False Prophets are becoming unbearable in Ghana

Wolves in sheep clothes

The number of prophets that we have in Ghana now are uncountable. We must be aware that we have false prophets and Truth prophets.

As in 1 kings 18: 19, the false prophets always deceive us. you can see that God's prophets are fewer than baal's prophets or false prophets. as it is stated in 1Kings 18:22 " then Elijah said to the people, I, I only, remain a prophet of the Lord, but Baal's prophets are 450 men"

Presently the number of prophets that we have in Ghana are even more than 1000. These our prophets are really making money. They request for large amounts of money from their clients. And their revelations are always the bad things about us. Does that mean that these so called prophets sees only the bad things about their clients.. They always quote the bible like Psalm 105:15, and 1chronicles 16:22 as " saying Touch not My anointed, and do My prophets no harm" so to them indirectly it means to do good to your prophets so after handling over what you have been charged before and after prophesying you have to add another token to fulfill the Bible. Some Prophets now have offices as they employed accountants, cashiers and others. If you go, you have to fill a form by paying Gh5 or so then after that consultation fees Gh500 before the real job starts. After the prophet finish prophesying then you must pay another money for him to help you pray and erase whatever he has seen. Why is it that their results of prophesying always put fear into us? according to 1corinthians 14: 3, it says that, " But the one who prophesies speaks to men for their upbuilding and constructive spiritual progress and encouragement and consolation." And also in 2chronicles 18:12 says "............ the words of the prophets foretell good to the king with one accord so let your word be like one of them, and speak favorably". then why then should these prophets be deceiving us and be making money out of us? And even the items listed by the prophets to be brought if you don't bring it on time, is either you die the next 3days or 7days. Some of their prophesying are like: either they saw death written on your forehead or you are destiny not to get married, or you are noted in the spiritual world as no money, no baby, no car, and others starting with no. Why not yes car, yes marriage, yes money? I think those who believes in these prophets are rather making mistakes. Research has prove that it is the large number of women who are deeply into visiting the false prophets. These prophets are destroying marriages, relationships with children and parents, lives and peoples' jobs, simply because what they are saying are not true.

Some Parents don't have good relationship with their children now because of revelation of the these prophets. Some divorce thier husbands, pack their things to the man of God's house because of prophetism.

Some women have more than 10 personal prophets which they visit. Even if they have headache, they know the type of prophets to go to, and even if they stumble and fall in their shoes, they know the prophet responsible for high heels so they go they to verify whether is one of the witches who push them before they fell. They know those responsible for shoes, money, car, long life, marriage, death, baby, business and even food.

This is really drawing the progress of the nation back. People must begin to realise that, is now time for them to go on their needs and pray rather than frustrating themselves. I couldn't with stand it, when a man was bitterly complaining to me how the words of the prophets has really destroyed his marriage and even making his children now brought under single parenting.

According to Nehemiah 6:14, some prophets only put fear in us.

Looking at Jeremiah 14-16, God said some prophets are prophesying wrongly in his name and he will let the sword and famine consume them.

".....By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed" God also direct the punishment to the victims by saying " and the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem...." In Mathew 7:15 it says "Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves" Also in Mathew

24:11 " And many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many"

I think it is high time we go on our knees and prayed to God and cast our Burdens unto him than believing in false prophets. In psalm 55:22,

1peter5:7 and Philippians 4: 6-7 says that we should cast our burdens unto the Lord for he is ready to save us.

For in the book of
1corinthians 3:21-23: God said "all things are Yours" we must know that since everything belongs to God and Christ belongs to God and we belongs to Christ, everything on earth are ours. You have the right to enjoy the full blessing without anyone revealing it to you or paying someone to help you get it. In Issiah 1:19 " if you will let me help you, if you will only obey, i will make you rich" Becoming rich does not mean getting money alone, but be rich in Knowledge, health, prosperity, marriage, finances and other areas of our life. We should meditate upon the word day and night. as it in Psalm 119:15. Everything that we need on this earth is in the Bible. Let us educate our spirit with the word of God. Just tune into this Good Christian Channels like Sunny Fm, Sweet Melodies and a lot more then you will hear the word to nurture yourself. Just have faith in God and say to yourself that every challenges you are going through will be for a purpose and glorification of God, so the God that made you and love you so much will not disappoint you. For he says that he will never put a burden on you that you can never take or bear. Let's try and leave a worry free lives so that we will not be frustrating ourselves by visiting these false Prophets. We have big anointed men of God such as Dag Heward Mills, Mensah Otabil, Agyna Asari, T.B Joshua, Pastor Chris and a lot more which if you listen to their messages you will feel bless.

I
recommend you to get yourself with these books like Rhapsody of Realities, Quiet Time, Daily Guied, Faith Seed and others that you can be using to have your quiet time daily. I will ask you to rather spen your monies on Church projects, orphans, motherless, fatherless, widowers, widows and the poor rather than giving it to these prophets to spend for free. You can get 200 Bible quotations that speaks on prophets and the version i use in my quotations most is the Amplied version of the Bible . " Beware of False Prophets for their Thieves"

Ms Shallom Lumor
Ghana Institute of Journalism
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