In talks with my good friend David he told me that a critical spirit will masquerade as a prophet. I met a man who said he had been gifted with a prophetic gift. He was one of the prophets associated with my church.
We met a couple of days ago for a date and I was excited to meet a “man of God”. I was hoping he would be different than most men are.
He wasn’t. He was immoral like all of the rest and he spoke no words of wisdom at all to me that night.
The next day we talked on the phone and I revealed to him some revelations that God had given me about my writing career. He spoke evil motivations into those revelations and said I was writing for money.
I have never written for money but I intend to because writing is to be my occupation. My writing will have to support me in order to be my occupation. I can’t write very well if I am homeless, neither can I fulfill my financial responsibility as a single mother to my children.
Then he said I had a skill-I should go back to nursing. If he would have been in the same room as me I would have punched him.
Then he told me he was anointed to be a writer and sent me some writing of his. I refused to critique it because I did not want to be cruel but I saw no anointing.
He told me before he met me that he would not rip me apart. He lied. He not only spoke against me but spoke against God’s calling on my life and the passion that God has given me to reach others through my writing.
I am relieved that God has given me the discernment to spot a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
If I prophet does not encourage you to follow the will of God they are not from God.
If a prophet does not speak wisdom they are not God ordained.
If a prophet is not righteous in their behavior and actions they are not God fearing.
If a prophet tries to put you in subjection and rips you from your passion that God has called you to they are a control freak.
I only had one date with this man and that is all I needed to know that he was not a man of God and certainly not a prophet of God. There will not be a need for a second date.