John Loren Sandford - Elijah Among Us

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Unfortunately, many times what God intends when He speaks through His prophets is aborted because His people do not respond in faith and obedience. Sometimes God’s first and best will is not done because we interfere. If His will were always done, our Lord would not have commanded us to pray, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
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Whenever God promised something good is coming, duck! God is most likely going to humble and prepare your heart first. Sometimes prophetic blessings do not come because we fail to pray consistently until the blessing comes to pass. [regarding Dan 10] Don't leave your “angel” stuck halfway. Pray your prophesied blessings all the way to fruition.
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Job 31:32 “The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveler.”

More verses on Hospitality:
  • Matt 10:41 - receive a prophet, get a prophet’s reward
  • Gal 6:7 - sow & reap
  • Matt 6:9-10 - lay up treasures in heaven [via good deeds?]
  • Luke 24:28-29 - Emmaus road “constrained”
  • Heb 13:2 - entertained angels unawares
  • Gen 18 - Abe entertained God
  • 2 Same 6:11 - Obed-Edom hosted the ark
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The people knew this principle and prayed that a holy man might come and stay with them.
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This is also why Jesus sent His disciples out without provisions and extra clothing (Matt 10:9-10, Luke 10:5-7)

2 Kings 4:10 - The Shunamite woman who made a room for Elisha

Job 31:16,17,19-22,32
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Sirach 2:1 “My child, when you come to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for testing..”
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[Story of Gladys, healed of lung cancer] But the people were not glad she had been healed! This would mean that God was real and that all of their sins were upon them.
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Bill Hamon, Prophets: Pitfalls and Principles:
The line between pronouncing God's genuine prophetic judgments and ministering out of a wounded heart or spirit of rejections is a thin one.

[Judgment] is an area most susceptible to presumption and carnal judgments rather than the purity of the Holy Spirit.
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When a sheep does not walk closely enough, the shepherd breaks its leg.
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Many students of prophecy believe they know how to decipher verses about the end times. They know what “seventy weeks” means, for example, and have charted history in clever timetables that seem to “fit”...

These studies walk close to divination because they try to see what God has kept hidden.
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The Lord said to me, “John, before I came the first time, all the biblical scholars thought they knew who I would be and what I would do, and they were all wrong.”
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Do not make your prophecies happen... wait for the Lord to engineer His own answers — do not try to make your prophecy come true.
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Very seldom have I received any revelation from the Holy Spirit that was not connected to some immediate need while serving Him.
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The secret of abounding or suffering is found in losing your life for Him, until you literally do not care what people thing about you.

All your security is vested then in His love for you, and ambition withers and dies like a plant that no longer finds nurture.
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Numbers 12 - Five Ways God Speaks to Prophets (in order from least clarity to most):
  • Dreams
  • Visions
  • Dark Speech
  • Mouth-to-mouth Directly
  • Aloud
Three Levels of Visions:
  • Only imagination seems involved
  • Imagination plus cognizance of the Holy Spirit’s involvement
  • Physically-opened eyes like Stephen
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You have no authority unless you are under it.
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When the Lord makes a list, He normally begins with the most extreme. For example, in a list of negatives, He names the worst first.
Recommended Reading
Bill Hamon - Prophet's Personal Words
Ernest Gentile - Your Sons and Daughters Shall Prophesy
Michael Sedler - Stop the Runaway Conversation
John Paul Jackson - The Veiled Ploy
Positive Results of Troubles and Trials
  • 1 Peter 1:6-9
  • Romans 5:1-5
  • James 1:2-3
We retain:
10% of what we hear once
40% of what we hear twice
60% of what we hear three times
50% of what we see
80% of what is acted out

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