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Prophets not only exist, they live and minister among us.

From the time of ancient history, prophets have always been with us as fore-tellers, revealing God’s plan, and as forth-tellers, prophesying events and ushering them in. Prophets encourage the Church and bring hope.

They are the voice of God and, as such, bring direction to the faithful.

Many believe that today there are no more prophets; that they all died off at the close of either the Old Testament or the New Testament period. The Bible proves that this simply is not true. The five-fold ministry, made up of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, is inherent in Christianity and must be recognized and respected if the Church is to survive.

Too many churches that “seem” to succeed, without the prophetic word, are those that are on the verge of being worldly churches. They are focused on people, money, programs, and power, and engage their followers in “guilt tithing.” They do very little for the Church at large and are actually a hindrance to the ministry of Jesus Christ.

If today’s churches would follow the doctrines of the Bible, stop trying to please man, and stop making up silly traditions for the church to follow, they would see, do, and experience the things that the saints of old saw, did, and experienced.

God is constantly talking to us, but will we listen? Enter the gift of prophecy and the ministry of the Prophet.

In Exodus 7:1, God declared to Moses that Aaron would be his

“prophet.” Moses was to go up against Pharaoh for the purpose of

freeing the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. God had done this so

that Pharaoh would surely know that He is the all knowing, all

powerful God and is not mocked. Moses was to be “as God” to

Pharaoh and Aaron was to tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go.

As we know from the story, it took many plagues and bizarre

happenings to finally convince Pharaoh to let the people go, finally

culminating with the eventual death of Pharaoh and his men in the

Red Sea at the hand of God through Moses. Every one of Pharaoh’s

soldiers died when the water returned to normal in the river. Moses

and the Israelites were safe on the other side.