My apologies to my friends and members of “Learning to Prophesy” Ministry for not uploading on time the notes corresponding to the “BECOMING A SEER SEMINAR”. Today I’m uploading notes corresponding to the first meeting, August 21.

1. Becoming a Seer
Training
your
Spiritual
Vision

2. Learning to Prophesy Ministry
Marco Lafebre.
August 21, 2014

3. Elijah as a model of Seer

4. When there is no word of God :
 There is lack of spiritual knowledge.
 Bondages are laid upon people keeping them in
chains.
 An spiritual exile takes place, as you are banished
from the land where your blessings and inheritance
are, and you become an alien in areas out of your
promised land.
 People don’t care about moral principles.
 People just simple forget God’s Word.
 They live their own lives as if indeed they were the
owners of their lives.

5. When leaders are not Godly:
 Evil people get out of boundaries.
 God’s commandments have no effect.
 An atmosphere without law is rampant.
 An evil vision brings poverty.
 God’s vision brings prosperity.
 In times like these, the Lord communicates to His
Prophets and Seers revelation of His purposes.

6. The Prophet Elijah
 Elijah means “Yahweh is my God.”
 He lived in a time of:
 Witchcraft, spiritual darkness, sexual perversity.
 There was a lack of God’s Word, famine.
 Jezebel was reigning with intimidation and fear.
 She trained prophets.
 She had 450 Baal’s prophets.

7. God uses Elijah
to speak out His Word
 God uses Elijah to send His Word into this
famine of God’s word.
 After delivering the Word of God, he went
through an intense training
 His training consisted to:
 Overcome strong emotional changes.
 Geographical changes.
 All the circumstances that Elijah went
through, helped him to become “A VOICE”,
not an echo or just a sound.

8. A voice
 A voice utters words, phrases, ideas, plans
and has full understanding of what is
saying.
 Becoming a voice of God implies that you
are delegated to speak in His name.
 An echo is a repetition of a voice, has no
full knowledge of what is saying, and
eventually will deteriorate and disappear.
 A sound is simply a noise, at moments
can be very disturbing.

9. 1 Kings 17 (NKJV)
Elijah Proclaims a Drought
17 And Elijah the Tishbite, of the
inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab,
“As the LORD God of Israel lives,
before whom I stand, there shall
not be dew nor rain these years,
except at my word.”

10. Elijah comes into scene
 Elijah comes and confronts King Ahab.
 He declares a drought that will end up only at his Word.
 Elijah, doesn’t fix his eyes in the natural seeing King Ahab
standing in front of him, but he boldly declares that he
stands before the God of Israel. He choses to look and
declare the supernatural.
 God knows that His voice (Elijah) needs some training to
master the handling of God’s power, the presence and
authority of God, so he can be able to confront defeat and
destroy the power of Jezebel’s witchcraft.
 So God commands his steps.
 All Elijah’s struggles helped him to be equipped and gave
him security that the calling, the anointing, the authority
and the mantle that God has put upon him, was his best
and only source of strength to defeat the evil power of
Jezebel.

11. Today as in Elijah times…
 There is a famine of God’s Word.
 Reading of the Bible, prayer in public places, naming
God’s name is banned; and those who defy this ungodly
laws are facing opposition and its consequences .
 The Godly concept of family and marriage is
downtrodden
 But God is releasing His Prophetic Word through those
who as Elijah, are willing to isolated themselves with
God to be able to listen what God has to say.
 God wants to train His people.
 He needs more Seers that can be able to see and hear
His voice and be willing to deliver it unto others.

12. 1 Kings 17:2-4 (NKJV)
2 Then the word of the LORD came to
him, saying, 3 “Get away from here
and turn eastward, and hide by the
Brook Cherith, which flows into the
Jordan. 4 And it will be that you shall
drink from the brook, and I have
commanded the ravens to feed you
there.”

13. From Samaria to the
Brook Cherith
One of the first
things that God
will do when He
is preparing us
for a task is
separate us from
the eyes of
people, in a way
He captures you
for his own. He is
jealous and
wants your full
attention.

14. Elijah trained to
depend on the Lord.
Depending on
the Lord for his
sustenance ,
The natural and
supernatural
meet here as
part of his
training to
learn how to
rely on God.

15. After confronting King Ahab
 God orders Elijah to go to the east of the Jordan
River and hide himself close to the Brook Cherith.
 This hiding is not of fear, but God separates Elijah
from the eyes of the world.
 Elijah is isolated in this place with God.
 Cherith is a place of:
 Circumcision, test, where you put off the flesh.
 In this place Elijah is delivered and transformed,
his fears and the old life died here.
 This is necessary in order to be able to move in the
Spirit.

16. Trusting in God’s provision
 Here Elijah learned to depend on God, both, in the
natural, and in the supernatural provision for his
sustenance.
 The brook was a natural provision for his thirst.
 The ravens acting against their natural instinct
where supernaturally ordered by God to feed
Elijah.
 At the same time, all his religious ideas were
challenged in this place, his mind was been
transformed as he was leaning on the Lord.

17. Cherith’s provision
lasted just for a time.
 Famine and drought bring both spiritual and material
change, poverty and death.
 The brook that calmed Elijah’s thirst dried up.
 The ravens stop bringing the daily food.
 When we speak the Word of God, it will affect not
just others, but we will feel its effect as well. Our
environment will change!
 By Elijah’s command there was no rain, consequently
the brook eventually dried up.

18. 1 Kings 17:8-10 (NKJV)
 Elijah and the Widow of Sarepta
 8 Then the word of the LORD came to him,
saying, 9 “Arise, go to Zarephath, which
belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. See, I
have commanded a widow there to
provide for you.” 10 So he arose and went
to Zarephath. And when he came to the
gate of the city, indeed a widow was
there gathering sticks. And he called to
her and said, “Please bring me a little
water in a cup, that I may drink.”

19. From Cherith to
Zarephath
Changing from a
physical location
to another,
brings us as well
to a different
spiritual
atmosphere.
Elijah now
depends more on
the Lord, so now
his training is of
a different type.

20. Elijah’s Warfare
training
Zarephath becomes
the place of warfare
training. Here Elijah
learns to exercise his
God’s given authority
and confronts the
evil king and priest
Ethbaal who is
Jezebel's father.
Again, God separates
Elijah and sends him
to a foreign country
to depend on a poor
widow who will take
care of him.

21. Zarephath or Sarepta
 Zarephath= place of death, place of melting and
refining
 Doors= Authority, greater opportunities.
 Here Elijah learned to exercise his authority over
the enemy.
 Here Ethbaal, Jezebel’s father was king and priest.
 Ethbaal = with Baal, or for Baal.
 So there was an spiritual confrontation in the place
 The true God against an idol god.

22. Elijah carries the fire.
 The Sidonean widow, and her son are about to die
of hunger.
 She is collecting sticks for the fire.
 She is doing the work of a child, children don’t
carry fire; only the Father or mother will kindle the
fire.
 Elijah comes as the father of Israel, to be trained
how to call down fire upon the sacrifice.
 The widow’s sacrifice is accepted and kindled by
the fire of God that Elijah brings to her place.

23. Bring down the Fire of God.
 Elijah is trained to bring down the fire of God
to consume sacrifices that are acceptable to
Him.
 The faith of Elijah in God’s promise is shown
by his request of help to the widow.
 It’s followed by a declaration that prosperity
will come into her life after first helping him.
 God accepted their demonstration of faith and
prosperity was for the widow who in turn
helped Elijah.

24. 1 Kings 18:1-2 (NIV)
18 After a long time, in the third year,
the word of the LORD came to Elijah:
“Go and present yourself to Ahab, and
I will send rain on the land.” 2 So
Elijah went to present himself to Ahab.
Now the famine was severe in Samaria,

25. In Three years Elijah is
conformed into the image of
Christ.
 3 means “conform”. Rom 8:29b NKJV “predestined to
be conformed to the image of His Son.”
 In here, Elijah is being conformed in the three areas of
his being: Spirit, soul and body.
 Here he learns to obey, to imitate God, he is called to be
a copy of God.
 His spirit is enriched with the freedom of God’s Spirit.
 His mind is transformed so he may have God’s thoughts.
(1 Cor 2:16 “But we have the mind of Christ”)
 His emotions come under control.
 His will suffered change, isn’t there anymore, God’s is.

26. 1 Kings 18:7-8 (NKJV)
7 Now as Obadiah was on his way,
suddenly Elijah met him; and he
recognized him, and fell on his face,
and said, “Is that you, my lord
Elijah?”
8 And he answered him, “It is I. Go,
tell your master, ‘Elijah is
here.’”

27. Obadiah knows Elijah.
 Obadiah is afraid that when he returns with king
Ahab he would not be in the place, as he is
supposing the Lord could take Elijah to unknown
places as He has done it before.
 Elijah calm him down promising that he is
interested in meeting with Ahab.
 The time to confront and start the destruction of
Jezebel’s reign of witchcraft, terror and
manipulation has come.
 Elijah is eagerly following God’s instruction and
wants to confront King Ahab.
 Ahab wants to destroy Elijah, so they met.

28. 1 Kings 18:41-46 (NKJV)
 The Drought Ends
 41 Then Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and
drink; for there is the sound of abundance
of rain.” 42 So Ahab went up to eat and drink.
And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; then
he bowed down on the ground, and put his
face between his knees, 43 and said to his
servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.”
 So he went up and looked, and said, “There
is nothing.” And seven times he said, “Go
again.”

29. Elijah prays, his servant is
sent to look toward the sea.

30. Elijah heard from God:
I will send rain on the land.”
 He believes God, he visualizes the coming rain, he
earnestly prays for what he sees in the spirit to
come to pass in the physical; he sends his servant
to look towards the sea from where rain should
come.
 His servant comes with a negative report, he
cannot see what his master sees, apparently he
doesn’t really care too much about spiritual
things.
 Seven times Elijah had to send his servant until
finally he comes notifying a cloud in formation.

31. 7 = complete,
total, done.
• God wants us to
look intently into his
promises, so they
can become real for
our benefit.
• Piercing through the
natural will open the
door of the unseen,
of that what is to
come but is not
there yet
• We need to look and
look until the object
of our searching
comes in your vision
span.

32. 1 Kings 18:41-46 (NKJV)
 44 Then it came to pass the seventh time, that
he said, “There is a cloud, as small as a man’s
hand, rising out of the sea!” So he said, “Go up,
say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot, and go
down before the rain stops you.’”
 45 Now it happened in the meantime that the sky
became black with clouds and wind, and there
was a heavy rain. So Ahab rode away and went
to Jezreel. 46 Then the hand of the LORD came
upon Elijah; and he girded up his loins and ran
ahead of Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

33. 7 Means: Complete,
finished, all.
 Elijah persisted in prayer until his request to God was
completed, he knew his work was finished when his
servant informed of the cloud.
 Elijah doesn’t require more. He knows that God is on the
move and he decides to leave the place.
 But before doing that, as he cares for King Ahab, he
sends with his servant word that he needs to run away
before his chariot gets stuck in the coming mud.
 The Spirit of God comes upon him and outruns the king’s
chariot.

34. Elijah runs
for his life.
After killing
Baal's prophets,
Elijah ran from
the furious
Queen Jezebel.
He fled to
Beersheba, then
into the
wilderness, and
finally to Mount
Horeb (Sinai) ...

35. 1 Kings 19:3-4 (NKJV)
Elijah runs for his life
 3 And when he saw that, he arose and
ran for his life, and went to Beersheba,
which belongs to Judah, and left his
servant there.
 4 But he himself went a day’s journey into
the wilderness, and came and sat down
under a broom tree. And he prayed that
he might die, and said, “It is enough!
Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no
better than my fathers!”

36. Elijah under the broom tree
 Elijah allows fear to control him and runs
for his life.
 He goes with his servant and left him in
Beersheba. He goes alone to the
wilderness, he wants to find the Lord.
 Elijah tired and dejected seats to rest
under a broom tree, as a prophetic act
saying: I need my mind to be swept out,
to be dusted off.

37. 1 Kings 19:5-8 (NKJV)
 5 Then as he lay and slept under a broom
tree, suddenly an angel touched him, and
said to him, “Arise and eat.” 6 Then he
looked, and there by his head was a cake
baked on coals, and a jar of water. So he ate
and drank, and lay down again. 7 And the
angel of the LORD came back the second
time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and
eat, because the journey is too great for
you.” 8 So he arose, and ate and drank; and
he went in the strength of that food forty
days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the
mountain of God.

38. Angelic food and drink for Elijah

39. 40 Days and 40 Nights journey
 In here the forty days and forty nights journey is symbolic.
 40 means: Acceptable or unacceptable rule; dominion.
 Elijah spends 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness before
he reaches Mount Sinai.
 Moses spent 40 days and 40 nights on the mountain when he
was receiving the law.
 Our Lord spent 40 days and nights in the wilderness as a part
of His temptation.
 I believe the Lord was giving Elijah enough time to reflect and
have dominion over his fears and dejection, giving him time to
rule over these situation.

40. 1 Kings 19:9-10 (NKJV)
9 And there he went into a
cave, and spent the night in
that place; and behold, the
word of he LORD came to him,
and He said to him, “What are
you doing here, Elijah?”

41. 1 Kings 19:11-12 (NKJV)
 God’s Revelation to Elijah
 11 Then He said, “Go out, and stand on the
mountain before the LORD.” And behold, the
LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind
tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in
pieces before the LORD, but the LORD was not
in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake,
but the LORD was not in the earthquake;
12 and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord
was not in the fire; and after the fire a still
small voice.

43. 1 Kings 19:13 (NKJV)
13 So it was, when Elijah heard it,
that he wrapped his face in his
mantle and went out and stood in
the entrance of the cave. Suddenly
a voice came to him, and said,
“What are you doing here, Elijah?”

44. Elijah went
out of the
cave.
Elijah heard the
whisper.
Wraps his face
with his mantle.
Went out and
stood at the
entrance of the
cave.
Then he hears
the Voice of the
Lord.

45. 1 Kings 19:15-16 (NKJV)
15 Then the LORD said to him: “Go,
return on your way to the
Wilderness of Damascus; and when
you arrive, anoint Hazael as king
over Syria. 16 Also you shall anoint
Jehu the son of Nimshi as king over
Israel. And Elisha the son of
Shaphat of Abel Meholah you shall
anoint as prophet in your place.

46. God does not accept
sudden resignations
God requests Elijah to anoint two
Kings, and to
Anoint the Prophet that will replace
him.
God is interested in restoring his
prophet and He let him know that
he still has some work to do.

47. 1 Kings 19:18 (NKJV)
 18 Yet I have reserved seven
thousand in Israel, all whose knees
have not bowed to Baal, and every
mouth that has not kissed him.”

48. You are not alone.
 Elijah forgot that Obadiah told him that he has
hidden 100 Prophets, 50 each in two different
caves.
 He was not alone.
 The Lord informs him that He has reserved 7000 in
Israel.
 50 meaning the accepted ministry of this prophets.
 100 meaning fully accepted by God.
 7000 meaning mature judgment.

49. Elijah
returns
From Mount
Horeb to the
Wilderness of
Damascus.
Elijah has
some tasks
to do.

50.  In all this instances Elijah is visualizing things that are
about to come, before they would come into being.
 It was an introductory session to sensitize Elijah to later
found himself in the presence of the Lord in a total
different level.
 He was able to see his manifested power through the
wind, the earthquake and the fire.
 He was able to detect the very presence of God when he
heard the still small voice.
 He received direct orders from God about some task that
he had to do,

51.  Some Scholars believe that this cave was the same one
where Moses stood to see the Glory of God.
 Moses requested to see God’s Glory.
 God ordered Elijah to go out and stand before His
presence.
 Both of them Heard God’s voice
 Moses got revelation of God’s name and characteristic.
 Elijah received orders and revelation of future Kings to
reign and of whom would take his office.
 Both of them appeared with Jesus in the Mount of
Transfiguration.

52. Recommended Book
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This is an excellent book, I really encourage you to read it,
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53. Next Week
 We will meet again next Thursday and we will study the
early beginning of Prophet Elisha.