LARRY: Welcome to Something More. I’m your host, Larry Sparks, and today I’m going to tell you how you can actually be activated in the prophetic ministry. And you might be thinking, Wait; wait, wait, I’m not a prophet. How can I prophesy to people? Let me tell you 2 quick things because I believe it is biblically legal – in fact, your spiritual inheritance – to prophesy. In Ephesians 4, yes it talks about an office of a prophet. Just like you have pastors and apostles in the Church, you have prophets. And today I’m very grateful to have a guest who is a prophet, but let me tell you this. A prophet’s job is not just to hear God for you. I believe a prophet’s job is to get you connected with your prophetic destiny, and actually clear the airwaves for you to hear from God. Because even though Ephesians 4 talks about the office of a prophet, 1 Corinthians 12 and 14 actually encourages you. Paul encourages all Believers to prophesy. So today I have Hakeem Collins with me. And again, I’m – I’m so encouraged to know you, to read your material, listen to your material, –
HAKEEM: Yes.
LARRY: because you’re not being this voice saying, Hey, you know what, you got to come to me, to hear God; you’re actually helping people get connected with God, so they can prophesy. So just – just share with me a little bit, Hakeem, about the difference between the office of a prophet, and then the gift of prophecy, because I think there’s a lot of confusion about that.
HAKEEM: Yes, Larry, it is definitely. Allot of confusion about the gift of prophetic, or p- – I call it the gift of prophesying, –
LARRY: Yeah; yeah.
HAKEEM: or the office of the prophet. And the Bible is very clear, in Ephesians
chapter 5, where God set in the Church first apostles, secondary prophets, and thirdly teachers. We see that God set these gifts – these ministry gifts
– in the Church for the purpose of equipping the saints. Now we see that the prophet is a secondary ministry, but it doesn’t mean that they’re superior; it does not mean that they’re greater than any other gift. It’s just that God has a government; God has an establishment; God has a setting. And so the office of the prophet is a high responsibility –
LARRY: Mm.
HAKEEM: to the church, for the Believer to be equipped, into, their ministry. , but also there’s a difference as well between the office of the prophet and the gift of prophecy. And I believe there’s a lot of misunderstanding about that, and I believe it’s because of teaching.
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: And my heart really, as a modern-day prophetic minister is, really to bring understanding and clarity of the difference, because a lot of times because someone prophesied, doesn’t mean that they are a prophet.
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: and just because someone speaks the Word of God doesn’t mean that they have the responsibility that an office prophet has to the Church, so my job is, really to bring clarity. So as you stated, in 1 Corinthians chapter 12, it gives you the outline of the ministry –
LARRY: Yes.
HAKEEM: of the prophet. But also in 1 Corinthians, when Paul begins to give an outline of the parameter, I believe what the gift does, it is to edify the saints, to really build them up. I believe the gift of prophecy is to build up the saints.
LARRY: Yes.
HAKEEM: It’s, really to build the Church.
LARRY: Now hold on a minute here, because here’s – here’s the problem: I know back in, I don’t know, the 50s and 60s where – where we the prophetic being restored in many ways –
HAKEEM: Yes; yes.
LARRY: in the Church – t-to some degree in one wave – I think a lot of people have this – they’re a little bit scared of the prophetic, Hakeem. And I think they’re scared because they think a prophet is going to come, and, you know, call out all their sins.
HAKEEM: hm.
LARRY: Or they think, Okay, so I’m going to be activated in prophetic ministry. Does that mean I’m always looking for all the negative in people, and all that? But you’re actually talking about how it edifies; it builds people up;
HAKEEM: Yes.
LARRY: it’s constructive. So, you, please give us a definition, so we have a clear vision of what the prophetic looks like. What is it intended to do? How is it constructive?
HAKEEM: Well, the purpose of the gift of prophecy
is to bring edification, exhortation, and comfort.
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: That is the boundaries that the gift does. It’s not the office, but it’s the gift.
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: And so it is to build, to edify, and to exhort. And a lot of people needs edification; a lot of people needs encouragement; so it’s not to be used as a way to bring destruction, –
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: but it’s a gift that the Holy Spirit will allow every Believer to operate in, to bring construction. I believe that we are in a, you know, an hour where we’re looking for doom and gloom and judgment; –
LARRY: Right; yeah.
HAKEEM: but I believe that the purpose of prophecy is to really help the Believer to come into their identity, come into their purpose, to build them up in their faith; but also, to know that the gifts of the Spirit are available today.
LARRY: Yes.
HAKEEM: I believe that you know, we are in an hour where God is placing this prophetic spirit upon all flesh; we see it in Joel.
There was a prophecy that was released, that He was going to release. God was going to Release His prophetic Spirit upon the sons and daughters and they may prophesy. That means that there is a prophetic spirit that’s about to be released, –
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: but it’s not just for an – a prophet, but every Believer, Larry, can prophesy! Every Believer can speak for God, to edify, to exhort, and to comfort them.
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: This is a season; I believe it’s not for the doom and gloom, –
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: the judgment. I mean people know what they’re going through.
LARRY: They are.
HAKEEM: They know their sin; they know what their struggling; and they don’t need someone to come to identify, put a magnifying glass and say, This is what you did. You know, we’ve seen these misused and abused in the prophetic –
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: and it’s breaking my heart to see them, so my job is really, to bring clarity. I believe that there have been people that are genuine prophets, –
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: have prophetic gifting’s, but really lack the teaching and the true biblical principle of what prophecy is, –
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: and what the purpose of it. And so my job really is to really bring, make prophecy easy, –
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: and make it simple; not to make everyone prophets. I believe we can all be activated in the prophetic gift.
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: We all can move because it is, a desired, gift. The Bible talks about, in 1 Corinthians chapter 14, that we can desire spiritual gifts, –
LARRY: Yes.
HAKEEM: but also that we may prophesy.
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: But before even it said that we can desire spiritual gifts, it says, Pursue love -; that’s the first thing! So even to move into–
LARRY: Mm!
HAKEEM: the prophetic gifting, we can pursue – and have a desire – to move in love.
LARRY: Wow. Well, and even as you’re saying that Hakeem, I’m thinking to myself, you know, it’s so important that we recognize that a prophetic voice, whether it’s a prophet, whether people being activated in the prophetic – it’s not about going out calling out sins; not even about calling out judgment.
HAKEEM: Right.
LARRY: Because like you said, so many people are so beat up; people already know their sins; –
HAKEEM: Sure.
LARRY: but as a prophetic voice, you’re actually seeing past the sin, and you’re looking at that person’s destiny. You’re looking at how God sees them, –
HAKEEM: Absolutely.
LARRY: and calling those things out. That’s why a person who’s completely in sin – I’ve heard testimonies where – I’m sure you have.
HAKEEM: Yeah.
LARRY: Have you seen whacks desk situations where people were just like totally in sin – totally away from God – and yet a prophetic word activated them, turning them back on the course towards God. I mean have you seen that?
HAKEEM: All the time; all the time.
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: Everywhere I minister and I travel, my heart is, really to pull out the treasure in people.
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: The prophetic gift gives me the ability to see how God sees them; to see from God’s perspective.
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: It’s to really to see the treasure in them, and not the dirt.
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: Our ability, prophetically is, really to dig out what God sees; to dig out their full potential – their gifting’s, their callings –
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: and really call those things that be not as though they are.
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: That’s the prophetic element or the ingredients of prophecy!
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: It’s to pull those things out, that really see what God sees for them, and allow them to understand it; but also bring clarity to it.
LARRY: Yeah; yeah.
HAKEEM: But also allowing them to manifest it. So again, it’s not to really cause them to see their sin, —
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: and judgment; they already know, and they already felt like they’re, beat up.
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: a lot of times there’s a lot of abuse that I’ve seen, even as I travel Larry, where I’ve seen people use the prophetic gift, that are not prophets; but even uneducated, don’t understand the gift of prophecy, and its purpose that God has r originally assigned it in the Church.
LARRY: Yeah.
HAKEEM: They’ve used it and abused it to a point where they have cut people down, and not built them up.
LARRY: Yeah; yeah. Well and again, as we come back, we’re going to talk about how you can actually operate in the prophetic – you can hear God. And at the end of the day, you need to hear what God is saying, so that when you see someone, and you are getting a prophetic word, you can actually bring your words into agreement with God’s, call out their destiny; and then when you receive a prophetic word, you can actually know whether it’s, whether it’s the flesh, or maybe it’s even some devil trying to give you a word. So don’t go away. When you come back, we’re going to answer all these questions [music] and more.
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