This was my response to a question asked on Yahoo answers. The question read,
Serious question: I know as a Christian we are not supposed to have our fortunes told but..? Has anyone done so? Was it accurate? Do you believe there is any merit to it? I just cannot see how my hand can tell my future but I am curious.
I showed her that prophecy exists today and gave examples and explained these gifts in this brief answer and article here.
It s a good question and you have many answers but I might just add one here.
In the book of 1 Corinthians Prophecy is listed as one of the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit. As a catholic I think you believe other things to be the gifts as I have read some Catholic websites on the gifts of the Spirit.
But here is the verse.
7Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues,[a] and to still another the interpretation of tongues.[b] 11All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines.
The gift of knowledge listed here is an ability that I have that allows me to tell a person specific things about their life and personality and situations without knowing them. The gift of Knowledge is a good way to start a conversation I have found as it was used by Jesus with the woman at Jacobs well.
He said you have had six husbands and the partner you have now is not your husband. She replied, I percieve you are a prophet. Of which Jesus was.
The gift of knowledge has a counterfeit that pyscics have but the spirit that gives them the knowledge about a person is an evil spirit.
The message of wisdom above also is a prophetic gift. The message of wisdom is the Lord Jesus direction for a person to take in a specific situation. This isn t nice advice, this a personal message from God, say that, this man in your life should not be the one you are to marry. The men in the Bible s Old Testiment that were prophets used to use this message of wisdom when they gave a king a specific way to fight a war. When it was followed the nation of Israel had a victory when it was ignored they had heavy losses.
The gift of prophecy is a gift that allows you to speak a message to a person or a body of believers in a church meeting ot in an article, that is a relevant and personal message from God and his throneroom to that person at that certain time and place. I have typed prophecies that included words of knowledge and mesages of wisdom in them also that have gone for ten pages.
The people of the world seek out prophecies from the wrong side because most of the church believe and teach that prophets do not exist anymore since Jesus last disciple died and that the gifts of the Holy Spirit passed away with them.
This is baloney.
I have personally accurately given over a thousand prophecies to people online via email and in person and I have seen tears of joy in peoples eyes as I have delivered the personal ones.
Jesus knows your future and He has equipped people on earth to flow in the Spirit and use the three aformentioned gifts.
I am very practiced in them and in only three times have a accepted a gift of money after doing it.
Tonight a guy offered to buy me a hamburger after giving him obe about his current life and his future..
If this was voted best answer people might want to email me and I ll pass them onto two prophets that work on a website of mine and we ll see what Jesus says to them.
Phycics all have the ability if saved and filled with the Holy Spirit to be modern Christian prophets as they all have highly developed intuition where the Holy Spirit speaks though.
I have never consulted one but I cannot blame anyone that has. If the Christian church isn t offering it people can go to good hearted people in the occult and seek answers.
Be blessed
Oh yes and in your tradition I would be called a modern day mystic
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