I have been under the proverbial weather since Tuesday of last week with a cold that has held onto my hubby since Christmas Day........I am determined that it will let me go... today!
Strange that in most of our Churches today no one speaks in tongues or gives prophesy.....thoughts to ponder. Are we missing out on the very words that God wants to speak to His Body today? How sad in such troubling times that we stifle the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
If each person brings to the meeting the special ability that God has given him or her, and if everything is done for edification, the church as a whole will benefit. As beneficial as prophesying is, Paul sought to limit the activity. Prophets were not to monopolize the limited amount of time the church members were together. Let the others judge indicates that no one, not even a person exercising a spiritual gift, is exempt from accountability to the church.
Revealed indicates that prophesying as described here is different from what we call preaching or reading from Scripture. The prophesying that Paul referred to is similar to OT prophecy in which God gives a revelation to one of His servants who, in turn, gives that revelation to God’s people.
1 Corinthians 14:26-33
26 How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. 27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret. 28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God. 29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge. 30 But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent. 31 For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged. 32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. 33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
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