Where are the true prophetess (women) of God?

Prophets rebuked for prophesying from the flesh
[Ezekiel 13:17 (KJV) Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them.]
The prophet Ezekiel is instructed by the Lord to speak against women prophets who prophesy out of their flesh and cause people to be trapped like birds. These prophetesses today are called psychics and God’s people have no business going to a psychic for instruction or any information. Psychics are usually found in the world where they nickel and dime people for every word they give. The gift of a psychic is not like that of a prophetess who gets direction from the Holy Spirit.
The first scripture used in this writing is a rebuke or warning scripture.
Prophetesses who are grounded in the Word of God will receive a word of rebuke with love and understanding even if it does not apply to them; they will have an attitude of love and obedience to being a true servant of God.

Principal established that sons and daughters would prophesy (See Romans 11:29)
[Joel 2:28-29 (KJV) (See Acts 2:16 – 18) And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: [29] And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.]
· Prophesy is not something new for God’s kingdom; the first named prophet in the Bible was Enoch and the last mentioned was John the Revelator. Those names were mentioned in the Holy Bible; God had Joel to prophesy that your sons and daughters would prophesy, which means that many other people not named in the Bible would use the gift given by God to speak a word when appropriate.
· It is significant that God had Joel to prophesy the statement and Luke the Beloved Physician when he wrote the book of Acts to repeat it. Repetition was necessary so no one could say God has stop using prophets (sons) and prophetess (daughters) today.
· If the truth be told as it should; we need the prophets and prophetess more than ever because of the times we live in that are filled with evil, jealousy, envy, strife, hate for things that are good, and all the rest of the wrath from Satan because he will never be loved by God again.
· God made several promises by the prophet Joel and God is not a man that will lie. God is a true God.
· The pouring out of the spirit on all flesh is available for those who will receive it.
· Gifts and callings are without repentance and those who have the gift of prophesy have a choice to use their gift for God or Satan. One thing God will not do is violate our will. Human kind has to have a will to use the gift for God.
· Have you reviewed a dream by an older man recently?
· Have you reviewed a vision by a young man recently?
· This that God has is not just for prophets and prophetess, but it is for all (servants and handmaids).
· As the prophet Isaiah said, “If you be willing and obedient you will eat the good of the land,” the good of the land today is to receive the indwelling of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of other tongues. That is the gift that God has for those who will receive.

Miriam
[Exodus 15:20 (KJV) And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.]
· The first female prophetess mentioned in the Bible.
· Here we find the sister of the great prophet and emancipator – Moses.

Deborah
[Judges 4:4 (KJV) And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.]
· Deborah was a prophetess and judge with such an awesome responsibility and all the women who were named after Deborah the prophetess by there parents.

Huldah
[2 Kings 22:14 (KJV) So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college ;) and they communed with her.]
· It is so precious to see how the scriptures describe Huldah a prophetess and person of esteem who was only one of two people not of the house of David to be buried in Jerusalem at that time.

Noadiah
[Nehemiah 6:14 (KJV) My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.]
· It is unfortunate that someone has to be seen in a negative light, but Noadiah the prophetesses consorted with the dark side to speak against Nehemiah. A true prophet of God would not seek a word contrary to what God gave an individual.

Isaiah’s wife
[Isaiah 8:3 (KJV) And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the Lord to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.]
· Isaiah’s wife was not only a prophetess but also a mother which meant that more prophets and prophetess would be born to the glory of God.

Elisabeth
[Luke 1:41-45 (KJV) And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: [42] And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. [43] And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? [44] For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy. [45] And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.]
· A daughter of Aaron born with the gift and demonstrated the gift when she said “Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.” This phrase is said every day by individuals who think Mary was always a virgin; she was not.
· Elisabeth was the first prophetess filled with Holy Spirit; filled with the Holy Spirit is a prerequisite for complete use of the gift and office of prophecy. There are prophets and prophetess, who are not filled with the Holy Spirit that prophesy, however, they are not working at their optimum. Remember, gifts and callings are without repentance; the choice to receive Christ in our life and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit is our choice – God leaves it to us to accept or reject His precious gift.

Anna
[Luke 2:36-38 (KJV) And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; [37] And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. [38] And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.]
She was of the tribe of Aser one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Here we find a woman of God faithful to her dead husband by not remarrying and extremely faithful to God by staying in the temple night and day.
She fasted and prayed before Jesus said some things come out only by fasting and praying.
She spoke of the coming Messiah.

Daughters of Phillip
[Acts 21:9 (KJV) And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.]
Depending on the version of the Holy Bible you review; one version (NASB-U) out of many used the term prophetess instead of prophesy.
These young women were born with the “gift” and they were probably learning how to use their “gift” to the glory of God.
These young women was a direct fulfillment of the prophesy in the book of Joel and Acts.

Jezebel
[Rev. 2:20 (KJV) Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.]
The prophet John goes right to the point by exposing Jezebel; she had the “gift” like the other prophetess above; the problem is that she used it perversely.
The church then and now refused to confront Jezebel, Jesus doctrine in Matthew 18:15-17 gives the process by which to confront and deal with these kinds of situations.
The church leaders at Thyatira ignored “that woman Jezebel,” but God did not. God said he gave her time to repent, but she refused. Has anyone ever met a person with the Jezebel spirit who has repented in the twenty-first century?
The Jezebel spirit can possess a man or women; another name for the Jezebel spirit in men is Ahab; the name Ahab comes, from the first man in the bible named Ahab possessed by this spirit.
Notice the Apostle John says that Jezebel calls herself a prophetess, when other people see and recognize the gift in you, you do not have to call yourself any name. Proverbs says that your gift will make room for you.
The sin that Jezebel practices is the sin that the Elders in Jerusalem told the Gentile converts to avoid; the Gentiles were instructed in Acts 15:20 (KJV) But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
One of the main instruments of Satan is the use of the spirit of seduction; notice Jezebel uses seduction as a tool to get people to commit fornication.
The other sin of Jezebel is to get people to eat things sacrificed to idols.
Have you ever met anyone possessed by the Jezebel spirit who repented and turned from his or her evil way?

General Comments about Prophetess and Prophets
The question must be raised, “Where are the true prophetesses of God,” which actually begs another question that must be answered first. That question is why do only some of the Christian churches in America accept and allow prophetess and prophets to move freely among the congregation. Prophetess and prophets should be in every Christian church in America. Jesus at the time he went back to heaven made a very direct gift’s to the church. Those gifts are enumerated in Ephesians 4:11 (KJV) “And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers.” You would think that if Jesus went to the trouble of identifying the five-fold ministry that church leaders would be doing all they could to receive an apostle, a prophet (prophetess), an evangelist, a pastor and a teacher into the local ministry.

When proper relationship and accountability is established, a prophetess and/or a prophet could be one of the best friends of a local pastor and the ministry team. Pastors and other local church leaders are not in the perfect will of God when they fail to use all the team members given them by the Holy Spirit. Church leadership should use all the team members of the five-fold ministry. Some indication suggests churches without the five-fold ministry are lacking funds to pay for all ministers of the five fold and another leading reason is that the Pastor only model does not want to share authority and responsibility.

Are there really, that many insecure and not anointed leaders in the Christian church? It seems that there is a fear of the full five-fold ministry and specific to this article there seems to be a direct fear of prophetess and prophets. Could it be that the gift these individuals possess frightens church leaders because they are afraid that they may be exposed. Whatever the real reason we do not see the prophetess and prophets operating in American churches, those reasons must cease; in order for Prophet Joel’s words to come alive and the full flow that God ordained may be experienced by all.

The spirit of boldness will come on those prophetess and prophets who are not allowed to freely flow in the anointing in there local assembly to minister. This spirit of boldness will allow the prophetess and prophets to minister to people who are willing to receive a word from the Lord in the church or out of it. We are living in the last of the last days before Christ returns the first time to catch the bride away and there are many souls not going to traditional churches, God has a word for many of those people not in the traditional church. Understand that the spirit of boldness is going to manifest itself in an incredible way and no system or no man/woman will stop the end-time work from coming forth out-of-the mouths of God’s ordained and chosen.

Whether in the traditional or non-traditional setting prophetess and prophets need to be free to use the gift given by the Holy Spirit so that they may work out their salvation with fear and trembling. The beauty of the gift from God for a full prophetess or full prophet is that they are able to see the past, present, and the future. When a prophetess or prophet is a seer, they are at the highest level of the office that man or woman may obtain. There are seers (male and female), prophetesses, and prophets in the land now and they are available to minister, as doors are open by the Holy Spirit. Those in leadership who will teach the body of Christ about the office and gift of prophecy are doing a great service to the Church so that saints will have knowledge and know how to receive a seer, prophetess, or prophet.

A true prophetess or prophet of God will never prophesy a word that is contrary to God’s Holy Bible. The Apostle Paul gives the process by which prophecy is delivered in 1 Corinthians 14:29-33 (NIV), it says, “Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said. 30 And if a revelation comes to someone who is sitting down, the first speaker should stop. 31 For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged.32 The spirits of prophets are subject to the control of prophets. 33 For God is not a God of disorder but of peace. As in all the congregations of the saints.” There is no confusion in the heavenly kingdom; the kingdom of God is the primary kingdom that we must operate in on this earth, even when it is different from the kingdom of man. We must learn to trust God and believe in and operate in His kingdom. We are citizens of heaven and are temporarily here on this earth; earth is not our home.

There are only two kinds of prophetess and prophets either good = obeying the spirit of God or false = obeying the spirit of Satan. There is no in between. Prophetess and prophets walk in the light or in darkness; Isaiah says it best in Isaiah 8:19-20 (KJV) “And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? [20] To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” The point of emphasis is, if a prophetess or prophet has behavior like Balaam he or she is an instrument of Satan. However, if you are not convinced that the last statement is accurate, then you should proceed at your own caution.

Seers, prophetess, and prophets are encouraged to be careful not to give a word from their own spirit or flesh because people who get a word are expecting that word to be directly from the Lord.

The primary encouragement of this article is that the church world incorporates the use of seers, prophetess, and prophets in all aspects of ministry when possible. One irrefutable claim is that Jesus said that when He was sent back to catch the bride away He would be coming back for a complete church; so how can the church be complete if only “Pastors” are the whole ministry team?