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    A Prophetic Showdown Is Surely Coming, and It's Coming Soon

    http://http://www.charismamag.com/blogs/the-plumb-line/24752-a-prophetic-showdown-is-surely-coming-and-it-s-coming-soon

    "Prophets are a strange breed of men. They are God's emergency men for crisis hours. And the price of being a prophet is that a man has to live alone. All God's great men have been very, very lonely men."

    When I read words like this from Leonard Ravenhill, I'm challenged. When I look at the state of prophetic ministry today, I'm grieved.

    Ravenhill was known for his no-comprising, hard-hitting, sin-blasting messages. He carried the spirit of a prophet. He carried a spirit like John the Baptist that laid the ax to the root—but he didn't do it with a critical, condemning heart. He did it with pure and undefiled love forged in the fire of God.

    "The great need in America tonight, I'm convinced of this—as good as Bible schools are with their assembly lines and producing their preachers—the greatest need in America tonight is prophets," Ravenhill once said. "Ah, the prophets were men who walked with God, they felt like God, they saw like God, they wept like God, they yearned like God. They had no satisfaction in seeing the beauty of the temple, the ritual, the formality."

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    Quote Originally Posted by A.J. View Post
    "Prophets are a strange breed of men. They are God's emergency men for crisis hours. And the price of being a prophet is that a man has to live alone. All God's great men have been very, very lonely men."
    Sounds very religious to me. I don't think there is any scripture for that either.

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    I believe the definition or description is being derived from a look at the OT prophets..it does seem to fit them..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quest View Post
    I believe the definition or description is being derived from a look at the OT prophets..it does seem to fit them..
    No it doesn't. Hosea was even told to get a wife. Can you find a mention of someone who was told not to marry, except for Paul who had that gift but isn't actually mentioned as being a prophet ?

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    I don't think Ravenhill meant "lonely" as in not being permitted to marry...I think he meant that a true prophet would not be easily accepted by the church/ religious masses

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    Quote Originally Posted by FaithfulOne View Post
    I don't think Ravenhill meant "lonely" as in not being permitted to marry...I think he meant that a true prophet would not be easily accepted by the church/ religious masses
    Strange way of saying it in that case "has to live alone". As if he is supposed to be shunned by everybody. And it gets worse "very, very lonely men". That's not even a situation, that is more like a reaction.

    Nope, I think that is just religion in charismatic disguise.

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    Something along the lines of "comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comforted" Psalm 18:27

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    Psalm 18:27 NKJV
    For You will save the humble people,
    But will bring down haughty looks

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    Psalm 18:27 NKJV
    For You will save the humble people,
    But will bring down haughty looks

    ?
    http://www.dictionaryofchristianese....e-comfortable/


    www.dictionaryofchristianese.com/

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    Okay, got that. I'm not sure how it relates to the OP though.

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