Insights
💭 “Prophecy is encouraging.”
📖 “Pursue love, desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.” – God’s command to seek prophetic abilities is emphasized in the Bible.
🙏 God wants us to seek His voice and desires us to prophesy, indicating that we have the ability to hear and communicate with Him.
😇 “Let’s put it to the scriptural test – did it encourage you and exhort you?” – Robert Morris emphasizes the importance of seeking messages that bring encouragement and exhortation from God.
🗣️ “He who prophesies speaks edification, exhortation, and comfort, not criticism, judgment, or hate.”
😊 Barnabas was given the name “Son of Encouragement” by the apostles because he was always encouraging people.
💡 Prophets in the Bible were meant to encourage and strengthen people, not rebuke or tear them down.
🌍 TBN’s mission is to use every available means to reach as many individuals and families as possible with the life-changing gospel of Jesus Christ.
Summary
TLDR: The key idea of the video is that God desires believers to pursue the ability to prophesy in order to encourage, edify, and bring comfort to others.
- 💡 God’s prophecy is encouraging and can come in the form of dreams.
- 👉 Pursue love, desire spiritual gifts, and especially seek the ability to prophesy, as commanded by God in 1 Corinthians 14:1.
- 👨👦👦 God wants you to desire to prophesy because he is a good father who speaks and wants to build you up, encourage you, and bring comfort to your heart.
- 😊 If a word does not encourage, edify, or bring comfort, it is not from God.
- 👂 Seek God’s voice for edification, exhortation, and comfort, not criticism or correction, and learn to prophesy to encourage others.
- 👉 Joseph’s name was changed to Barnabas by the apostles because he was known for being encouraging, prompting the question of what our friends would name us based on our behavior during difficult times.
- 👉 Prophets in the Bible encouraged and strengthened people with their words, rather than rebuking or tearing them down, and sometimes a simple act of encouragement can have a profound impact on someone’s life.
- 🙏 God can help you understand the Bible, but the challenge is actually reading it and obeying His voice; the speaker shares personal experiences of receiving dreams from God and emphasizes the significance of prophecy in spreading the gospel.
8.1 God can help you to read and understand the Bible, but the challenge lies in getting you to actually do it and obey His voice.
8.2 The speaker had a dream about a friend, prayed for him, and later found out that the friend was going through a tough season.
8.3 The speaker shares a personal experience of receiving a dream from God at the exact time his father passed away, emphasizing the significance of prophecy and expressing gratitude for the support in spreading the gospel.
