃wo kem;
Taflatse va nye dzi me!
Va nanye nye Ðela kple nye agbe ƒe Aƒetɔ!
Akpe na Wò Yesu”