Throughout the Bible there are stories of God’s Holy Spirit manifesting to speak through people. To prophesy means to speak on behalf of God. Throughout scripture, prophetic words often reveal God’s purposes for the future – either to encourage or strengthen people to continue to trust God and have courage to follow him, knowing that he has good things in store for them, or to exhort people to change course so that they can avoid disaster or punishment from God.
Jesus himself demonstrated both of these aspects of prophecy – encouraging and exhorting people to repent and follow God with all their strength, trusting that God will lead them into good things, while at the same time warning people that, unless they change course, destruction is coming.
The apostle Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 14:3 that “he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men.”
This succinctly shows the nature of prophetic words – both encouragement and comfort as well as exhortation which can be an encouragement to stay strong and follow God, or an exhortation to change course because you are headed toward disaster and God wants you to repent and be blessed.
On this page, you will hear stories about prophetic words as God’s spirit manifests in historically and in people today.
Do you have stories of prophetic words from your own life? Please consider sharing them here to amplify the light of Christ in the world and draw people to him.