Episode 129: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 95

Episode Summary:

Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. (Jeremiah 1:4-6)

5 A prophet is a seer who sees the people’s hearts and foretells the things that’s coming to pass. And—and now, there’s a gift of prophecy. That’s in the church with the local members. It falls upon any of them. They give a prophecy. Then it cannot be received to the church until it’s been judged by two or three witnesses. And then, they have to put their seal on that, to say it’s of God. Then they have to watch to see if it happens. Then it may never fall on that brother or sister again. It may be on another one the next… That’s a gift of prophecy.

But a prophet, p-r-o-p-h-e-t, is borned a prophet, always from bef—was ordained that before the world ever even begin. See? Now, you take like Jesus Christ, the King of prophets. He was, from the garden of Eden, the Seed of the woman, prophet. And Moses was borned a proper child, a prophet. John the Baptist, why, Isaiah saw him seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, and said he’s the “voice of one crying in the wilderness,” seven hundred and twelve years before he was born. Jeremiah—God said before he was even formed in his mother’s womb that He knew him, and sanctified him, and ordained him a prophet to the nations. See?

6 Prophets have the Word of God, and are borned a prophet. A gift of prophecy is different. That’s a gift. Now, there’s nine… there’s five ordained gifts in the church: apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists. Now, that is the five gifts that God places in the church by His foreknowledge.

Then there’s nine gifts that’s locally in the church: speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues, and gifts of wisdom, and knowledge, and—and prophecy, and so forth. Them’s nine spiritual gifts that operates through the church. But then there’s nine—five office gifts that God puts in the church. And, oh, how we love to see them all operating in the…

One of them is the pastor, teacher, and those things. Then the others comes along in confirmation. Gifts are to magnify. And God’s just got it so even a fool will not be excused, will he? He will… It’s so simple the way God has made them. And I like that.

The more simpler you become, the greater you’ll become before God. That’s right. Don’t never try to lift yourself up. When you do, you’re bringing yourself down. See? He that exalts himself shall be abased.

62-0725 – “A Greater Than Solomon Is Here”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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