According to Wikipedia (2022), “a prophecy is a message that has been communicated to a person (typically called a prophet) by a supernatural entity.” Prophecy usually comes as pre-natural knowledge about future events or circumstances in a person’s life. The prophet usually receives the revelations by the Spirit of God, but I have seen and witnessed prophecies coming forth through some of these so-called prophets by dark entities with evil intent.
Either way, many of these prophecies set the course of a person’s life on a pathway to either encouragement and rebuilding or discouragement and destruction.
Boy Wonder
Now there are some supposed prophets that I have encountered that I discerned were truly being used of God. Those prophets did not seem to give prophecies of their own will, but they truly seemed to pray for God’s direction and words.
My first experience with a man who called himself a prophet was when I was five years old. I saw him when my father took my brother and me to a tent revival. The prophet was known as Boy Wonder, and there were flyers all over town about him. I remember it being said that he had the healing powers of God upon him and had become a preacher when he was a young boy.
Despite my father being a skeptic about this prophet, my father was encouraged by relatives to go and see the prophet. The relatives had told him all of the wonders he would see for himself. I specifically remember my father talking to my mother about taking my brother and me along, but my mother was not interested in going with us.
Once we arrived to the tent building and were inside, I remember intently watching Boy Wonder. Just like everyone else present, I waited to see what was so wonderful about this man. I soon realized that he was just a man, however. There was nothing spectacular that happened in my eyes, and I proceeded to turn my attention away from him and flip through the pages of a Chick Tract pamphlet that had been handed out.
Boy Wonder preached and gave an altar call for people to come to Jesus. Then he separately had people go up to the altar for prayer for illnesses and other matters. My dad turned to my brother and me and solicited for us to go with him. I remember being uninterested in going up among a crowd of people, but my dad lifted me and carried me in his arms while caring my brother on top of his shoulders.
When we were down at the front near the altar, the prophet, Boy Wonder, prayed for us. Then he spoke what I assumed were prophetic words over each of us individually. He had a lot of words for my brother, and then he finally turned to me and said, “Little girl, you have a voice.” My father laughed. The prophet looked at my father in amazement and asked, “Why the laughter?” My father responded, still tickled, “She doesn’t talk. She’s shy. You can hardly get any words out of her even when she is at home. When she does talk about something that interests her, that’s the only time she’ll talk your head off.”
I remember the prophet taking a step back to look at me. Then he placed his hands on my head as if to pray. “No,” he said. “She’s got a lot to say. God has gifted her; He’s given her eyes that can really see, and she sees and knows a lot. She sees and knows things deeply. She carries things deeply. She is a child of depth with a deep heart. So I pray for her protection.” My father stared at me. It was neither of our first times hearing something similar to this. Boy Wonder simply confirmed something that my father and me already knew, and I already knew I needed a lot of protection.
The Truth Exposing Prophet
After that prophet called Boy Wonder, I never had any other encounters with so-called prophets until I moved away from my family and began attending a non-denominational church. One such prophet I recall visited a church that I attended and seemingly set the congregation ablaze with his words. I think that the leading pastor of the congregation at the time had not bargained for such bluntness and truthfulness from this prophet.
Most prophecies within the church by this leading pastor and the associates were based on half-truths and were used to manipulate and control members. Imagine the surprise of this pastor having invited someone [a prophet] who actually did the opposite of what leadership wanted and expected to be done. It certainly made for a change of scenery within the church. That is for certain.
Oftentimes, the words of a prophet do not go over well with everyone. Their words are always scrutinized by narcissistic types and those that want to have their way. At any time prophecies do not speak to the desires of what someone wants, then these prophets are ridiculed and accused of practicing wickedness.
In biblical times, such prophets would be stoned to death for speaking lies. Today, I am in awe by how many supposed prophets would actually be stoned to death for speaking lies to people. There are countless, and most of them speak for profit.
Nevertheless, this particular prophet that the pastor invited had wanted to address some of the issues he saw within the church structure and the church itself. So, he started speaking from the head of the congregation in leadership and made his way down to speaking to the members.
On the surface, it appeared that the prophet spoke exactly what the pastor and leadership team wanted to hear, but it became very clear that the spoken words of the prophet were a double-edged sword that cut the pastor and leadership team to the heart. The looks on their faces were priceless as this prophet unwittingly exposed them for the dirt that was happening behind the scenes … dirt that would be siphoned out as dust from hard core cleaning.
I doubt this prophet even had any idea how much of the words he spoke would eventually set forth a direction that the church would not be able to detour from its path. The secret sins in the dark would be exposed and brought to the light. I also doubt that the leadership had any idea of what would occur after allowing this prophet to enter into the pulpit and speak such powerful and damaging words.
To keep up the pretense and confuse the members, however, the pastor continued to allow this prophet to speak on the basis and thought that members would discredit the prophet’s words. Some members did discredit this prophet’s words, and even I was skeptical up until a service where I was healed in a manner that I knew was nothing but God. It was a service where I had not ever shared with anyone the deepest parts of having endured horrific trauma – trauma that my brained had stored and kept locked and safe in secure file old cabinets.
This prophet knew nothing about me or my trauma, but he seemed to speak words of healing. At one point during the service, he came up to me and told me that I was given a precious gift that enabled me to see deep down to the core of a person to who they really are and not who they try to be. He did not call the gift discernment, but I knew that is what the gift had to be, and his words were only confirmation.
From what I had always learned about prophecy, prophetic words should always confirm what one already knows about oneself or a situation. This prophet’s words were very confirming but also solidified my place in the congregation. If I had not been a target before, I had suddenly become thrust into that position. I could actually feel the atmosphere change and the eyes of judgment and anger upon me.
The pastor and the leadership of this particular congregation hated true discernment because it would rip the mantle of their lies down into a huge heap. This prophet had unhinged the age old status quo that was upheld within this particular church and had spoken to several members who would be pivotal in exposing the dark things that were to come and be brought out into the open.
However, like so many others, I was ignorant of these matters until much later. I had no reason to not believe the church had lies and dark secrets until things happening did not add up. In fact, so many things in this particular church did not add up, and the place where I had sought healing, relationship, and safety was just a disguise for more narcissistic entanglements and junk.
False Prophets
After this particular prophet’s visit, the pastor and leadership would invite more prophets, but some of those prophets were nothing more than people hired to stop the progress of true discernment from moving within the church. In essence, the pastor and leadership brought in false prophets to keep in the dark what they had wanted to remain hidden all while breaking down key members [through methods of spiritual abuse] who had the power to bring real change.
I took note of how some of those prophets would come to me immediately with what they claimed was foresight knowledge from God. Yet, all their words did was to distract me, belittle me, and discourage me. I had to learn to decipher the difference between true and false prophetic words from people. I had to learn that just because someone calls themselves a prophet or says that they have words from God does not make it so at all.
Oftentimes, I would automatically know that I was a target based on what I saw in the person’s eyes. Most often, the eyes of the person speaking to me were more than the windows to their soul. The eyes also told me who and what I was dealing with because if a person’s eyes appeared familiar to me, then I knew. Familiar eyes that I had long experienced because of narcissistic predators who feared exposure were often the eyes that I would see, and this is when I knew what I was up against.
Basically, I took the words of all so-called prophets [real or false] with a grain of salt until their words could be proven or disapproved by scripture … at least that is what I taught myself and also what I had learned as well. Sometimes I was fooled, but oftentimes, I did not allow a person’s words to sway me just because they claimed to be a prophet. These so-called prophets would often use a lot of scripture when they realized they were not moving me … when they realized I was not buying what they were selling … when they realized I could see through their lies.
Nevertheless, I eventually left that particular church and others like it when it was apparent that I was always going to be targeted for not going along with wicked programs and agendas. Unfortunately, church simply turned out not to be the place for me. Interestingly, church was not even the place for me as a small child either, but I had not recognized this fact for a long time. Yet, any time I encountered someone with a true prophetic gift, I would always be told that my presence would not be wanted within the church environment because of the gifts of discernment and empathy I possessed, thereby, rendering me as the black sheep.
Fortunately, I was and am just one of many black sheep, and most of the ones that I know have not found their steady home within a church environment either. As for prophecy, I do believe it exists in truth and is a gift. It is unfortunate, however, that so many people exploit this gift leaving so many people devastated by false words. Even now, I find it hard to believe people based on their words alone. From experience, there seems to be far too many wolves wearing the wool of sheep and far too many churches that buy into what these wolves sell, and that is the cult of prophecy.
My Voice Unchained 