Some steps to increase in the prophetic gifting

1. PRACTICE DOESN’T MAKE PERFECT.
PERFECT PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT.
CALVIN EDWING RIPKEN Sr.
Session # 11
GROWING IN THE
PROPHETIC GIFTING

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“LEARNING TO PROPHESY”
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LEARNING TO PROPHESY

4. I pray that the Lord our God increases in
you His marvellous anointing and impart
to you all the revelatory gifting: Words of
knowledge, words of wisdom, prophetic
words, dreams and visions, discerning of
spirits and strengthen your conscience to
have a clearer intuition and greater and
wonderful fellowship with Him. I pray that
he may open your eyes to see the reality
of the spiritual realm when He pleases so
you could see His ministering angels and
rest assured that indeed what is stated in
2 Kings 6:16 is your portion. “Do not fear,
for those who are with us are more than
those who are with them.”
GOD IS GOOD AND
HIS LOVE ENDURES
FOR EVER.

5. • God’s desire is that everyone of His children be active in
the prophetic and revelatory gifting.
• WE HAVE His Hoy Spirit in us.
• We can do it.
PROPHETIC NUGGETS

6. • 29 Then Moses said to him, “Are you zealous for my
sake? Oh, that all the LORD’s people were
prophets and that the LORD would put His Spirit upon
them!”
• In the Old Testament times, not everyone could
prophesy.
• Why?
Numbers 11:29 (NKJV)

7. • God’s Supreme Revelation
• 1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time
past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days
spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all
things, through whom also He made the worlds;
• Various times and ways
• By the prophets,
• By His Son.
Hebrews 1:1-2 (NKJV)

8. • Prophetic night dreams.
• Open visions during the day.
• Audible voice.
• Angels messengers.
• Divine encounters with God.
• NO difference from nowadays.
God spoke in various ways:

9. • The previous passage is in no way cancelling the use of the
prophetic gifting in the NT Church, but rather encouraging us to
keep doing it.
• In these days he is speaking to us by His Son.
• His Son is the perfect Word of God, divinely reflected in the
Holy Scriptures.
• Remember: The spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus.
• Paul urges to the NT church to desire the prophetic gift

10. • 14 Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially
that you may prophesy. 2 For he who speaks in a
tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one
understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks
mysteries. 3 But he who prophesies speaks
edification and exhortation and comfort to men. 4 He
who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who
prophesies edifies the church.
1 Corinthians 14:1-4 (NKJV)

11. • 5 I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that
you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than
he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he
interprets, that the church may receive edification.
• Two times Paul encourages us to be bold enough to
desire this precious gift of the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 14:5 (NKJV)

12. • 24 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an
uninformed person comes in, he is convinced by all, he
is convicted by all. 25 And thus the secrets of his heart
are revealed; and so, falling down on his face, he will
worship God and report that God is truly among you.
• The main reason for prophesying is to demonstrate that God is
in the midst of His people.
1 Corinthians 14:24-25 (NKJV)

13. • John 14; fragments:
• Speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men.
• but he who prophesies edifies the church.
• he is convinced by all, he is convicted by all.
• And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed;
• falling down on his face, he will worship God
• and report that God is truly among you.
The main point of prophesying is to make
people see that God is in our midst

14. • For it is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ in us (John 14:18)
Who is the source of all prophecy and,
• The primary focus of the revelation He provides concerns
Jesus.
Work of the Holy Spirit

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Some ways in which
God spoke to His prophets
in the past and is still using
them today to speak with the
prophetic church.

16. • According to the teaching of the Bible the prophet is a
speaker of or for God.
• His words are not the production of his own spirit, but
come from a higher source.
• He has a twofold capacity of seen things in the natural
where anybody else can see them and of hearing things
which human ears do not ordinarily receive.
1. The Seer and Speaker of God:

17. • 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel
who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy from
their own inspiration, ‘Listen to the word of the LORD!
• There are persons who only claim to be prophets but who
prophesy "out of their own heart,"
Ezekiel 13:2 (NASB)

18. • The divine power, which comes over a human being and
compels him to see or to hear things which otherwise would be
hidden from him, is called inspiration.
2. PROPHETICAL INSPIRATION

19. • Prophetic dreams occurred many times in the bible, these were
given to prophets, kings both godly and ungodly and to all sort
of people.
• Some of those dreams may need interpretation as in the case
of King Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel in here clearly explains that all
interpretations belong to God.
• Others as in the case of King Abimelech, or in the case of
Joseph the husband of Mary didn’t need any interpretation.
3. Dreams:

20. • On the other hand, prophecy differs specifically from dreams,
first, because the genuine prophetical utterance is received
when the prophet is clearly conscious, and, secondly, because
such an utterance brings with it a much greater degree of
certainty and a greater guaranty of its higher origin than is done
even by a dream that seems to be prophetical.
Difference between dream and Prophecy

21. • Theophanies (visible manifestations of God; face-to-face
communication).
• Abraham met the preincarnate Christ and two angels near his
tent on the plain of Mamre (Genesis 18);
• Jacob wrestled with an "angel" at Peniel, only to discover "I
have seen God face to face" (Genesis 32:30);
• Moses spoke to the Lord in the mount "face to face, as a man
speaketh unto his friend" (Exodus 33:11).
4. THEOPHANIES

22. • Angels. Those "ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for
them who shall be heirs of salvation" (Hebrews 1:14) have often
come to mankind, to bring messages of hope and comfort
(Daniel 10:11, 12; Genesis 32:1),
• To direct the servants of the Lord to those whose hearts were
receptive to God's truth (Acts 8:26), or
• To warn of imminent disaster if God's word was not heeded
(Genesis 3:24).
5. ANGELS

23. • Audible voice of God.
• Sometimes God spoke on His own! At Sinai the Ten
Commandments were spoken audibly, jointly, by the Father and
the Son in a transcendent "duet" that literally caused the earth
(as well as the hearts of the human hearers) to tremble.
6. AUDIBLE VOICE OF GOD

24. • During the wanderings of the children of Israel in the desert, the
high priest's breastplate had two large stones imbedded at the
top--the Urim and the Thummim.
• The high priest could ask questions, and Jehovah would
respond. If the answer were "yes," one stone would glow with a
halo of light and glory; if the answer were "no," the opposite
stone would be partially obscured by a shadow or a vapor.
7. OPTICS OR VISUALS

25. • In Old Testament times God also communicated with His people
by means of casting lots.
• A modern counterpart is "drawing straws"--a number of straws
of different lengths are held in the hand, with all the ends
appearing to be even, the difference of length being hidden by
the hand. After the straws are drawn, and are compared, it is
easy to determine who drew the longest or the shortest.
8. CASTING LOTS

26. • "Open" visions of the day. The trancelike state into which a
prophet entered when going into vision has already been
referred to, and will be dealt with more fully below. Both the Old
and the New Testaments are replete with references to
prophets and apostles receiving visions from the Lord.
9. OPEN VISIONS

27. • Often the prophets would receive messages from the Lord in
the "night seasons" as well as during the day. There is no
evidence that physical phenomena accompanied the prophetic
night dreams, nor is there evidence that the kind of messages
given at night were in any way different from those transmitted
in the visions of the day.
10. PROPHETIC DREAMS OF THE NIGHT

28. • Effects of witchcraft.
• Misconception of the prophetic can keep you away of desiring
this gift.
• Have you seen the prophetic misused? Have you experienced
this?
• Why do you want to prophesy?
• What type of words have you received?
• What have you done with them?
Hindrances for your growth

29. • Ministry time:
• Prayer

30. • STEPS FOR PROPHESYING:
• REVELATION
• INSPIRATION
• COMMUNICATION

31. • Revelation and inspiration differ.
• Revelation is the supernatural communication of truth to the
mind;
• Inspiration secures to the teacher or writer infallibility in
communicating that truth to others. It renders its subject the
spokesman or prophet of God in such a sense that everything
he asserts to be true, whether fact or doctrine or moral principle,
is true, infallibly true.
REVELATION AND INSPIRATION

32. • An uncovering, a bringing to light of that which had been
previously wholly hidden or only obscurely seen.
• God has been pleased in various ways and at different times
(Heb. 1:1) to make a supernatural revelation of himself and his
purposes and plans, which, under the guidance of his Spirit, has
been committed to writing. (See WORD OF GOD.)
• The Scriptures are not merely the "record" of revelation; they
are the revelation itself in a written form, in order to the accurate
preservation and propagation of the truth.
• Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
REVELATION

33. • The divine power, which comes over a human being and
compels him to see or to hear things which otherwise would
be hidden from him, is called inspiration.
• The bible says that the Spirit of God has come over
someone; or has fallen upon him; or that the hand of
Yahweh has come over him and laid hold of him or that the
Holy Spirit has been put on him as a garment, or that the
Spirit of revelation has permanently descended upon him.
Prophetical Inspiration:

34. • But this inspiration is not such that suppresses the human
consciousness of the recipient, but rather the recipient is in
possession of his full consciousness, and is able afterward
to give a clear account of what happened.
• Nor is the individuality of the prophet eliminated by this
divine inspiration; unconsciously this individuality
cooperates in the formal shaping of that which has been
seen and heard.
2.2 Prophetical Inspiration:

35. • Keep your eyes open. Perceive the atmosphere.
• Look to the person that you are prophesying.
• Grab the thoughts or pictures coming to you even if they look
irrelevant. The Holy Spirit will guide you to use those thoughts.
• Don’t wait to have it all together, deliver what you have.
• If you have nothing to say, open your mouth and thank God for
the person receiving your word.
• After that you will notice the flow of the rivers of living waters
coming out of you.
Delivering the word

36. THE NATURAL STEPS FOR
GROWING IN THE
PROPHETIC

37. • Acts 2:38 (NASB)
• 38 Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in
the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and
you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
• The Holy spirit will gives us His Charismatic Gifts
FIRST OF ALL YOU NEED TO HAVE
THE HOLY SPIIRIT IN YOU.

38. • The Attraction of the Word of God.
• The prophecies in the Word of God will cause in us a desire to
know more about them. At This time the Holy Spirit will stir up in
us the gifting He has deposit in us.
• Philippians 2:13 (NKJV)
• 13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do
for His good pleasure.
1. THE INITIAL STEP

39. • 1 Corinthians 14:1
• 14 Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that
you may prophesy.
• Once we realize that God’s desire is that we may prophesy, we
start to investigate, participate in seminars and do all we can to
let this wonderful gift come out of us. Family members, friends,
small groups are the initial recipients of our prophetic
utterances.
2. DESIRING THE GIFT

40. • Romans 12:6 (NKJV)
• 6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given
to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion
to our faith;
• Now that we know that the anointing is on us for operating in
this gift we have the opportunity to join prophetic groups were
we can receive more training, be mentored and be able to use
our gift in a safe environment.
3. STEPPING ON FAITH

41. • 1 Timothy 4:14-15 (NKJV)
• 14 Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you
by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the
eldership. 15 Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to
them, that your progress may be evident to all.
• It’s a time of growth were you are used by the power of the Holy
Spirit and people will seek you to receive a word or an insight
from you. It’s a time of confidence in your gift and in the
anointing that the Holy Spirit has put in your ministry.
4. DEVELOPING THE GIFT

42. • John 6:44-45New King James Version (NKJV)
• 44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me
draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. 45 It is written
in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Therefore
everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to
Me.
• It comes a time when God removes our confidence in the gift,
We may face some trials, we may feel that the gifting has ended
but God is drawing us to depend in Him and not in the gift.
5. TIME OF DRIEDNESS

43. • John 5:19-20 (NKJV)
• 19 Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I
say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He
sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in
like manner. 20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all
things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater
works than these, that you may marvel.
• He wants us to have a close relationship with Him and minister
out of this relationship rather than from the gift.
6. MATURING IN THE GIFT

44. • Matthew 13:12 (NKJV)
• 12 For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have
abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will
be taken away from him.
• Now is time to impart on others what the Lord has invest in you.
You continue operating in the gift but you feel is time to become
a model to others, to pass to others what you have receive from
the Lord. Teaching, passing on by the laying on of hands,
encouraging, mentoring, forming new prophetic people.
7. EXPERIENCING THE FRUIT

45. • Next week analysis of a received prophetic word.
• Remember we start at 7 pm with a short time of worship in the
main sanctuary afterwards we go to our respective rooms.
• Our room is Overflow #3
• See you next Wednesday, God bless.