Practicing the Power by Sam Storms

Author:Sam Storms [Storms, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2016-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

Avoid Making Public Predictions

Be careful about prophesying public, political, or natural disasters. Notice that I said, “Be careful.” I would not go so far as to say that this form of prophetic utterance is altogether illegitimate or out of bounds. Predictive prophecy does exist, and sometimes God will use it for the benefit of his people (see Acts 11:27–30 and the predictive prophecy by Agabus of an impending famine). Could God conceivably use you or someone in your church to make known in advance some event of great impact and social significance? Yes. But in my experience this type of prophecy is rare and is not the typical expression of the prophetic gift that we find in the New Testament church.

Why do I suggest caution about these types of predictive prophecies? Because you need to be prepared to be proven wrong. All it takes is for your prediction to fail to come to pass to demonstrate that you did not hear from God. So how should we respond when someone prophesies some public, political, or natural disaster? Simply wait and see if it happens! That being said, I should point out that it doesn’t take a spiritual gift to predict that California (and now my own home state of Oklahoma) will soon experience a substantially severe earthquake. Anyone who pays attention to current events can prophesy that a terrorist attack in the Middle East (or even in America) is soon to happen.

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