Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

A prophet is always called to a specific people and locale. No prophet apart from Jesus has a universal ministry. In giving gifts to his church Jesus clearly sets out the gifts to the body in order to establish a fully functioning church. The apostle plants and establishes the ministry while the prophets confirms the spiritual direction and keeps the fellowship in the touch with the original plan of God. Prophets were placed in strategic positions since it is in these specific locations that satan weaves his spirit if deception to cause confusion and derail God’s plan for that locality or region. Prophets who were placed in ‘high places’ were placed there to give direction and correction to the kings they ministered to. People like Isaiah who was placed in the palace of kings to speak the word of God to them, whereas Amos was placed among the ordinary people to speak directly to them. Neither of these propjets was more important than the other, they had a job to do and had to do it to the best of their ability. Whenever God places you in an area and gives you the prophetic anointing it is for a particular purpose with a desired outcome in the long run. The whole intention of God is to restore his order that was destroyed because of the sin of disobedience. The apostle Paul says this; “for since death came through one man, the resurrection of the dead has also come through one man. For as all die in Adam, so all will be made alive in Christ”, (1cor 15:21-22). Disobedience brought the curse of death to humanity. Adam had a prophetic mandate and was enticed away from it by the lure of food. Similarly the prophets of the Lord were lured away from speaking the word from the Lord by eating at Jezebel’s table. Today prophets are being lured away by satan appealing to their egos. Let all who are called to speak the word from God to a particular area do so with humility and without compromise, in spite of the table you have been invited to sit around. Read Jonah 1