Have you ever been Prophesied over Falsely??

[Gerald Creasy]

Have you ever been Prophesied over Falsely??

If so, how did you handle the person afterwards?

Or am I the only one?

[DeWayneTN]

Yes. Sometimes it's from someone whose heart is in the right place and they just totally miss it. And sometimes it has been from someone with less than honorable intentions.

[dolfan]

I don't know that I've been prophesied over. At least, the times where, in the throes of a good old shoutin' time service, a minister said something directly to me about me and my life (and, I'd call that prophesying, I suppose) they lacked the temerity to call themselves prophets for having done so.

I count twice. 1 was Mel Hyatt who told me in a prayer line that I had a pastor's heart. He didn't tell me I'd be a pastor. James Wallace told me I was giving up the calling, though. And, I don't argue with that one way or the other so much now. At any rate, I can't say it was false if it was, indeed, "prophesying", nor can I take credit for having made the most of what was said to me.

2 was T.L. Lowery, a man I'd never met except for during a week of revival services at First Assembly of God in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where we (my wife and I) were members from 1993-1994 while at the University of N. Alabama. This was the experience that broke the camel's back for me concerning pentecostalism, and I walked away from it. He did no harm to me nor did he do anything that was reckless or intentional. It was just the final event in a sequence of things that would've, sooner or later, brought me to that point anyway. It just happened that his statement while laying hands on me and pushing me to the floor that, "God has plans for you" was not particularly revealing nor meaningful nor was his physically guiding me to the floor to lay out (in the Spirit, but really "in the gravity" of being pushed and in the moment of not wanting to make a scene). Was it false? No, God has plans for us all. I don't know why me laying on the floor was part of it or even if it was part of it. I just know that whatever "it" was, I'd had pretty much enough.

[EagerBeaver]

Many times, in fact.

I've been told I was going to be:

- A pastor in my early 20's (I'm coming up on my 24th birthday)
- A traveling evangelist
- A youth pastor of a local COGOP church back in WA state
- a host of other stuff that is pretty much irrelevant

[DeWayneTN]

An older single friend told me that she was in the altar once and someone was praying for her, saying "God's going to bring him back home!" She had never married but this person assumed she was praying over a home situation.

[Dr. Ron]

Every time I have had a "private Prophetic" moment, it has been generally true.

Every time it has happened "in service" it has been as false as my mother's teeth.

There is a real and a false to everything. I do not allow "parking lot" prophecies here at this church....nor do I allow "in service" prophecies on a personal basis.

Shane Queener is one of my elders here. He has given "words" to the congregation about 3 times over the 10 years of our existance. He has always been right on the money. Anyone who knows Shane, can attest that for him to do that requires a move of God in his life that is undeniable.

Mostly if someone has a prophetic word here, I require them to give it to me first and the ministry team will judge it by the word to determine it's validity.

I would not allow the other kind. On one rare ocassion it did happen that a "prophetiss" told a member of the praise team that her voice would become greater than Sandy Patti and that she would have her own Lear Jet and perform for Kings and Queens.

I told her that she was responsible for that outburst and now she must become the manager of this great talent. She left the church. Good ridance.

False prophecy is not too hard to discern.......it's kinda based on the idea that "the spirit and the word agree"....amazingly simple.

[Pastor Bill]

I've had a few of the generic ones "God has a call on your life" type of things, and I've had some that really hit when I needed them and were vague but accurate.

I have had 2 different people prophesy about my first born child (one prior to pregnancy, and the other while Rose was VERY pregnant, both saying the child would be a girl. One of the people was a "friend" who was getting WAY off into some craziness, and we didn't take any stock in it from the beginning, the second was while visiting a church, I saw it coming, and knew it would be false. Rose and I had chosen NOT to find out the sex of the baby, so it didn't make sense (it brought no glory to God, and served no purpose for us) I didn't say anything at the time, but we remembered it and knew for sure when our SON was born. I've not been back to that church, and if I ever did I would probably have to say something to the pastor. I later was told that that "prophet" didn't really attend there much, but was a church-hopper and did that wherever she went.

[Penny]

I was about 14

I was prayed for once and told My hearing was healed, that I needed the faith to NOT wear my hearing aids to show God I believe he could healed me.

I did not wear my aids for a while, I could not hear a thing, and later was told it was MY faith that caused me not to be healed.

[dolfan]

I was about 14

I was prayed for once and told My hearing was healed, that I needed the faith to NOT wear my hearing aids to show God I believe he could healed me.

I did not wear my aids for a while, I could not hear a thing, and later was told it was MY faith that caused me not to be healed.

When I was a kid, I thought the phrase "faith healer" was "fake healer". Keep in mind I didn't grow up in church. But, I was right, wasn't I?

And, I'm glad you got God showed, one way or the other, since He didn't know what your faith was from, like, eternity and all.

[DaJudge]

My dad had a girl prophesy over him that they were going to get married. He told her that God would have to show him that in writing. They didn't get married.

[paul]

Almost every prophecy spoken into my life has come to pass. Possibly because I am very cautious as to what I preceive as Prophetic.

If the Words spoken over me, whethter they are words of encouragement spoken by well meaning but mis directed friends. Seperating what it Word of knowledge but not prophetic, when all these are set aside and not prophetic. I can honestly say that the majority have come to pass. Some are still on the shelf and we will see in time.

A Prophetic word spoken in the early days of our ministry was that we would have advance teams going before us and paving the way. Only a few years ago has this come to pass. so more are on the shelf and in God's timing I believe thay will also come topass.

Also I am very cafeful as to whom I allow to lay hands on me and to speak in my life propheticlly.

[Gerald Creasy]

Almost every prophecy spoken into my life has come to pass. Possibly because I am very cautious as to what I preceive as Prophetic.

If the Words spoken over me, whethter they are words of encouragement spoken by well meaning but mis directed friends. Seperating what it Word of knowledge but not prophetic, when all these are set aside and not prophetic. I can honestly say that the majority have come to pass. Some are still on the shelf and we will see in time.

A Prophetic word spoken in the early days of our ministry was that we would have advance teams going before us and paving the way. Only a few years ago has this come to pass. so more are on the shelf and in God's timing I believe thay will also come topass.

Also I am very cafeful as to whom I allow to lay hands on me and to speak in my life propheticlly.

The last -very wrong- "prophet" who uttered falsely over me made a b-line for me and grabbed ahold of me.

So, since you "don't allow" how exactly do you "not allow" What do you force them off? Or do you have them so intimidated that they dare not do it to you or what?

It would have taken Chuck Norris to get this last guy offa me.

[RamboPreacher]

i had one in service, "public", that was "false". told me I was missing what "He" had for me, by joining the military. the pastor (the prophet), then later said that he was going to "offer me a church" if I had "made the right decision", but since I didn't...

I knew that the prophecy was from his sincere heart (and not from God), but had weakened our relationship ever since, and we hardly communicate anymore, even though he is now a COGOP pastor in our same state.

I have had many "personal" and generic ones that could be applied to anyone. but two specifically that were pretty direct. one said that I would be independently wealthy (i wish, so still waiting for this - otherwise is a false prophet - but that evangelist (don't even remember the name) came and went, no other communications with him), and one that said I would be a teacher (this one has been coming true over the last few years especially - based on the details of the prophecy).

[paul]

Almost every prophecy spoken into my life has come to pass. Possibly because I am very cautious as to what I preceive as Prophetic.

If the Words spoken over me, whethter they are words of encouragement spoken by well meaning but mis directed friends. Seperating what it Word of knowledge but not prophetic, when all these are set aside and not prophetic. I can honestly say that the majority have come to pass. Some are still on the shelf and we will see in time.

A Prophetic word spoken in the early days of our ministry was that we would have advance teams going before us and paving the way. Only a few years ago has this come to pass. so more are on the shelf and in God's timing I believe thay will also come topass.

Also I am very cafeful as to whom I allow to lay hands on me and to speak in my life propheticlly.

The last -very wrong- "prophet" who uttered falsely over me made a b-line for me and grabbed ahold of me.

So, since you "don't allow" how exactly do you "not allow" What do you force them off? Or do you have them so intimidated that they dare not do it to you or what?

It would have taken Chuck Norris to get this last guy offa me.

the last one who came to me and said that he had a word for me, I was not comfortable with what he had ministered and I simply told him NO thanks loud enough for the persons next to me to hear. He went to the next person who let him speak.

Some have aked me if they can speak a word into my life. In some cases I will say yes, trying the spirit, and in other cases I say no.

I have told one or two who spoke anyway that it did bear witness with my spirit and I do not receive it.

While pastoring I have had to stop one or two and simply tell the congregation that we are going to learn a lesson today and share where I felt the person went awry and got into the flesh. I did it as lovingly as I knew how. some never came back and some thanked me.

Gerald, I am in agreement with Dr. Ron concerning parking lot or side walk prophecies. I will not let people give me a word outside a general setting unless it is by someone I know personally and has a proven prophetic ministry.

If one has a genuine prophetic gift and is truly being used of God that person will have no problem submitting to a Pastor and local leadership to judge the prophetic word. If they do, then I would not allow them to speak.

[DeWayneTN]

Since we are all sharing false prophecies, I do feel compelled to share a true one since I very much believe in them. Many years ago, I interviewed for what seemed like a dream magazine editor position. The interview went well and I was already mentally packing my bags for a move. I waited a week or two for word from the home office and at that point, I had my AOL mail set to be read aloud over the phone. On the way to church, I heard the words I feared "we decided to go in another direction." During church, a trusted friend approached me and gave a word with God's assurance that I was right where He wanted me. No one had really even known I had done the interview and I knew it was God's way of letting me know He was in control.