All five ministry gifts are equally important. We need the apostle. He is a spiritual father, architect and builder. We need the soul winning evangelist that reminds us of reaching the lost. We need the pastor who counsels, nurtures and comforts and the teacher to instruct, tutor and explain God’s Word and ways. And we need the prophet, God’s voice of edification, exhortation and comfort. All five ascension gifts have decided graces on their lives that add something clear-cut to the born again believer.

LOGOS TO RHEMA
Prophets are gifted with living (rhema) Word to the Church. Your bible is full of words known as logos, the written Word. Have you ever read your bible and suddenly the words sprang to life and you received a revelation of what you just read? That is an example of the Word, logos, changing into rhema, or life-giving Word. That’s what we call spiritual revelation. Prophets flow in revelation or rhema.

“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.” (Revelation 2:29)

We need to listen to what the Holy Spirit is saying to the Church, not just what the Spirit hath said. We need the freshness of prophetic revelation, that life-giving rhema that comes through the prophet’s gift. Without that refreshing we die a boring religious death and are not spiritually relatable to our generation. We all need the prophetic voice to come into the earth that we might have a “living Word” imparted into our lives. Without the life provided by the prophetic voice, the Church would be like the dry bones in Ezekiel’s vision.

God wants to raise a prophetic people who are able to hear His voice clearly. Not just lone prophets, but a prophetic people. It is important the world hears the Word of the Lord with power and refreshing that comes from the prophetic anointing. We need a prophetic people who have been delivered from the “fear of men” and who are not “men pleasers.”

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THIIS IS THE "RIGHT NOW" HEART, MOVE ND IMMINENT MOVE OF GOD, AS HE ASSEMBLES THOSE RANKS, FILES, AND COMPANIES OF "MICIAHS" AND "NATHANS" WHO WILL PROPHESY AS THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD COMMANDS, NOT TO ACCOMODATE ITCHING EARS OR ARROGANT AND PRESUMPTOUS MEN. AS SEASONS, INEVITABLY CHANGE AND A NEW SUN (ILLUMINATION) ARISES OVER THE HORIZON TO DO "DAMAGE CONTROL" AND TO CORRECT THE PROPHETIC FAILURES, ERRORS, AND MISREPRESENTAIONS OF YESTERDAY'S SENSATIONALISM AND ASSORTED "POMP AND CIRICUMSTANCE" EVIDNECED BY THE FORMER"REIGN" OF PROPHETIC "VOICES" AND PROPHETIC PROPHETIC "MANTLES", THERE WILL BE A LATERAL TRANSFER OF PROPHETIC DESTINY, AUTHORITY, FAVOR AND REALMS OF INFLUENCE. BECAUSE MEN ACROSS THE FACE OF THE EARTH, HAVE BECOME DESENSITIZED TO THE FACT THAT WE SERVEOF A GOD OF WRATH, AS WELL AS ONE OF MERCIES THAT ARE BRAND NEW EVERY DAY, AND HAVE ABANDONDED A GODLY FEAR AND REVERENCE FOR HIS GIFTINGS,PRESENCE AND COMMANDS, A NECESSARY TIME OF "SACK CLOTH AND ASHES" FOR THE JUDGEMENT, WHICH HAS BEEN IREVOKABLY SET, AND THE CHASTISEMENT WHICH HAS TARRIED IS ALREADY DESCENDING UPON THE EARTH FOR THOSE WHO BEAR THE WISDOM OF THE CHILDREN OF ISAACHAR AND ARE ABLE TO DISCERN THE TIMES, BEGINNING IN THE HOUSE-HOLD OF FAITH. SO MUCH DISHONOR,SLANDER AND REPROACH HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON THIS PRSENT APOSTOLIC/PROPHETIC REGIME, THAT IT APPEARS THE MOMENTUM HAS HALTED, WHEN ACTUALLY IT HAS BEEN PLACED ON "PAUSE,AS THE LORD SWEEPS THROUGH OUR RANKS PLUCKING UP, ROOTING OUT, AND PURGING OUT ALL DISHONORABLE MOTIVES, VANITY, ARROGANCE, GREED, ABUSE AND MERCHANDISING OF GOD'S PEOPLE AND HIS GIFTS, SO THAT WE MAY BE PRESENTED FAULTLESS AND UNBLAMABLE WHEN WE STAND BEFORE THE MULTITUDES, AND WHEN WE STAND BEFORE HIM. IT IS NECESSARY THAT A TIME OF "SELAH" SHOULD COME UPON US, LEST WE FOLLOW THE SAME PATH OF DESTRUCTION AND HAVOC AS OUR PREDECESSORS. THIS REGIME OF PROPHETIC UTTERERS AND STANDARD BEARERS IS ALREADY UNDERGOING PURIFICATION AND SIFTING, AND RECEIVING A GREATER MEASURE OF SHARPNESS,DETERMINATION, AND HAVING A SNGLE-EYED VISION CONSERNING THE MATTERS OF THE KINGDOM. OUR FORMER RANKS WERE DISTRACTED BY WEALTH AND FAME AND THEY FELL TO THE SEDUCTION OF FLATTERY , PRESTIGEAND THE ALLURE OF MEGA BUCKS, WHILE LOSING SIGHT OF THE MANDATE AND ALL THAT THE LORD REQURES AND EXPECTS FROM HIS SERANTS, THE PROPHETS. AS WE LABOR APOSTOLICALLY, ALONGSIDE THE APOSTLES WE MUST PERFORM A WORK OF LEVELING THESE WHO STAND UPON THE THRESH-HOLD OF DESTINY NOW WON'T BE IN BONDAGE TO AN HONORARIUM OR LOVE OFFERING OR THE FEAR OF RISKING A RETURN ENGAGEMENT, AND COMPROMISE THE WORD OR THE INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE LORD. THESE HAVE BEEN PROVEN IN THE VARIOUS VALLIES, WILDERNESS AND ARID DESERT SEASONS, AND THEY'VE FACED THE LIONS, TIGERS, AND THE BEARS, AND HAVE LEARNED OBEDIENCE BYT THE THINGS THEY HAVE SUFFERED. THESE ARE MOTIVATED AND INSPIRED BY THE URGENCY OF THE THIS MOMENT AND HAVE NO TIME TO BE POLITICALLY CORRECT, SAVVY, OR ACCOMODATING. THE REMAINDER OF LAST SEASON'S RUBBLE AND DEBRIS OF FALSE DOCTRINE,DOCTRINAL ERROR AND THE "PRIVATE" INTERPRETAION OF THE LOGOS, AND THE MANIPULATION OF THE SCRIPTURES THAT WOULD BRING FINANCIAL GAIN SHALL BE FLTERED OUT AND REPLACED BY THE RIGHTLY DIVIDED WORD OF TRUTH.. THIS PRESENT REGIMEN HAS ALREADY BEEN PROVEN IN THE FURNACE, AND THEY HAVE ENDURED PAINFUL PERSECUTION, ACCUSATIONS, DISRESPECT AND UNDERMINING, AND IT SHALL WORK TO THE GOOD, BECAUSE, IF WE HAVE HAD THE WISDOM TO ALLOW IT,WE WOULD SEE THAT IT HAS SO POSITIONED US , THAT WE HAVE NO FEAR OF OPINIONS, REJECTION, OR THE GNASHING OF THE TEETH OF OUR ADVERSARY. THE LATTER DAY RAIN WORD THAT THE LORD HAS SEARED UPON THE LIPS OF HIS SERVANTS SHALL BE ONE OF TRUTHS THAT HAVE BEEN BURIED UNDER ALL THE IRRELEVANT PROMOTION OF UNSTABLE AND UNROOTED PROMISES OF SHACKS AND CADILLACS AND MYSTICAL "POWER". WE HAVE OBSERVED A RANK OF ORACLE BEARERS WHO MINIMIZED THE WORD, AND JESUS, THE CHRIST, AS THEY MAXIMIZED THEIR OWN CONVENIENT DOCTRINE AND SPEECH, AS THEY SET ABOUT TO CONSTRUCT THEIR OWN EMPIRES ON THE BACKS OF GOD'S PEOPLE. MEN HAVE ELEVATED MERE MEN TO POSITIONS OF IDOLATRY, SUPREMACY AND DEPENDENCY, AND THE LORD, INDEED, IS IN ASTATE OF INDIGNATION AND FURY. THE PROPHETIC UNIFIED VOICE THAT EXHORTS TO RETURN MEN TO ASSEMBLING AROUND AND, TO DRINKING FROM THE WELLSPRINGS OF SALVATION, TO THE SAVING AND REDEMPTION OF THEIR SOULS, IS ABOUT TO ARISE FROM THE ASHES, FROM THEIR STORMS, ABUNDANT PERILS AND SEASONS OF GREAT LOSS AND ABASEMENT, FROM THEIR "CAVES" AND SPIRITUAL ASSIGNMENTS, AND SHALL BLOW THE TRUMPET IN ZION AND SOUND THE CLARION CRY.. UP UNTIL NOW, THE EARS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD WERE HEAVYWITH THE FUTILE PROMISES OF CORRUPTIBLE MATTER, AND TEMPORAL "BLESSINGS", AND THEY WERE NOT OF A MIND TO HEAR THE UNADULTERATED GOSPEL THAT WAS FILLED WITH GUARANTEES OF THE REAL "RICHES UNTOLD", BUT NOW IN THE MIDST OF WHAT APPEARS TO BE, IMMIENT DESTRUCTION AND THE OVERWHELMING LOSS OF ALL THAT HAS BEEN ACCUMULATED IN THEIR LIFE TIMES, THE BEGINNING OF A GREAT MOANING, AND LAMENTATION, AND CRIES FOR HELP AND DELIVERANCE CAN BE HEARD. THIS DEVESTATION HAS PUT GOD BACK ON THE MINDS AND IN THE HEARTS, OF EVEN THE BACKSLIDDEN, AND NOW, THEY STAND READY TO RECEIVE AND TO SUBMIT TO THE RULE OF THE KING OF KINGS. NOW, SHALL THOSE "HOUSES' THAT REJECTED, DENOUNCED, AND CAST OUT THOSE BEARING THE VOICE OF THE LORD, IN THEIR TIMES OF PLENTY, SHALL SEEK THEM OUT IN HUMILITY AND REPENTANCE,BECAUSE EVERY DIVINE UTTERANCE THAT WAS CAST DOWN AND REJECTED SHALL RESURFACE TO THEIR MEMORIES, AND THEY SHALL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO SUBBMIT, AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT WAS/IS THE LORD, INDEED AND THAT HE IS WITH HIS SERVANTS, THE PROPHETS, IN AN UNUSUAL WAY.. WE HAVE MOVED UNDER THE GLORY OF THE "DEW' (GENTLE REFRESHING) IN TIMES PAST, BUT NOW WE SHALL SEE THE ULTIMATE PRECIPITATION OF THIS LATTER RAIN OF REVEALED TRUTH, NEW WINE, GREATER SUBSTANCE, AND AN UNYIELDING POSTURE OF BEING BOUND TO THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD, IN IT'S FULNESS. NOW, WE MAY BE PRESENTED BEFORE THE PEOPLE OF GOD, LIFTING UP HOLY HANDS WITHOUT WRATH OR DOUBTING, AND DESIRING OR SEEKING NOITHING FROM THEN BUT THAT THEY BE STRENGTHENED AND LIBERATED,AND THE GLORY CLOUD SHALL PROCEED US, AND THE LORD SHALL GO BEFORE US, AS AN ALL CONSUMING FIRE, DESTROYING EVERY HINDERANCE AND EVERY STUMBLING BLOCK THAT IS SET BEFORE US. ANOTHER WAVE OF REVEALED KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING CHRIST'S KINGDOM IS ALREADY BEING RELEASED AND MEN FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE, ARE GRAVITATING TOWARDS IT,AS THEY HUNGER FOR SOMETHING THAT THEY CAN BE ANCHORED IN, AND FIND NEW REASONS TO KEEP LIVING. EXTREME ARROGANCE AND PRIDE HAS INFILTRATED AND DISTORTED THE TRUTHS THAT WE HAVE LONG HELD ON TO, IN ORDER TO JUSTIFY SIN AND GREED, BUT ALL HERESY AND PERVERTED WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING SHALL BE EXPELLED, AND EVERY FAMILIAR SPIRIT, DIVINATION, AND WITCHCRAFT SHALL BE CONSUMED BY THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD. 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THE "VOICE" HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE, SINCE THE WORD EXISTED, IN THE BEGINNING, BUT NOW THOSE VESSELS PROCESSED AN CONDITIONED TO BEAR RECORD OF AND TO DEMONSTRATE CHRIST, AND HIS KINGDOM STANDS READY TO ADVANCE., STORM THE GATES OF HELL, AND SEE HIS KINGDOM COME ON EART,EVEN AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.
Prophetess,

You are right on target. The Lord is speaking through you in a Rhema manner.

Apostle Howard
Bishop, this is an awesome teaching; as you know every time we speak I get something fresh and now that I'm reading your teachings you're on the mark my brother. Continue to allow God to speak to your heart.

Blessings Upon You.

Randy Scott

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