How to Operate in Prophetic Gifts in the Courts of Heaven

We all have prophetic abilities—especially if you are filled/baptized in the Holy Spirit.

These prophetic abilities can be of great help and benefit when operating in the Courts of Heaven. John 16:13 gives us insight into the Holy Spirit and His nature.

However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.

Notice that when He speaks, He speaks what another says and He tells us about things to come. This means the very nature of the Spirit of God is prophetic. If the Holy Spirit lives in us, then the prophetic nature of God is in us as well. I want to encourage you to stop saying you are not prophetic or don’t have prophetic abilities. Your voice and words work against you.

I remember being in another nation and praying with a group that was in great distress. Before we began to pray, I told them, “I do not see.” What I meant by this was I’m not a seer; therefore, don’t expect that of me. As I later considered what motivated me to say this, I saw that it was born of insecurities and uncertainties of who I was. Then after we had prayer and I had received some very significant revelation concerning their situation, they were commenting on how it helped them. I then began to make light of my abilities because I felt uncomfortable with the affirmation they were giving. At that moment, the Lord said to me, “Stop saying that!” I knew the Lord was correcting me. He began to convict and chasten me with my treatment of what was coming from Him. He showed me that I was devaluing His gifting in my life. He showed me that if this gifting was to grow, I needed to treat it as holy. My not treasuring what was from Him was an actual offense to Him. This is one of the ways we grieve the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 4:30 exhorts us to be careful to not hurt and offend the Spirit of God.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

The word grieve in the Greek is lupeo. It means “to be in distress, heaviness, to make sorrowful.” This is what I was doing by diminishing the gifting of the Lord in me. Out of my insecurity and sense of inferiority, I was offending the Spirit of the Lord. I remember excusing myself and walking to another part of the room. I began to repent for my serious error. I promised the Lord I would not do this again. I would instead value and regard the giftings of God and seek to develop them. The result has been that I have increased in my prophetic abilities. It has greatly helped me in my function in the Courts of Heaven. It has allowed me to step out of the old and into the new.

For instance, delay has always been something that has sought to attach itself to me. I successfully dealt with it on a certain level, but it tried to reattach to me later on. There were a couple of opportunities that had been promised to me. However, actual occurrence had not happened. The history of delay in my life made me worry that they would not happen. I was in a hotel room and simply said to the Lord, “Is there something yet resisting me in the spirit world?”

Without hesitation, the Lord seemed to say, “Yes, there is.” The truth is that I could have dismissed this as my imagination and questioned whether it was really the Lord. However, I treated it instantly like it was. The result was the Lord started speaking to me. Just like we shared in the last chapter about Moses, my movement unlocked an encounter with God that brought tremendous breakthrough. As a result of my faith to embrace this whisper of the Lord, I then felt I heard the Lord say, “I need for you to say before Me what Moses said when Korah accused him.” As the Lord said this, I remembered that Moses in Numbers 16:15 renounced the idea that he had taken something from someone.

Then Moses was very angry, and said to the Lord, “Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, nor have I hurt one of them.”

I realized that there was an accusation in the Courts of Heaven against me that I had stolen something that belonged to someone else. I knew that I wasn’t guilty of this, yet somebody in the natural was speaking these things about me. The devil was taking their words of accusation and using it against me in the Courts of Heaven. These words were causing delay to occur in my life. I understood this from a prophetic standpoint. I then knew intuitively that if I said what the Lord told me to say, it would give God the legal right to look into the books of Heaven to verify what I was saying. There are all sorts of books in Heaven. This is why Daniel 7:10 tells us the Court is seated and the books, plural, are opened.

A fiery stream issued And came forth from before Him. A thousand thousands ministered to Him; ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him. The court was seated, and the books were opened.

Everything is written down and recorded in the books of Heaven. The Jewish people believe that even our thoughts are writ- ten down. We know that our words are recorded. This is because according to Matthew 12:36-37 we will give an account for every idle word we have spoken.

But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.

If we are to give an account in the day of judgment, then these words must be recorded somewhere! They are written in the books of Heaven. If words are recorded, then there must be books in Heaven that are recording everything concerning us and our activities.

I was aware that as I said what the Lord told me to say, it was granting God the right to investigate these books. The books revealed that I was not guilty of what was being said about me. This allowed the Lord to render a decision on my behalf. The words being spoken against me, accusing me of taking something that wasn’t mine, were now annulled. I felt a tremendous release as I prophetically walked through this process. I thought that maybe I had dealt with that which was causing a delay. I didn’t know that the prophetic process still had a necessary piece to be accomplished.

As I returned home the next day or so, I had a dream on that night. In my dream, Mary and I were standing before this very well-known minister. In the natural, I have no connection to this ministry. I’ve never supported them. I’ve never attended a meeting. I’ve only seen him on television a handful of times. In fact, I don’t even really enjoy his ministry. In the dream, however, as we were standing before his ministry, and we were deciding how much money we were going to give to his ministry. Mary said, “Let’s give $100.” I said in response, “No, let’s give $1,000.” This was the end of the dream. When I woke up, I knew immediately what I was supposed to be doing. I was supposed to give this ministry $1,000 so that the money would speak for me in the Courts. I had this knowing that the activity in the hotel room had silenced the voice against me in the Courts, but I needed something speaking for me also. This comes from my knowledge that money has a voice in the Courts of Heaven. Hebrews 7:8 is clear that our tithe speaks for us in the heavenly realm.

Here mortal men receive tithes, but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.

The writer of Hebrews is making a distinction concerning bringing tithes to the Levitical priesthood and the Melchizedek order. Jesus is our High Priest after the order of Melchizedek. Therefore, we honor His priesthood with our tithe. Notice that when we do this, there is a witness released on our behalf. The word witness is the Greek word matureo. This word means “to give testimony, to be a witness judicially.” Therefore, when we give our tithes, Jesus receives them as our High Priest. This tithe is releasing testimony that we believe He lives. This testimony connects us to His present-day life and activity on our behalf. We are told that Jesus is alive and interceding for us. When we bring our tithe, the witness on our behalf joins us to His present-day ministry for us. This is because your money has a voice/testimony in the Courts of Heaven. We also know this is true because of Matthew 5:23-26.

Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are on the way with him, lest your adversary deliver you to the judge, the judge hand you over to the officer, and you be thrown into prison. Assuredly, I say to you, you will by no means get out of there till you have paid the last penny.

Jesus is clear that we are not to bring our offering if there are problems in our heart. This is because the wrong testimony coming from our offerings will result in judgments against us from the Courts of Heaven. The devil will take advantage of the words against us from our offering and build a case that is adverse to us. The result will be a decision against us that can result in us being thrown into prison. This is why we are told that we should make sure things are reconciled before bringing an offering. Otherwise, our offering will be tainted with a wrong witness. It will be speaking against us in the Courts of Heaven rather than for us.

Notice that we are then judged and end up in prison. This is all based on the testimony of our gift. The other scripture that is so powerful is Malachi 3:3-5. This scripture unveils the power of a right offering speaking for us and even the culture we are a part of.

He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, That they may offer to the Lord An offering in righteousness. “Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to the Lord, As in the days of old, As in former years. And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers, against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, and against those who turn away an alien— Because they do not fear Me,” says the Lord of hosts.

This portion of scripture is declaring the power of our offerings to bring testimony before the Lord. This testimony will cause God to judge that which is afflicting society. Our offerings are mighty witnesses in the Courts of Heaven. They not only speak on behalf of us but also on behalf of the culture we represent before the Lord. When this occurs, the testimony God needs to render righteous judgments is provided. When I bring my offering as a part of the House of Prayer, these offerings speak for our culture as well as for us as individuals. This is why God can render judgments against what is afflicting society based on the witness of our offerings before Him.

This is what I knew concerning the dream I had about bringing an offering to this high-profile ministry. I considered and thought about this dream all day after I had it. That night, Mary went to bed and I was still up. I started flipping through the television channels. As I turned the channels, I came upon this ministry that I had dreamed about. Only because of the dream did I turn to this channel. As I did, the main man and another guy were speaking. They were raising money. They were saying, “We are asking you to give $1,000. However, if you can’t do this, then give a tithe of that and give $100.” As I heard this, I thought, That’s my dream. That was all I needed. Any reluctance to sow $1,000 into this ministry was gone. I went to my computer, found this ministry, and sent the $1,000 to them immediately. It was 11 p.m. when I sent the money. I had fulfilled what I had been prophetically told to do.

The next morning at 10 p.m., my phone rang. It was the people I had been waiting on to get back with me. The end result was that things were arranged and I was given a worldwide influence that still exists to this day. As a result of listening and moving prophetically, I had operated in the Courts of Heaven. I had silenced the voices against me and released voices to speak for me. The result has been a wide open door to a great effect in the nations of the earth. God is faithful and true to His word. He will allow us to move with Him when we operate in the prophetic realms. It is not beyond us. We all have these abilities and giftings on some level. Start using them today.

Lord, I come before You as the Judge of all the earth. I thank You for the prophetic abilities You have granted me as a Spirit-filled believer. I receive the prophetic nature of the Holy Spirit who lives in me. I repent for any devaluing of the prophetic gifting in me, because it doesn’t “look” like that in someone else. I honor Your gifting in me. I treasure that which You have trusted me with. I purposely stir up these giftings. I ask that I might use these to function in the Courts of Heaven on a higher level. May this function move me from the old and into the new. I pay attention to the revelation You bring to me from these prophetic places. In Jesus’ Name, amen.