#OnSoulishProphecies

I’d like to address a very subtle—but common—error in the prophetic: the tendency to release a soulish prophecy where there should have been prayer and petition.

This commonly happens when we feel pressured to prophesy, or when we have a personal connection to the recipient and want to see God move on their behalf.

Instead of praying and petitioning God on behalf of the recipient, our emotions get the best of us, and we begin to prophetically release our own desires, opinions, or imaginations—or what we believe the recipient desires to happen—as though it were a word from the Lord.

This is dangerous. Jeremiah 23:16 warns against those who operate in this way:

“Do not listen to the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.”

While most prophetic vessels mean well when they fall into this error, soulish prophecy can even become a form of witchcraft when a person seeks to manipulate, control, or influence others with a prophetic word rooted in their own will rather than God’s.

We must be careful not to step into our own will while claiming it is the Lord’s will.

To avoid this tendency, I personally try to make it a practice to simply pray for the Lord’s will to be done, or I “pass the mic” to another prophet or prophetic person when I know too much about the recipient.

I have no desire—or pressure—to perform, and this helps keep both myself and the recipient safe.

IT’S OKAY TO JUST PRAY—IT WORKS!

1 John 5:14 “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.”

Soulish prophecies have left many people in a state of confusion and disappointment because they believed and acted on something that was never God’s will—especially when it came from a trusted prophetic vessel, making it even more difficult to discern what is of God and what is not.

Prophets and prophetic people, we must remain mindful of this temptation. We will be held accountable for how we steward and speak on behalf of the Lord.

Sometimes the most prophetic thing we can do isn’t speak—it is pray.

-Lakeshia Momon