I posted the article below in a newsgroup
pertaining to the prophetic. I felt urged to write it after reading several
articles by so-called prophets or "watchmen" as they call themselves. They
were clearly operating in a different prophetic stream than what we are
experiencing in Sunderland. I thought I'd post it here as well. Maybe you
can benefit from it, who knows!
Guido
PROPHETS IN REVIVAL
I have witnessed a true outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Sunderland, UK from December 1994 onwards (it actually started in July that year). During this time people from all over the world came to visit and "catch the Fire."
What we are witnessing now is a true prophetic movement coming out of this outpouring. A strong prophetic people. God is redefining the prophetic mantle and discarding with the notion that prophets are "flaky" and always speaking doom and gloom in 16th/17th century King James English!
God's modern prophets are fully flowing in the Spirit and they move in companies -company of prophets. There is no place any longer for lone rangers! God's prophets are submissive servants to the Body of Christ. God wants to speak to His people in contemporary English/American(!) and the Spirit of God is wooing His people with passionate love to get excited for a coming Harvest that is going to be bigger than anything else we've seen. It's gonna be big!
God is challenging His people (His Son's Bride!) to be passionately involved in evangelism reaching out particularly to city slums, to the homeless, to the prostitutes, to the drug-addicts, to the rejected, to the wounded and hurt. For the first time the Church is waking up to the fact that we have been walking our Christian Life with our hands in front of our eyes and our ears closed to the cries of the needy. And God's heart is for the needy.
God is giving us a new meaning to His Words: Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the year of the Favour of the Lord.
We are already seeing the same thing happening in other places of the world: invariably wherever there is an outpouring it leads to Evangelising of the "poor": the destitute of society, because THIS is the Year of the Favour of the Lord! Wow!
Blessings to you, guys!
Guido Kuwas