CALLED FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS
We are living in an unprecedented time in the body of Christ. Amid the wars and rumors of wars that Jesus spoke of we are the hearing words of false prophets and we need to discern between the genuine prophetic word and the counterfeit. Those false prophetic words seem so very real at the time unless we are hearing from the Lord through the discerning of spirits. This gift protects us from deception. We are living in the last days. and need our senses exercised to discern between good and evil. The more we operate in this gift the more it will be honed sharp in our lives. The counterfeit and the true prophetic word can seem real especially when it is a word concerning some future event. So...what do we do? Do we throw the baby out with the bathwater.
There is the genuine prophetic word. Let us go back to the Word of God and see what we are told. We are told that in the last days there would be false prophets. We are also told that they would appear genuine so that if possible even the elect could be fooled. The elect is you and me. Yes, we need to guard against being fooled. We need to take a Word and if we have even a small sense of being unsure about its validity then put it on the back burner and wait. In the multitude of counselors there is safety. We need to hear the Lord on our own and corporately in the body of Christ. God is never in a hurry and usually when we are in a hurry we miss it. Yes, we are all learning daily and this is a learning process. The sad part is the worry and fear that false prophetic words cause to the body of Christ. It is being used to cause doubt and fear and then the genuine word from the Lord is doubted. We can become desensitized. Brothers and sisters there is the genuine prophetic word! We are told not to judge the person giving the Word but are to judge every prophetic word. We need to be vigilant because the enemy is walking about seeking whom he may devour. Take time with the Father so that we might discern between the two. I would venture to say that we all need more time at the feet of the Father so that we might hear from Him more clearly. Let us press into Him and put aside all that is distracting us from hearing more clearly. Let us hear Him. Sometimes we need to stop reading all that is out there for a season and hear Him. Let us pray that the Lord sharpen the discerning of spirits in us today.
4And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
6And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
10And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
11And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
14And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
15When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
16Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
17Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
18Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
19And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
20But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
21For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
23Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Matthew 24:4-24
