WOF 1971 - 06 June, Thus Saith the Holy Ghost

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The Word of FaithPUBLISHED B Y KENNETH E. HAGIN EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION, P . O . Box 50126,

TULSA, OKLA . , 74150 June, 1971 V o l . IV N o . 6

T H U S S A I T H T H E H O L Y G H O S T

omans 8:14, "For as many as

e led by the Spir it of God,

ey are the sons of God ."

e t ' s study today about the use

the gift of prophecy along

e lines of guidance. Of eo ur se ,

hen we come to prophecy, we

ve two things that are very

ose ly ass ocia ted: the minis trythe prophet, and the gift of

ophecy. Many time s folk as

ci ate the t wo; and while they

e associ ate d, they are not the

ame. Just because one pr o

he sie s doe s not make him a

ophet.

e Word of God plai nly teaches

that all are to seek and desire

prophesy . If prophes ying

ade you a prophet, then it is

aying that ev er yo ne ought to

ant to be a prophet; yet Paul

ainly made known to the Cor

thians that all are not pr o

hets. He said, " A r e all apos t

s ? are a ll prophe ts?" The

nswer is no, of co ur se . So

veryone couldn't be prophets,

ut all can prophesy.

peaking with tongues is a

upernatural utterance in an

nknown tongue. That is, it isnknown to the speaker , ye t it

ay not be unknown to e v e r y

ody. If you ar e w itne ssi ng to

omeone and you become an

nted by the Spirit to witness,

u say things you never thought

That is rea ll y a minor

perat ion of the gift of proph ecy.

ou we re inspi red beyond you r

elf. The Spirit inspired you to

ay those things.

Sometimes proph ecy can be

used in pr ay er . Someti mes when

praying, in your own language

as we l l as in tongues , you be

c o m e inspi red to pra y. I'v e been

pra ying in English, and have be

c o m e so inspi red to pra y in

English with the anointing of

God ' s Spirit mo vin g upon me,

until I just listened to mysel ffo r an hour there on my knees.

I knew it wa s c om ing out of

me, but my mind didn't have

a thing in the wor ld to do with

it . That was pro phecy; it was

inspired utterance. A l l inspired

utterance is prophecy.

Sometimes when you are pro

phesying it wi l l seem as if there

are two of you. Have you ever

been there? We l l , t here ar e two

of you in a way - there ' s the

outward man and the inward

man. Thi s pr ay er is com ing

out of the inward man, and

with the outward man we can

list en. S ome tim es when I am

preaching this anointing comes

upon me, and I'll hear mysel f

say things I haven 't thought of,

It wi l l se em as if I' m standing

right beside myse l f listening.

Actual ly this is coming out ofthe inward man, and I'm listen

ing with this outward man - this

body, my natural mind and my

natural ea r s . While preaching

I ' ve heard myse l f say things,

and suddenly I thought with my

mind, "Wel l , I 'm going to listen

to that; I 'm going to get that.

I don't know that myself." That

also happens sometimes when

I' m praying.

Your mind doe sn' t have anything

to do with it; it co me s out of

your spir it beca use of the Holy

Spi ri t with in you. Tha t is a

l ower deg re e of the operatio n of

prophecy. Then these proph etic

utterances take on the ec st ati c

fo rm that we .h ea r in our mids t

sometimes.

As minis ters , we study and pr e

pare sermons. The W ord of God

tea che s us t o study. Paul sai d,

"Study to shew thyse lf app rov ed

unto God, a workma n that

neede th not be ashamed ." In

teaching I follow an outline and

study more closely than I do

otherwise; but then in prea chin g

the anointing of Go d' s Spir it

comes .

Things begin to come to us,

and we say things that we 've

never thought of. It s tart les

me somet imes . We l l , that is

st i l l a manifestation of pr o

phesy, a manifestation of in

spir ed utterance. It is cert ainl y

'supernatural. It is ins pire d ut

ter anc e, and all utterance in

spired by the Spirit of God is

r e a l l y prophecy.

Even tongues with int erpr etation is prophecy in its varied

f o r m . Tongues with interpre

tation equals prophecy. Paul

said, "Greater is he that p r o -

phesieth than he that speaketh

with tongues, excep t he int er

pr et ." He is sa ying if you speak

with tongues and interpret, that

is eq uivel ent to pro phe cy. Of

cour se ' he i s talki ng about

ministering there, not necess-



ari ly praying with tongues and

inte rpreti ng in your own l ife.

Prophecy is more in use than

folk have thought. Many times

they think of just one part of it,

when actually that is only one

manifestation. Just because you

pro phe sy doesn't make you a

proph et. Fo r a man to be a p r o

phet, he stands in that office

and uses that ministry.

T h e r e are other things that go

along to make it the ministry

of a prophet. The simp le gift

of p rophecy in the Ne w Te st a

ment i s speaki ng unto men to

edification, and exhort ation, and

comfort , and it should on ly be

used in that a rea . You can see

readily, in the simple gift of

prophecy t here is no fore tell ing .

However , you wi l l find in the

mini stry of the prophet t here i s

foretell ing and predictio n be

cause he has so me of the r e v e

lation gifts oper atin g - word of

wisdom, word of knowl edge,

and/or discern ing of spi rit s.

Another thing we need to rea

l ize is that spiritual things can

be misused, as we l l as natural

things. Some people say, "How

can that be if God is doing it?"

We l l , it i s m en doing it by the

inspir ation of the Spir it of God .

Anything that man has anyth ing

to do with isn 't perfect.

The Spirit of God is pe rfe ct,

and the gifts of the Spirit in

the msel ves are per fec t, but they

cert ain ly are not alway s per fec t

in manifestation because they

are manifested through an i m

perfect v es se l. That is the re ason why pr ophe cies and tongues

with interp retati on need to be

judged.

Le t ' s look in the scr iptures at

some things. Ac t s 13:1 says,

"Now there we re in the church

that was at Antioch certain

prophet s and tea che rs; as Ba r

nabas, and Simeon that was

ca l led N ig e r , and Lu cius of

Cyrene , and Manaen, which had

been brought up with He ro d the

te trarch, and Saul." This Saul

here was the Apost le Paul . No

t ice that the names of five men

are l isted he re. He s tarts with

Barna bas and ends with Saul.

He said, "N ow ther e we re in

the church that was at Antioch

certain prophets and teachers."

Each of the se f ive individuals

was either a prophet or a teach

er or both.

We are concerned at the mo

ment just with two of them -

Barnabas and Saul. We know

Barnabas was a teac her, be

cause the 11th chapter of Acts

talk s about him teaching. I can't

find anywhere where he had any

part of a prophet's ministry, so

I have come to the conclusion

that he was a tea cher . Now Paul

was a teach er all righ t, becaus e

it tells of him teaching; but he

al so was a prop het bec ause it

speaks about him having vi si on s

and revelations, and those are

part of a prophet's ministry.

V e r s e 2 goe s on to say, "A s

they..." I used to think this

*'they" referred to the church at

Antioch, but it doesn't. It refers

to these five men. "A s they ministered to the L o r d , and fasted,

the Holy Ghost said, Separat e

me Barnabas and Saul fo r the

work whereun to' I have calle d

them." It is my opinion that

while these five men wer e pra y

ing, one of the others who was

a prophet (not Paul of co ur se )

said this . Th at is the reaso n

it says the Holy Ghost said it.

It doesn 't say the Holy Ghost

said it to one of the individuals,but the Holy Ghost said some

thing to the whole gro up . So it is

my opinion that He ministered

here by one of the prophets.

One of the prophets spoke out,

"Thus saith the Holy Ghost...",

jus t like Agabus did in Acts

21:10. What d id the Holy Ghost

say? "Separat e me Bar nabas

and Saul for the work whereunto

I have called them."

T h e r e is somethi ng to notice

here . Barnabus and Saul weren't

ca l led by this, but they we re

confi rmed by it. They already

had the calling. They were al

rea dy in the cal li ng . They were

already in the ministry, but

God was separating them to

another mi ni st ry - to be apo st

les to the G ent il es . You see ,

the way that Go d puts a maninto an off ice is by g iving him

a gift for the task. It might be

confi rmed by prophec y so me

times, but he's not called that

way.

Al l the prop hes yin g in the world

is not going to g ive a man the

gift for that task. I've seen

people go into the min ist ry

ju st because someone laid hands

on them and prophesied that

they were to preach or be an

evangelist or be in the minis

try. These folk couldn't give

even a decent testimony, much

le ss pr each . Who would listen

to them? Som eti mes they don't

have enough sense to stop and

list en ^o rea son . Someone said,

" We l l , we aren ' t led by rea son. "

Wel l , so me ti me s you have to

have enough re as on to get in

out of the rain at leas t.

If God has ca ll ed a per son to

the ministry, and has separated

him, He wil l give that person

the gift for the task. Paul and

Barnabas we re n' t cal led to the

mini stry by prophec y, they we re

alr ead y in the mi ni st ry. It was

ju st confirmed that God wanted

them to be apostles to the Gen

t i les .

So you see that there is a very

fine line ac tual ly betw een there al and the fa lse - between

rea li ty and fanat icis m. It is

mighty easy to step across that

fine li ne , and do a lot of da m

age . So he re we are in Ful l

Gospel ci rc le s, where we be

l ieve in gifts of the Spirit and

so on; yet be caus e of the mi s

use and abuse and excess along

some lines, some people have

become scared and just leave



al l of it alone. They become

dead and dry and leave the

miraculous.

Then there are those on the

other side that are ready to

accept just anything that goes

forth. They go off and follow

what they call "the Spirit," and

" leave the wor ld . " The n they

get in the dit ch on the other

side of the road. God doesn't

want us to get in a ditch on

eit her side of the roa d; He

wants us to go right down the

middle of the ro ad .

Beca use of so many things that

go on today, I would be very

careful about pers ona l proph ec

ies if I we re you. As long as itstays in the r e al m of speaking

to men to edifi cati on, exhor ta

tion, and comfort, that is won

derful. But I think what happens

many times is that someone who

prop hesi es se es a prophet min

ist er. He might som eti mes have

a word of for ekn owl edg e, and

they think, " We l l , I prophesy,

so I can do that." Then they

move out of the place where

they should be into this other

re al m, and are mi sl ed and mi s guided.

In g iving d ire cti on to the church

at Corin th, Paul said , "L et the

prop hets speak two or th re e, and

le t the o ther judge." It is sup

posed to be judged the Bible

say s. Pro ph ecy is not to be

accepted without judging it.i i i iniii i i i i i i i i i i i iniii i i i i i i i i i i i i i i

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