02/12/26 GOD COMMUNICATES WITH US
God is not revealing anything new through so-called prophets.
God does speak to His people today, but not in the Prophetic or Apostolic way that He did in the Bible.
A basic checklist. Not intended to be a complete work, but it can be a good guideline.
God's REVELATION of His inerrant word was given only to Divinely chosen, anointed, inspired, guided, Spirit-filled men (holy men of old).
God's CONVICTION of sin and His CALL to repentance are given to sinners.
God's ENLIGHTENMENT is given through His word to believers who seek God (leading to growth in grace and knowledge).
God's personal leading is given to believers who seek God's will.
This does not depend on signs or fleeces, but rather spiritual awareness and discernment, which develop with spiritual maturity and a closeness to God (and they are always aligned with God's infallible word).
Always test the spirits, to see if they are of God.
Beware of those who claim, "I got a word from the Lord," Or "God told me."
It probably is not from God at all.
It is never a "New Revelation."
If it is God's leading, it will never disagree with the Bible.
If it is God's leading, it will always align with New Testament truth.
It might not be spiritual awakening at all; it might only be the awakening of the human mind to natural truth.
Beware of people who claim that God gave them a "word from the Lord" for someone else. (God talks directly to His own people.)
Beware of so-called "Prophetic utterances."
God does not speak to anyone in KJV English.
There are no present-day New Testament Apostles or Prophets. Any such claim is either from ignorance or deception. (Legitimate present-day "prophecy" is almost always the forthtelling of the word of God, but almost never the foretelling of future events.)
God does not appoint and send local people to give personal prophecies to neighbors or fellow church people.
Christians are God's witnesses, God's ambassadors; we are not God's revelators.
A faithful witness tells the truth. A legitimate ambassador is faithful to the actual words of authority.
Ours is a derived and a restricted authority, bound by Biblical protocols.
