{"id":18976,"date":"2015-04-03T22:09:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T04:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=18976"},"modified":"2017-04-17T21:58:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T01:58:42","slug":"silencing-the-prophets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/silencing-the-prophets\/","title":{"rendered":"Silencing the Prophets","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

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In memory of the prophetic witness
of the Christian martyrs of 2015<\/em><\/p>\n

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THERE <\/strong>is a strange cloud over the Church, especially in the Western world\u2014one that is sapping the life and fruitfulness of the Body of Christ. And it is this: the inability to hear, recognize, or discern the prophetic <\/em>voice of the Holy Spirit. As such, many are crucifying and sealing the “word of God” in the tomb all over again.<\/p>\n

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I feel strongly that the following needs to be said, for I believe the Lord is going to speak more prophetically to the Church in the days ahead. But will we be listening?<\/p>\n

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TRUE PROPHECY<\/p>\n

Much of the Church has lost sight of what true prophecy or the “prophetic” is. People today tend to label “prophets” as those who either exercise a kind of divinized fortune telling, or those who shout down the authorities\u2014a kind of “John-the-Baptist-brood-of-vipers” dialect. [1]<\/sup><\/a>cf. Matt 3:7<\/span><\/span>