How to Know You’re Prophetic: 3 Signs
Hello, David Dia Hernandez here and you are watching Spirit Church on the Encounter TV Network.
I’m continuing now with my series on the prophetic by giving you three ways to know if you are prophetic.
I’m going to give you three very practical truths that will help you to discover the gift of the prophetic on your life.
But first step, Matesa is here with me. He’s going to lead you in some very anointed worship.
And then we’re getting right into this message here is Steven Mazuma to so to break me apart and to open, to see that you’re shamed.
Give me to trust what you said that you God is great.
I bro, I to trust with use is your Yeah, is great.
Um Yeah, a kid, a kid.
You, your fear is just my fear.
Um Yeah, your spirit made.
Yeah, away your spirit s you me, give me faith to trust what you said.
You good, your love is great.
Um It inside. OK?
Give me faith to trust what you said that you of his credit um in inside.
So I want to give you three truths that will help you understand whether or not, you have the gift of prophecy or if you are prophetic.
Now, these three signs that I’m about to give to, you can actually apply to all of the spiritual gifts.
But right now, we’re just talking about the prophetic.
So first Corinthians chapter 14 verse number one says this, let love be your highest goals.
That’s the foundation of the spiritual gifts.
But you should also desire the special abilities, the spirit gives especially the ability to prophesy.
Now, I don’t wanna talk much about it right now.
But it’s important to know that in first Corinthians 14, Paul, the Apostle is comparing the gift of prophecy with the gift of speaking in tongues.
And though he says that the gift of prophecy is better than speaking in tongues, he is not by any means saying that the gift of speaking in tongues itself is therefore bad.
He’s just saying that prophecy is better. But here I wanna draw this main point out.
He tells us to desire the spiritual gifts, especially prophecy.
Now, why would God want us to desire a spiritual gift obviously, because He wants to give it to us.
So number 11 of the signs that you know, you’re prophetic is the desire to prophesy.
Now, in some cases, prophetic people don’t want that gift.
I think of Jonah who God gave a message to and he was given this message to deliver.
But he ran in the opposite direction. He wanted nothing to do with it.
That didn’t mean that God didn’t call him.
But one of the signs can be the desire for the gift itself. I’ll never forget.
The first time I had an experience with the gift of prophecy.
The gifts that I asked the Lord for were the gift of healing, the gift of word of knowledge, the gift of miracles and the gift of teaching.
There were others, but those were the main ones that I prayed for.
So I was about, I think like 12, 13 years old when I asked God for these spiritual gifts.
So I pray this prayer. I go to church later that week and I’m sitting in church when God starts to speak to me and I didn’t even know God was speaking to me afterwards.
We all go and we’re hanging out with our friends.
And I remember we were standing in a circle of friends.
I had a few of my friends there and there was this one girl there and I looked right at her.
I didn’t try to prophesy. I wasn’t trying to hear God.
I wasn’t reading her to see what I could see in the spirit.
But out of my mouth came these words, I said, do you have a friend that you were talking to yesterday?
This was a midweek service. Do you have a friend that you were talking to who was suicidal?
She said, yes, I said, and she’s suicidal because her father is verbally abusive.
She said, yes, I said, and I see her, she’s talking to you right now.
She’s sitting up against her locker, she’s holding her knees together and she’s crying while she’s explaining this to you.
And this girl’s jaw just dropped. She said, how did you know that?
I said, I don’t know because it was just knowledge that had come to my mind for all that I knew, but it was just this deep inner knowing.
The word of knowledge had come to me. Now that came about as a result of praying for the gift.
And that prayer for the gift came about because there was a desire for the gift.
Look, let’s just be honest here.
Let’s just look at this logically, God would not tell you to desire something that He didn’t want to give to you.
Why would he ask you to desire something that is contrary to his word?
Why would he ask you to desire something that’s contrary to his will. There’s no way he would do that.
So if God has placed a desire in your heart for a spiritual gift, it’s because He wants you to have that gift.
Now ask yourself because some people get a little nervous and say, well, how do I know it was God that gave me this desire for the spiritual gift?
Well, your flesh wouldn’t want the gift because the flesh wants the glory that the, the gift brings but it doesn’t want the gift itself.
It doesn’t want the gift that helps people. That’s why it says let love be your highest goal.
The flesh wouldn’t be motivated, motivated by love. It, it would desire other things.
Yet there’s this desire that comes out of you that wants the spiritual gift that you might be a blessing to others that’s up the spirit.
Would the enemy want you to have a spiritual gift? Of course not.
So this desire, if it is in you is likely from the spirit and therefore that desire is something that God wants to fulfill.
Number two recognition. Now, some might disagree with me on this.
But this I found to be a great indicator that someone has a spiritual gift.
It’s possible that you desire to have a spiritual gift that has not yet been developed.
It’s possible that you desire to have a spiritual gift that has not yet been stirred.
This is why recognition is one of those truths that I’m giving you.
One of those ways that you know, if you have a spiritual gift, if you have a spiritual gift, you don’t have to go around self promoting and saying, hey, I have this spiritual gift.
Proverbs chapter 18 verse 16 says a man’s gift maketh room for him and bring him before great men.
Now, in the book of Proverbs here, I believe this is talking about material gifts.
This is talking about how maybe when a man comes before a king or a great person that if he brings a gift with him, it shows honor and respect and therefore that opens doors.
But the wisdom in that proverb applies to spiritual things as well.
If you have something that is of value, if you have something that is effective, if you have something that is true, that itself will be used to open the doors.
Not once in my ministry have, have I ever had to call a pastor and say, hey, you have to have me come speak because I’m a great preacher or hey, I’m gifted in the healing ministry.
You should have me come to your church. I’ve never once had to do that.
People just heard about the miracles that were happening in the meetings that I was ministering at and would come and they would call, I never had to go around with business cards and say, hey, have me at your church and say, hey, you need to come and, and let me speak for your conference.
It was never done that way. I never pushed myself on anyone.
I just obeyed the leading of the Holy Spirit.
People began to recognize that gift and they put the demand on that gift. So number one is desire.
Do you desire the spiritual gift? Number two is that gift recognized on your life?
Do people recognize the spiritual gift that rests on you? And number three, this should be the most obvious.
But first Corinthians chapter 12 verse four says there are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same spirit is the source of them all.
So the Holy Spirit gives you this gift. Why so that it can be in operation?
Number one is desire. Number two is recognition. Number three, quite simply is function.
Are you actually operating in that spiritual gift?
If you truly have a spiritual gift, that spiritual gift will work?
Now, this of course brings us to the question. When should I step out in faith?
And when should I know my boundaries?
The only difference between faith and foolishness when it comes to things like this is whether or not God has spoken, should I release that word?
Should I pray for that person? Should I insist on praying for that person?
Who after a few times that me asking didn’t want me to pray for them.
These are things you have to navigate by the spirit.
These are things you have to navigate by knowing the voice of the Holy Spirit and that comes with maturity that comes with recognizing him over a season of time.
So I can’t tell you how the voice of the Holy Spirit sounds.
That’s what I mentioned in the first part of this series.
But this is why it’s so important that we understand his voice.
Because if we know his voice, then we step out in faith based upon what he has said.
And we watch him operate in our lives.
So that third sign really is that you’ll see the gift in operation.
If you have the gift of healing, you’re going to see people healed.
If you have the gift of prophecy, you’re gonna speak oracles of God and those oracles will come true.
If you have the gift of the word of knowledge, you’re gonna be able to look at someone and see information in them that you should not otherwise know these gifts will operate if God has given them to you.
Now, remember spiritual gifts, like any spiritual aspect of our lives grow as we grow spiritually, they intensify, they’re strengthened, they’re honed, they’re crafted as we exercise them and as we grow spiritually.
So at some point, if you want to know, if you have the gift, you’re going to have to step out in faith.
And just because something didn’t work the first time doesn’t mean that God didn’t give you that gift.
It might just mean that you have to exercise that spiritual gift where you draw that line, you have to know the voice of the Holy Spirit.
As I said, one of the evangelists who inspired me, his name was Harry Hills and he talked about how many times he prayed for the sick and no one got healed before God finally gave him a healing ministry.
The gifts really all come down to faith.
We can’t complicate them if you’re complicating it, asking how do I know what about this scenario?
What about that scenario? When should I pray for this person or I know someone at work?
When do I step out? And how do I know I’m doing it without offending them?
And when is God really speaking to me? All that chaos has to just be calm.
You have to be at peace, you have to walk in confidence, you have to walk in faith and just step out.
Just do what the Holy Spirit is speaking to you to do so.
Number one desire, number two, recognition, number three function.
Those are the three signs that you have a spiritual gift.
I’m gonna pray with you now, I want to pray that God would so stir your faith that you might step out and see what God has on the other side of your step of faith.
Father in the name of Jesus, I pray for that one receiving this now.
And I ask you Lord to send forth your power, Holy Spirit and do them with boldness and power from on high.
I pray Lord that each and every gift in their life would be brought into operation that not one gift go unused.
We want everything Lord you have for us. In the name of Jesus, we pray.
I want you to say it because you agree. Say a men.
Well, that is it for the lesson and the prayer I wanna welcome.
Now, the new members of Spirit Church.
There you are up on the screen, we love you and we are praying for you.
I always say that because I always mean it if you like information and how you can join the Spirit Family.
Now, almost 10,000 members then go to David Hernandez ministries dot com slash Spirit church.
When you sign up, by the way, it’s free, you’re going to get an email from me every single week that will include a brand new teaching fresh from heaven study.
Just to present to you. You’re also going to get a brand new worship cover from Steven Matesa every single week.
And the best part, you can reply to that email for prayer support from our ministry staff.
So go to David Hernandez ministries dot com slash Spirit Churchch.
Sign up to Dave now to your comments and these comments are actually because I recorded two episodes in a row.
These comments will not be from last week’s teaching.
These comments will actually be from a teaching I did called Contagious Faith, which is also available here on the Encounter TV Network.
Now, if you’ve not watched this one, maybe you’re someone who feels like quitting, maybe you feel spiritually dry.
Maybe you’re coming into a season where you’re just wondering, Lord, what is my life really accomplishing for your kingdom?
And you’re gonna want to go watch this teaching or listen to it. It’s called contagious faith.
Make sure you go and check it out when you do.
And even right now make sure you’re subscribed to our channel if this content is blessing you and click that notification bell so that you receive all the notifications concerning our content.
So here are the comments from the video contagious faith Jan Moller who is a regular commenter writes.
Thank you, Pastor David. This really touched me. I love you so much.
Thank you for the encouragement while you were praying, I felt electricity and fire flowing through my body.
Well, Jan, we love you too. Mir Writes, your prayer is touching us here in the Philippines.
You’re making a great impact on my personal walk with Jesus. I felt like you specifically prayed for me.
God bless you. Pastor David and Spirit Church.
Mrs Blue writes, I thank God for all He does and is brother Hernandez.
Thank you for being a humble servant to the Lord.
I was dusting my TV, stand and crying about my situation and a notification popped up saying watch this.
If you feel like giving up God saw my tears as you were praying for us.
At the end, I could see a flow of light flowing out of me and back into me but brighter and sparkling.
I saw this in the spirit.
I have a lot to learn, but I’m asking you to keep me in your prayers. God bless you.
My Yanez writes, I’m so grateful for the Holy Spirit leading me to your ministry some time ago, this word came just on time for me.
Thank you so much David for all your teachings on the Holy Spirit.
He really changed my.
I’m continuing now with my series on the prophetic by giving you three ways to know if you are prophetic.
I’m going to give you three very practical truths that will help you to discover the gift of the prophetic on your life.
But first step, Matesa is here with me. He’s going to lead you in some very anointed worship.
And then we’re getting right into this message here is Steven Mazuma to so to break me apart and to open, to see that you’re shamed.
Give me to trust what you said that you God is great.
I bro, I to trust with use is your Yeah, is great.
Um Yeah, a kid, a kid.
You, your fear is just my fear.
Um Yeah, your spirit made.
Yeah, away your spirit s you me, give me faith to trust what you said.
You good, your love is great.
Um It inside. OK?
Give me faith to trust what you said that you of his credit um in inside.
So I want to give you three truths that will help you understand whether or not, you have the gift of prophecy or if you are prophetic.
Now, these three signs that I’m about to give to, you can actually apply to all of the spiritual gifts.
But right now, we’re just talking about the prophetic.
So first Corinthians chapter 14 verse number one says this, let love be your highest goals.
That’s the foundation of the spiritual gifts.
But you should also desire the special abilities, the spirit gives especially the ability to prophesy.
Now, I don’t wanna talk much about it right now.
But it’s important to know that in first Corinthians 14, Paul, the Apostle is comparing the gift of prophecy with the gift of speaking in tongues.
And though he says that the gift of prophecy is better than speaking in tongues, he is not by any means saying that the gift of speaking in tongues itself is therefore bad.
He’s just saying that prophecy is better. But here I wanna draw this main point out.
He tells us to desire the spiritual gifts, especially prophecy.
Now, why would God want us to desire a spiritual gift obviously, because He wants to give it to us.
So number 11 of the signs that you know, you’re prophetic is the desire to prophesy.
Now, in some cases, prophetic people don’t want that gift.
I think of Jonah who God gave a message to and he was given this message to deliver.
But he ran in the opposite direction. He wanted nothing to do with it.
That didn’t mean that God didn’t call him.
But one of the signs can be the desire for the gift itself. I’ll never forget.
The first time I had an experience with the gift of prophecy.
The gifts that I asked the Lord for were the gift of healing, the gift of word of knowledge, the gift of miracles and the gift of teaching.
There were others, but those were the main ones that I prayed for.
So I was about, I think like 12, 13 years old when I asked God for these spiritual gifts.
So I pray this prayer. I go to church later that week and I’m sitting in church when God starts to speak to me and I didn’t even know God was speaking to me afterwards.
We all go and we’re hanging out with our friends.
And I remember we were standing in a circle of friends.
I had a few of my friends there and there was this one girl there and I looked right at her.
I didn’t try to prophesy. I wasn’t trying to hear God.
I wasn’t reading her to see what I could see in the spirit.
But out of my mouth came these words, I said, do you have a friend that you were talking to yesterday?
This was a midweek service. Do you have a friend that you were talking to who was suicidal?
She said, yes, I said, and she’s suicidal because her father is verbally abusive.
She said, yes, I said, and I see her, she’s talking to you right now.
She’s sitting up against her locker, she’s holding her knees together and she’s crying while she’s explaining this to you.
And this girl’s jaw just dropped. She said, how did you know that?
I said, I don’t know because it was just knowledge that had come to my mind for all that I knew, but it was just this deep inner knowing.
The word of knowledge had come to me. Now that came about as a result of praying for the gift.
And that prayer for the gift came about because there was a desire for the gift.
Look, let’s just be honest here.
Let’s just look at this logically, God would not tell you to desire something that He didn’t want to give to you.
Why would he ask you to desire something that is contrary to his word?
Why would he ask you to desire something that’s contrary to his will. There’s no way he would do that.
So if God has placed a desire in your heart for a spiritual gift, it’s because He wants you to have that gift.
Now ask yourself because some people get a little nervous and say, well, how do I know it was God that gave me this desire for the spiritual gift?
Well, your flesh wouldn’t want the gift because the flesh wants the glory that the, the gift brings but it doesn’t want the gift itself.
It doesn’t want the gift that helps people. That’s why it says let love be your highest goal.
The flesh wouldn’t be motivated, motivated by love. It, it would desire other things.
Yet there’s this desire that comes out of you that wants the spiritual gift that you might be a blessing to others that’s up the spirit.
Would the enemy want you to have a spiritual gift? Of course not.
So this desire, if it is in you is likely from the spirit and therefore that desire is something that God wants to fulfill.
Number two recognition. Now, some might disagree with me on this.
But this I found to be a great indicator that someone has a spiritual gift.
It’s possible that you desire to have a spiritual gift that has not yet been developed.
It’s possible that you desire to have a spiritual gift that has not yet been stirred.
This is why recognition is one of those truths that I’m giving you.
One of those ways that you know, if you have a spiritual gift, if you have a spiritual gift, you don’t have to go around self promoting and saying, hey, I have this spiritual gift.
Proverbs chapter 18 verse 16 says a man’s gift maketh room for him and bring him before great men.
Now, in the book of Proverbs here, I believe this is talking about material gifts.
This is talking about how maybe when a man comes before a king or a great person that if he brings a gift with him, it shows honor and respect and therefore that opens doors.
But the wisdom in that proverb applies to spiritual things as well.
If you have something that is of value, if you have something that is effective, if you have something that is true, that itself will be used to open the doors.
Not once in my ministry have, have I ever had to call a pastor and say, hey, you have to have me come speak because I’m a great preacher or hey, I’m gifted in the healing ministry.
You should have me come to your church. I’ve never once had to do that.
People just heard about the miracles that were happening in the meetings that I was ministering at and would come and they would call, I never had to go around with business cards and say, hey, have me at your church and say, hey, you need to come and, and let me speak for your conference.
It was never done that way. I never pushed myself on anyone.
I just obeyed the leading of the Holy Spirit.
People began to recognize that gift and they put the demand on that gift. So number one is desire.
Do you desire the spiritual gift? Number two is that gift recognized on your life?
Do people recognize the spiritual gift that rests on you? And number three, this should be the most obvious.
But first Corinthians chapter 12 verse four says there are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same spirit is the source of them all.
So the Holy Spirit gives you this gift. Why so that it can be in operation?
Number one is desire. Number two is recognition. Number three, quite simply is function.
Are you actually operating in that spiritual gift?
If you truly have a spiritual gift, that spiritual gift will work?
Now, this of course brings us to the question. When should I step out in faith?
And when should I know my boundaries?
The only difference between faith and foolishness when it comes to things like this is whether or not God has spoken, should I release that word?
Should I pray for that person? Should I insist on praying for that person?
Who after a few times that me asking didn’t want me to pray for them.
These are things you have to navigate by the spirit.
These are things you have to navigate by knowing the voice of the Holy Spirit and that comes with maturity that comes with recognizing him over a season of time.
So I can’t tell you how the voice of the Holy Spirit sounds.
That’s what I mentioned in the first part of this series.
But this is why it’s so important that we understand his voice.
Because if we know his voice, then we step out in faith based upon what he has said.
And we watch him operate in our lives.
So that third sign really is that you’ll see the gift in operation.
If you have the gift of healing, you’re going to see people healed.
If you have the gift of prophecy, you’re gonna speak oracles of God and those oracles will come true.
If you have the gift of the word of knowledge, you’re gonna be able to look at someone and see information in them that you should not otherwise know these gifts will operate if God has given them to you.
Now, remember spiritual gifts, like any spiritual aspect of our lives grow as we grow spiritually, they intensify, they’re strengthened, they’re honed, they’re crafted as we exercise them and as we grow spiritually.
So at some point, if you want to know, if you have the gift, you’re going to have to step out in faith.
And just because something didn’t work the first time doesn’t mean that God didn’t give you that gift.
It might just mean that you have to exercise that spiritual gift where you draw that line, you have to know the voice of the Holy Spirit.
As I said, one of the evangelists who inspired me, his name was Harry Hills and he talked about how many times he prayed for the sick and no one got healed before God finally gave him a healing ministry.
The gifts really all come down to faith.
We can’t complicate them if you’re complicating it, asking how do I know what about this scenario?
What about that scenario? When should I pray for this person or I know someone at work?
When do I step out? And how do I know I’m doing it without offending them?
And when is God really speaking to me? All that chaos has to just be calm.
You have to be at peace, you have to walk in confidence, you have to walk in faith and just step out.
Just do what the Holy Spirit is speaking to you to do so.
Number one desire, number two, recognition, number three function.
Those are the three signs that you have a spiritual gift.
I’m gonna pray with you now, I want to pray that God would so stir your faith that you might step out and see what God has on the other side of your step of faith.
Father in the name of Jesus, I pray for that one receiving this now.
And I ask you Lord to send forth your power, Holy Spirit and do them with boldness and power from on high.
I pray Lord that each and every gift in their life would be brought into operation that not one gift go unused.
We want everything Lord you have for us. In the name of Jesus, we pray.
I want you to say it because you agree. Say a men.
Well, that is it for the lesson and the prayer I wanna welcome.
Now, the new members of Spirit Church.
There you are up on the screen, we love you and we are praying for you.
I always say that because I always mean it if you like information and how you can join the Spirit Family.
Now, almost 10,000 members then go to David Hernandez ministries dot com slash Spirit church.
When you sign up, by the way, it’s free, you’re going to get an email from me every single week that will include a brand new teaching fresh from heaven study.
Just to present to you. You’re also going to get a brand new worship cover from Steven Matesa every single week.
And the best part, you can reply to that email for prayer support from our ministry staff.
So go to David Hernandez ministries dot com slash Spirit Churchch.
Sign up to Dave now to your comments and these comments are actually because I recorded two episodes in a row.
These comments will not be from last week’s teaching.
These comments will actually be from a teaching I did called Contagious Faith, which is also available here on the Encounter TV Network.
Now, if you’ve not watched this one, maybe you’re someone who feels like quitting, maybe you feel spiritually dry.
Maybe you’re coming into a season where you’re just wondering, Lord, what is my life really accomplishing for your kingdom?
And you’re gonna want to go watch this teaching or listen to it. It’s called contagious faith.
Make sure you go and check it out when you do.
And even right now make sure you’re subscribed to our channel if this content is blessing you and click that notification bell so that you receive all the notifications concerning our content.
So here are the comments from the video contagious faith Jan Moller who is a regular commenter writes.
Thank you, Pastor David. This really touched me. I love you so much.
Thank you for the encouragement while you were praying, I felt electricity and fire flowing through my body.
Well, Jan, we love you too. Mir Writes, your prayer is touching us here in the Philippines.
You’re making a great impact on my personal walk with Jesus. I felt like you specifically prayed for me.
God bless you. Pastor David and Spirit Church.
Mrs Blue writes, I thank God for all He does and is brother Hernandez.
Thank you for being a humble servant to the Lord.
I was dusting my TV, stand and crying about my situation and a notification popped up saying watch this.
If you feel like giving up God saw my tears as you were praying for us.
At the end, I could see a flow of light flowing out of me and back into me but brighter and sparkling.
I saw this in the spirit.
I have a lot to learn, but I’m asking you to keep me in your prayers. God bless you.
My Yanez writes, I’m so grateful for the Holy Spirit leading me to your ministry some time ago, this word came just on time for me.
Thank you so much David for all your teachings on the Holy Spirit.
He really changed my.
