Positioned For Dynamic Prophetic Ministry

By Dr. Karen Williams

Our Father is now revealing His dynamic power through the prophetic ministry. The Lord desires us to prophesy to others as His messengers of fire. Personal prophetic words are capable of releasing life and transformation into the receiver’s heart. The purpose of the gift of prophecy is far more than words of encouragement or confirmation. We have the opportunity to prophesy words that bring forth the power of eternal life, healing, and liberty into the hearts and minds of the hearers. To do this we must minister prophetically from our position in Christ. 

The Lord desires that we prophesy words filled with transformative power as we release His authority to impact the hearts, minds and bodies of others. Jesus declared His words are spirit and life (Jn 6:63). As He speaks through us, personal prophetic ministry goes beyond words of knowledge, encouragement, and confirmation. These types of words are essential, and we must not neglect them. Yet it is time to believe the Holy Spirit will minister through us with higher levels of authority.

The Lord is drawing us into greater intimacy which enables us to minister with His words of creative power. These words bring forth life and transformation. As we prophesy, we have the opportunity to release words that set captives free, heal souls and ignite hearts with Christ’s passion and power. This occurs through the life-giving power of the Holy Spirit, who is the Spirit of Christ within us. He yearns to release His transformative words through us to manifest the testimony of Jesus in the lives of others (Rev 19:10). 

Three essential keys empower us to minister personal prophecies with the transformative power of the Spirit. First, we must intentionally pursue a closer relationship with the Lord. Second, we must believe He desires us to prophesy His words of life that release healing power and set captives free. Third, it is essential we learn to minister from our position in Christ as one with Him.

Intentional Pursuit of the Lord

Jesus promises His disciples that they will receive power from the Spirit when He comes upon them. This was initially fulfilled in the upper room on the Day of Pentecost as 120 of His followers spoke in other languages to the international crowd. The hearers of this phenomenon were Jews who traveled to Jerusalem from many nations to celebrate the Feast. The disciples unknowingly declared the Gospel of Jesus Christ in their languages. As a result, 3,000 were saved. Their hearts experienced transformation through the prophetic messages released by the Spirit. In this way, those in the upper room were the first to prophesy the Gospel message by the power of the Spirit after the resurrection. 

The gift of prophecy declares the testimony of the Gospel of Christ. It is expressed through believers in various ways. The servant of the Lord explains the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy as he discloses things to come to John the Revelator (Rev 19:10). Holy Spirit reveals Christ’s resurrection life and power to transform hearts and minds through prophesy. This is one way He manifests power to deliver the captives and heal those who are sick. The Spirit also shares through prophetic words God’s unfailing love, His plans of good and not evil, as well as the secrets of darkness.

The miracle of Pentecost was poured out upon 120 believers who intentionally pursued the Lord. These men and women demonstrated their passion for Christ as they earnestly prayed for ten days seeking the outpouring of His Spirit. They had already been born of the Spirit as Jesus breathed His Spirit on them (Jn 20:22). Yet their hearts hungered to know and experience Him in His resurrection life and power. 

We have the opportunity to live every day in awe of the Lord if we intentionally seek a close relationship with Him intimately. To know Christ in His fullness is to be our daily pursuit and eternal goal. There are no bounds to knowing Him and experiencing life as one with Him. Nothing is more important than knowing the wonders of the unlimited King of Glory. To enjoy the Lord every day is the greatest blessing anyone can have. When we pursue His presence, we experience His immeasurable love, His joy, and His peace that surpasses all understanding. There is no better life!

Heart-felt Faith

The challenge of faith is often rooted in a lack of understanding of the transformation that occurs when we are born again. With our natural eyes we see that we continue to live in our earthly bodies. We realize we have changed because suddenly we know Jesus Christ is Lord. We desire to know Him more and please Him. Now we must believe that our spirit has been transformed. We are truly united as one with Christ.

The moment we are born again Holy Spirit indwells us and we are brought to live inside Christ. Our spirits are instantaneously joined with Him as one. We live in Christ and He lives in us (Rom 6:11; 1 Cor 6:17). We literally become a new creation in Christ (1 Cor 5:17). Our life is in Him, now and forever. 

This truth of our union with Christ must be within our hearts, not just in our minds. We need to believe the Savior, who is the Creator, has joined us as one with Himself. This is faith that is beyond faith for salvation. It is believing that we are truly united as one with the Almighty. Through this union, Christ now lives His life on earth through us. He ministers through us as He is living inside us.

In this season, our Father is releasing more of Christ’s glory on the earth to shine in the darkness. He yearns that the glory of His Son will arise upon us (Is 60:1-2). In Jesus’ final prayer, He declared to His Father that He gave His disciples the glory that His Father gave Him (Jn 17:21-22). We too, are Jesus’ disciples and He wants us to minister with the same glory that was revealed during His ministry season. This occurs as we minister knowing our position is in Him as one with Him. In this way, Christ is magnified through us. Holy Spirit, help us believe it deeply within our hearts!

Ministering From Our Position in Christ

As I pursue an intimate relationship with the Lord, He brings me into His secret places in the heavenly realm. This is possible because I am one with Him. “My beloved speaks and says to me: ‘Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away” (Song 2:10). In His presence I am transformed into His image. His love saturates my heart to overflowing as my focus is more fully upon Him. The reality of my union with Christ settles into the depths of my soul. 

I am my Beloved’s and He is mine. His gardens are lovely, but they are barren without Him. I must have my Beloved. It is not enough that the Lord shows me heavenly things. I must be with Him! He truly is the delight of my life. He is the dance in my steps. He is the leaping of my heart as I cling to Him. 

While I live daily in the Lord’s presence, I minister to others from my position in Him. My spirit is one with Chist, filled with His unfailing love. His love pours out of me to those around me as I see others through His eyes. I experience His hope for them as my perspective has changed. His presence transforms me.

As we minister from our position in Christ, His life-giving, dynamic words are spoken through us. The prophetic ministry becomes transformative as the Spirit releases much greater power. Personal prophecies suddenly break bondages, remove shame, and release healing power. Hearts are forever changed as the Spirit flows through us. Words of life pierce through darkness and set captives free for, “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Cor 3:17). In this way, prophetic words penetrate hearts. Holy Spirit’s words open eyes to perceive Christ as hope is restored, and hearts are transformed. 

The gifts of healing and deliverance are suddenly functioning as we minister prophetically. This occurs because our intentional pursuit of knowing the Lord enables us to yield more fully to Him. Beholding Jesus removes our focus from ourselves. We are not wondering if we have enough faith for healing someone. When our hearts are enraptured with the King, we give Him liberty to work through us as He desires. Suddenly, the Spirit speaks healing power through us when we prophesy. Christ’s love and mighty power flow through us more freely as we become His messengers of fire. Lives are forever changed because we enjoy living in deep relationship with the Lord every day.