Niels Prip – Blog

Prophetic Mediocrity

Wouldn’t it be nice if when someone spoke a prophetic word in a meeting, the elders of the church would pause and judge what was said?  Maybe even write down the “word” to see if it comes to pass. If they were unsure about the word that was given, that could be the grace given, it would be written down for a season, to see if it was God or not. And if it proved to not be God, an elder would stand up and say, “We were not sure if this was God, but now sufficient time has passed, and we now are confident that it was not God”, or “We are now confident that it was God”.

Instead, when you hear a “word”, you rejoice because it is a “pleasant word”. After all, you want a pleasant meeting, not wanting anything in a meeting that might cause people to not come back to your church. Pleasant “words” are nice, but if it is not God, and you put God’s name on it, it is vile, something of human origin. There is a fine line between what is spiritual and what is from the soul. And that is one thing that the charismatic church has still not learned in all these years.

I have seen this for over 40 years. I saw it 40 years ago, I saw it along the way and I even see it today. Do you despise the truth? Are you afraid of it? Don’t you want to hear from God? You say you do! Don’t you want to know whether a word is from God or not? All those years I always heard the same lame excuse “that people are learning to be prophetic, speaking a word, and we are not opposed to that or opposed to it being a little messy”.

Don’t get me wrong, a mess is alright, if it is cleaned up with accountability and judgment by the elders. You can’t leave the mess, or it will start to pile up. It is fine for someone to learn being prophetic, but to do so without accountability is madness. Without judging what is said, you set them up for failure, thinking something is from God when it is not from God. You then train the church to not know the difference. That is what you train them in, mediocrity. They will never learn to discern what is God or what is from the flesh. All pleasant things will be assumed to be from God, what peril you are in!

Hebrew 5:12-14 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.