‘Not everybody who prophesize is a Prophet’

The Chairman of The Church of Pentecost, Apostle Dr. Opoku Onyinah, has revealed that not everyone who prophesies and performs wonders is a prophet of God.

He explained that a prophet is someone who receives direct message from the throne room of God that is useful to human beings and to fulfill the will of God, but not for self-display and glory.

According to him, prophecies and prophetic messages should be divine inspired and should reveal missions and hidden things that will promote the work of the kingdom of God.

Apostle Dr. Opoku Onyinah disclosed this in a keynote address at the ongoing 5th All Ministers and Wives’ Conference of The Church of Pentecost at the Pentecost Convention Centre (PCC), Gomoa Fetteh on Thursday, January 14, 2016.

The five-day event which is full of prayer, fasting and the sharing of the Word of God is under the theme, “Hearing and Obeying the Lord’s Voice in My Generation” -1 Samuel 3:9-10. This year’s conference which will end on Friday has attracted about 3,500 participants from Ghana and the Francophone countries in West Africa.

Speaking on the topic: “The Constitution of the Prophet (What Makes the Prophet),” Apostle Dr. Opoku Onyinah explained that a prophet is somebody who should be able to have the word of knowledge and word of wisdom and has the gift of the discerning of spirits, among others.

Touching on the gift of the word of knowledge which, he said, is one of the key components of the prophetic ministry, Chairman Opoku Onyinah indicated that the gift of the word of knowledge is real and its purpose is to reveal hidden things which are useful to humanity. “It can reveal things in the past, present or the future,” he mentioned.

He defined the gift of the word of knowledge as the ability to know truth that is hidden, saying, “It is something that is not received through the normal human ways, thus through studies, but something that drops immediately either through a vision, dream or trance,” adding, “The gift of word of knowledge operates in visions, dreams and trances.”

With biblical examples and his personal experiences, Apostle Dr. Opoku Onyinah disclosed that dreams are images that people see when they are asleep and such images appear involuntarily in their mental sights.

According to him, everybody dreams but not everyone can have visions and trances since vision is something associated with prophets.

Chairman Opoku Onyinah also touched on angelic visitation and audible voice as some of the means by which God reveals Himself to His prophets.

He prayed that the various gifts of the Holy Spirit would abound in the Church so that the people of God will see more than the ordinary person will see and also hear from God more than the ordinary person will hear.