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    How the Gift Operates

    The following is a clear statement of how the prophetic gift operates on the mind of the prophet in vision or dream:AGP 31.3

    “To us, visions and dreams may appear ill-fitted to serve as vehicles for divine communications. We may not be able to discern God’s reasons for choosing them. But that He has chosen them is certain…. In a vision or divinely given dream, images or ideas, either filling the mind or passing in procession before the consciousness, completely engage the attention of the person without admixture of other thoughts. The mind is thus entirely in the control of the agency making the revelation. And it should be pointed out in this connection that such revelations, together with their contents, are determined by a power outside the recipient’s own will. The intellectual or spiritual quality of a revelation thus received is not derived from the recipient, but from its divine Giver….

    “When the mind is unoccupied by the cares of waking consciousness, when it is quietly at rest, untroubled by the thoughts that fill it at other times, then the Spirit of God takes full and complete possession, and causes to pass before it the ideas or the images of thought that constitute the divine revelation to be made…. This control is always complete and compelling. Under it, the prophet becomes the one moved, not the mover, in the formation of his message. This is what Peter means in his well-known declaration: ‘For no prophecy ever came by the will of man; but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.’ 2 Peter 1:21, A. R. V.

    “As these messages given through the gift of prophecy are produced by the operation, and determined by the control, of the Spirit of God, the result is raised above anything that could by any possibility be achieved by mere human powers or human wisdom. Its origin, and the Spirit-controlled method of its transmission, constitute it entirely a supernatural product…. The instruction given through the gift of prophecy originated in heaven, and is the voice of God to His people. It was given to the church to be heeded and followed, and it came to us under the full direction and control of the Spirit of God. It is a most wonderful privilege to have this gift, and it results in most wonderful blessings to follow its instruction. Divine leadership and divine guidance are the happy lot of the movement that possesses the gift of prophecy.” “The Gift of Prophecy,” Carlyle B. Haynes, pp. 77, 78, 81, 82.

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