The Unbiblical Practices Series: Prophelying

Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart. (Jeremiah 14:14)

Please don’t become weary, you may be disturbed by what false prophet Benny Hinn is doing as you see the tears rolling down the eyes of the little boy. I love Benny Hinn because of the Lord Jesus command to love. I hate the evil practices that he is doing upon this child. In the video, it is as if he enjoys it, but he is doing what I call prophelying. I coined this term from a Christian friend of mine who is currently trapped in the WoF (Word of Faith) movement, so it is not a theological term. Nor is it a word of endearment. This word is formed by taking prophesy and lying, and compounding them together. Hence you get: prophelying. It means to predict the future events or reveal the secrets in a person’s life (similar to that of a psychic reading) and coin such a prediction as God’s doing. Prophelying is performed by some of today’s well known false prophets and false teachers. Here’s a list (yes I will name their names): Benny Hinn, Jamal Bryant, T.D Jakes, Creflo Dollar, Noel Jones, Eddie Long, Paula White, Juanita Bynum, Cindy Jacobs, Chuck Pierce, Dutch Sheets, Bill Hamon, Patricia King, any TBN, Daystar/God TV telethon participants.

This post is very close to my heart. I have previously repented from this practice. I have searched the scriptures out to see if what I was doing was true. I found that prophelying is not of the Lord Jesus Christ. Prophelying is dangerous and is not something any Christian should become involved in. Yes Christians, true blue ones can prophelie. So while I named all the false teachers above, I myself was in that category of false prophets. I thought it gave me so much power to look into people’s lives and predict what I thought to be true. I have seen the tears rolling down men’s’ faces. They thought I was some great person with a gift only God could give me. God didn’t give me this, my flesh did.

I hope in this post, the brethren of the Lord Jesus Christ, and even you who are in need of Jesus, can come and find rest in Him by the exposure of this unbiblical practice. I will attempt to identify the primary target of this practice. I will use my own experience in this evil to show how deceiving prophelying can be. We should also understand that prophelying can come to pass. We must not take this practice lightly, instead flee from coveting after such practices. This practice is clearly not of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Main Focus of Prophelying: Your flesh/emotions/feelings
The target of a prophet liar is the flesh. Feelings and emotions is where prophelying releases it deadly poison. The emotions and feelings of a person’s flesh is weak, and a smart prophet liar knows this (Matthew 26:41;Mark 14:38; Romans 7:18-22). Look at how Benny Hinn in the above video takes advantage of the kid’s feelings. The kid was star struck as he came on stage, and his eyes are filled with tears. This is perfect for Benny Hinn as he seizes the opportunity. Prophelying looks to make you cry, or make you feel good. It touches your emotions and strokes them gently. By the things a prophet liar is saying, the subject stands in amazement and awe, hoping to hear more and more of what supposedly God is going to do.

Psychics do the very same thing to their subjects. They tell you predictions that primary poke at a person’s flesh whether good or bad. Prophelying consists of what is named in the bible: divination, enchantment and witchcraft. Wow, some heavy words but let’s look at the scriptures:

And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. (2 Kings 17:17)


My experience with prophelying
I know about this subject because of a former post, I spoke of my experience as Jeremiah the prophet. This I have repented from, but it has left scares and pain I wish I could take back. Here is how I would attack a person with my prophelying:

1st thing – observe/gather information – scan everything you can possible about the person. If you know a little bit about their life, that is good. Mean looks, happy looks, whatever you can go off of helps you add to bits and pieces of the prophelie. I sometimes would take heed to what my wife told me about certain people. This made it easier for me so I didn’t have to guess, or wait for the tingle feeling up my back.

2nd thing – always start with the Lord said statement – I would always start my prophelie with a statement like: Thee Lord is telling/told me; The Lord is saying; God told me; I was praying and Jesus said to me; You looked at me and the Lord spoke to me.

3rd thing – put flavor into your message – I had problems looking people in the eyes (that should have told them something right there). So I would add some emotional reaction to make it look like I was receiving a message as I talk. Like I would stop and act like I am listening to God. I would add a little grunt to make it look real good. I always made it a point to talk about things that people wanted to hear. Statements like: “God is going to multiply your……(as long as it’s good); Jesus loves you; He knows your pain and your struggles; God is bringing peace to your situation. Do you see how general and flesh grabbing these statements are? They just add flavor to it, that’s all. Any bad information never dealt with repenting from sin and turning to the Lord Jesus Christ. Bad stuff always dealt with staying away, don’t do this, touch not, or taste not. It never dealt with So here’s the flavor I would add with a bad statement: God is saying you have a problem and your going to wrong way, change, and you’ll see God’s salvation of God! This general statement is not repentance. It is only to tickle your fancy.

4th thing – look for crowd participation – Saying amen and nodding that it’s God, only fuels the fire. I would always search for tears because that meant that I got them. It worked. The prophelie succeeds when you see the person’s approval. Rejection of it, would mean the person did not “honor a prophet in their own country”.

5th thing – take your imagination as far as it can go - I would say prophelies that would get many people pumped it. I would wear WWJD bracelets as a tool to fuel my prophetic power. I would search for a tingle feeling on the side of my head which would indicate God was speaking. I tried being very poetic, adding some words: Thus, thou, art, anything that sounded KJV if you know what I mean. I would take my imagination far, to make me look good. People thought I was so spiritual and so deep. I was not

I am not at all proud of the things I have done as a propheliar. I repented of all the things of have done under that practice. I have destroyed many people’s lives, and if I would appear before Jesus Christ, may my works be burnt up. I will not deny, I prophelied. And yes, I was a Christian during this time.

God warned me several times during misguided mess. Bad doctrine and not understanding biblical hermeneutics can really lead a Christian down the wrong way. The practice of prophelying, does such a thing as it draws you away from the Word of God into chasing after other gods. Those other gods could be the false prophets I listed above, money, and so on. Whatever will try and keep you from seeking the Lord Jesus Christ first, or keeps you from doing what Colossians 3 instructs us to do.


Prophelies can come to pass
This is where most people get tripped up in the prophelie experience. The supposed prophet says something and it comes to pass. Without doing any biblical investigation, the subject will automatically believe that it is Jesus speaking with the so-called prophet.

If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. (Deuteronomy 13:1-3)

This is amazing scripture. Such a wonderful text. We obviously know that none of the false prophets today outright come out and say let’s follow other gods. Actually they do, but they do it in a descrete way. They are wolves in sheep’s clothing my friends.

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. (Matthew 7:15)

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. (2 Corinthians 11:13)

There prophelies are masked to lead you to follow other things beside Christ. Do you think Benny Hinn is encouraging believers and those around to repent and teaching them the bible? No, he is cashing in and collect, as people come to his crusades for one thing, healing. The same idea was attempted here with Paul, but Paul possessed the Spirit of Jesus:

And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour. And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, (Acts 16:16-19)

The damsel tried to lure people to her market (after other gods), by masking herself with the truth. Her intent was to draw a crowd and people away from the truth. And this is exactly what propheliars do, some not even realizing what is taking place.

This very thing happened to me as I prophelied. I remember I had told one boy that he was going to be a great preacher one day for the Lord. I also that night spoke how the church I was prophelying in was going to change and increase etc. Well, the young man went out and got on drugs but later gave his life to God and came preaching to the church of how good delivered him (good thing). The young man and the church began to follow after such things such as speaking in tongues, and chasing after prophesies more than God’s Holy Word. The churched has not increased or gone over to the nations. I made that lie up because of the different nation’s flags I saw around there church. I was thanked for being bold. I felt good inside, and I worshipped myself. I just told me more that I was God’s chosen one. Do you see how I went completely away from the Lord Jesus Christ, chasing after fame and a name for myself?

Flee from prophelying!
Please repent if you are in such a practice now. Don’t damage anymore lives. Follow after the Lord Jesus Christ and seek the edification of the Body of Christ through God’s Word. The best way to test the spirits to see if they are of God:

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. (1 John 4:1-3)

I know that we all want that sort of experience. God can speak to our minds, and Christ can do wonderful things. But, the Word of God is enough for us. I cannot stress that enough. Studying the scriptures takes time, but it is the best thing that you as a Christian could do. Watch out for those who say they heard a Word from God.

For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD. And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD. They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it? Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly. I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart; Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD. And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD. (Jeremiah 23:11-33)