LETTER TO THE YOUNG PROPHETS by Femi A. Falade

LETTER TO THE YOUNG PROPHETS by Femi A. Falade

This article is dedicated to the alumni and sons of prophets of Joseph Ayo Babalola, International School of Prophet, Ekiti-Nigeria.

As a growing prophet in my time of discovering my position in God’s ministerial structure based on Ephesian chapter four and verse eleven, I have met so many seeming disappointment that turned blessings. Times when we desire to speak but what we thought we had God spoke seemed to be our imagination and predictions. Times when God spoke and our inability to believe what God said made us to lose such prophetic fish and thus recorded loss in our prophetic touring. It is not difficult to find out what the problem was.
 The truth is, young prophet don’t want to grow.
Dear young prophet, I will define you as those whom God had ordained as a prophet but have not discovered themselves to be one. I would encapsulate you with the Jeremiah generation who say “I am a youth, I cannot speak”. The definition also covers the demography of those who are in prophetic school instituted by God through men or those prophetic schools God established with individuals as they personally and passionately follow Him. My letter’s addressees also include those who have spent physical years in the prophetic ministry but their years of spiritual relevance are as slow as close to none. May you find grace to see in the mirror of this word from the throne of mercy.
Young Prophets, there would be no need adding to the numerical strength of the prophets we have in the world if your intention to be one is self-enriching, self-centered or self-awareness. There is a serious temptation when a young prophet started having his voice heard among some crowd. In most cases, the pride that “God also speak through me” sets in and begins to kill the young prophet “before the day of his birth”. If your motive is not rightly positioned, you will soon fall into the trap the old prophets fall into and become “one of the fake prophets”.
Dear young prophets, the first killer of your glorious prophetic destiny is the laziness to pay the price for the call at which you have been called. The laziness to fast and pray. The laziness to pray to fast. The lazy to study the scriptures for correct understanding and living the biblical order of life in fruit and gift of the Spirit. The laziness to bring yourself to the place where God can brood upon you and causes you to be incubated. This laziness to stay in spiritual exercise to keep fit will only make you a point of shame to prophetic ministry birthed by the ruggedity of our Fathers. That was what the servant of the prophet, Gehazi fell into that caused his generation a “leprosy lineage”.
Young prophets, your intension to be the man of the year cannot work out with your ministry. You will face rejection, dishonor and natural dislike. The message bible in John 4:44 (paraphrased) says, Jesus knew by experience that, a prophet has no honour among his people. The search for honour from men who will call you “Daddy” is a path way to the fall of your prophetic kingdom.

There is no need for this self-advertisement. Once there is a little anointing on your head and you have someone who could do graphics designs, then you are good to be “a host” of the meeting. The Holy Ghost is no longer the Host. The picture of Jesus is no longer seen but yours in a bigger size.

Leonard Ravenhill have this to say to the prophets:
Let him (the prophet) be as plain as John the Baptist, let him for a season be a voice crying in the wilderness of modern theology and stagnant “churchianity”. Let him be a selfless as Paul the apostle. Let him, too, say and live, “This One thing I Do”. Let him reject ecclesiastical favors. Let him be self-abasing, nonself-seeking, nonself-protecting, nonself-righteous, nonself-glorifying, nonself-promoting. Let him say nothing that will draw men to himself but only that which will move men to God. Let him come daily from the throne room of God, the place where he has received the order of the day. Let him, under God, unstop the ears of the millions who are deaf through the clatter of shekels milked from this hour of material mesmerism.

I want to conclude that the young prophet would succeed in his journey if he would learn from the mistake of the old prophets when they were young like him. Read and study about the ministry he is called into. Maintain a consistence walk with the One who sent him.

I am not planning to add figure to the growing world prophets nor adding salt to the injury of the prophetic ministry. Those who are attackers of prophetic ministry will have no stand in same times to come if the young prophets will help their prophetic destiny from. This is the word for the season.