If you didn't see the video of the word for Olympia

Last week, we posted a video of some prophetic words over Olympia, Washington, and over the Northwest region in general, from Chris Overstreet and his team. They were encouraging words, and I recommend that folks who pray for the Northwest region incorporate them into their prayers.

It seems that many mail programs declined to show the video. Don’t you love it when technology gets in your way?

If the video didn’t appear in your email, or didn’t play for you there, you can go to the www.NorthwestProphetic.com home page to see it, or you can go to the source page (http://nwp.link/2CWt2fl) and play it there. (It’s on the NWP channel on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WmEs7ah3Jwo)

Thanks for your prayers for the Northwest, and for the NWP team!

Blessings!

The Testimony of Jesus

In Revelation 19:10, the angel said to John, "Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

Therefore, testimonies about Jesus are part of the body of prophetic revelation that God has for us. If we want to have all that God is speaking to us, we need both the prophetic word and the word of testimonies. I'm remembering that in the Old Testament, the place of God's presence - specifically the place He spoke from - was over the Ark of the Testimony, and inside the Ark were various items (a jar of manna, Aaron's rod that had budded, the tablets of the 10 Commandments) that were in fact testimonies of what God had done.

It occurs to me that by not including testimonies of what Jesus is doing in the Northwest, we've been unintentionally excluding a substantial amount of the prophetic revelation that God has already given to us.

Those missing testimonies certainly would have spoken a great deal about the nature of God, answering some of the question of "Who is this God that's speaking to and about our region?" That, in itself, is as valuable to us as it was to the Children of Israel in their wilderness.

But there's more. In the depths of the Greek word for "testimony" is the concept of doing it again. It has been said that that inherent in the testimony of what God has done is a declaration that He will do it again, almost an invitation to invite Him to do it again!

If He has healed this sort of thing before, then it's not just testimony that He can heal this sort of thing, but it's also a declaration that is the God who heals this sort of thing, and if I have this sort of need, then I should bring it to Him.

So we'll consider this a post an act of repentance of a sort. We'll be including testimonies - from time to time - of specific things that God has done, knowing that they are a part of the prophetic revelation for our region. I invite you, as you read the testimonies of what God has done, to pray and ask that He would do more of those things.

I'd love to hear your testimonies, but I'll ask for some contact information for the folks involved: we're looking for testimonies, not rumors. :-)

We'll see how to administrate this as we move into it. Thanks for your prayers.

Opportunity to Help With Northwest Prophetic

NorthWest Prophetic has opportunity for some folks that would like to be involved behind the scenes. No, We're not asking for money, we're asking for time and for skills.

First and most obviously, the NWP team doesn't have enough eyes and ears to see and hear all of the prophetic words out there. So if you hear a prophetic word that speaks about Washington, Oregon, Idaho or Northern California, please email it to us at northwestpropehtic@gmail.com. We are, after all, a community! If you can send them as text files, that's best, but if you have .mp3 recording or similar, then please send them, and read on:

Second, some of the prophetic words we are given are recordings and need to be transcribed. We're looking for one or two people who have time and skills to take a recording and turn it into a text file (which is just listening to the recording and typing it out). We have a couple of recordings of key prophetic words now, but I'd much prefer to add the text of the words: so many people who access this site don't have the bandwidth for audio or video files, and we're trying not to exclude them!

Third, and this is probably first priority: important, though perhaps not as urgent, we need prayer: prayer for protection and wisdom, of course, but also for the very things that these prophetic words declare. Pray also for strategies and relationships to grow and occupy our corner of the Kingdom in our Northwest region.

A Conversation about Judging the Prophetic Words

I have permission to quote this conversation, and it seemed like it might be helpful in answering questions. -Editor.

-----Original Message-----
Good morning,

I am a relatively new Christian, but have experience with the "charismatic" side of things (I go to a Vineyard church), and I'm just curious...how accurate do you claim these words are? As in, have they been "tested" (as Paul says to test all things)? If so, how? By whom? If not, are you leaving that up to us, the residents of the NW? Do you post every prophecy you get? If not, how do you decide what to post? What happens if someone disagrees with a posted prophecy?

Thanks,

What a joy to hear from you. I’m glad that you’re willing to ask good questions!

The website (http://www.northwestprophetic.com/) is not an attempt to judge the prophetic words. I am a longtime believer and a native to the region, but am in no way qualified to judge all the words for our region: I’m one of many believers in the area, one with some decades of experience with God, but not, probably, more than your pastors.

I do run a few of the words past some of the prophetic folks I’m in relationship with, but generally it’s pretty obvious whether a word belongs or not. When I am considering a word for the site, I’m looking for three things primarily: credibility, relevance, and attitude. I think all of the words have passed those three tests in my own mind, though I reserve the right to make mistakes. J I make the assumption that I’ve overlooked some words that should be posted, and posted some that are maybe more fluff than content.

For the credibility question, I’m looking for a word that comes from a “recognized prophet” with a proven ministry (not that there’s any National Registry of Prophets or anything J), or that the word comes by way of another leader with whom I have enough relationship to trust (for example, through their website, or perhaps they sent the word to me), or that the word comes from someone whose character and prophetic ministry I know personally and have reason to trust. That’s actually a pretty broad circle: I work pretty hard on not being exclusive to one “stream” or denomination or such.

The relevance question is a little easier: either the word will be about the Northwest (in one degree or another – and sometimes I only post the relevant portion), or it will be from someone in the Northwest, or it will be a word that is targeting a larger audience, but which I believe has significance in the Northwest region. I try to identify these last ones as “Not exclusively for the Northwest” or some such, and I try to identify the words that I’ve edited, and post a link to the un-edited version.

The attitude question is about, “Is this loving?” or “Is this ‘comforting, edifying and/or encouraging?’” If a word strikes me as judgmental or self-promoting or excessively “religious,” I may be inclined to hesitate. In reality I try to give folks the benefit of the doubt wherever possible, trusting you to judge as you need to. More on that in a minute.

I don’t solicit prophetic words at this point and thus far I have never posted a word that someone has sent me asking for publication. I have had some folks approach me recently with their prophetic words, and I will look for credibility, relevance and attitude before I consider any of their words. I also have not posted any of my own prophetic words, though that may also change at some point (if it seems credible, relevant, and has a good attitude J).

I want to avoid being legalistic about these things; that’s how I do it for now.

The site is designed first of all to be a tool for intercessors. I know there are many people praying for our region, and praying according to God’s revealed plan is likely to be the best kind of prayer. The first and most important revelation of His plan is the Bible of course, but we already have Bibles published. A lesser source of revelation, but an important one, are the prophetic words over our region, and I have been unable to find any place where those had been gathered together, whether in print or online. So I began the task of gathering them myself. I’ve been startled by the interest in the site.

Beyond intercession, I aspire to have a reference by which Northwest believers can build realistic expectations of what God has said He wants to do in our region, and to respond to Him accordingly; I’m both getting and giving some training based in part on some of these words.

I didn’t have this in mind, but I find that the “Northwest Prophetic” website has helped some people build a sense that this really is “our region,” and nobody else is going to take responsibility for it. I consider that to be a good thing, especially if it translates into prayer for revival, or hunger for God, or other yummy things. Eventually, I expect that we’ll have other resources specifically for the church in our region, or at least I’m praying (and planning) that direction.

But you are correct: I leave judgment of the words up to the recipients of the prophetic words; in this case that’s you and me and the rest of the believers in this region. If a particular word doesn’t work for you, that’s OK: don’t pray that one; there are many others to pray! I trust the Holy Spirit in you to guide you accurately. For myself, I tend to look for trends: I see several words about healing in our region, so I can ask God with some confidence to release healing gifts in our region.

If you know of some prophetic words that you think should be included, by all means, please send them. If you’d include things like who gave the word, and when was it given, and such, it will help me evaluate credibility, relevance and attitude better.

As to if someone disagrees with a word, well, I don’t know what I’d do. Never had it happen yet, or at least they’ve never spoken to me about it.

Bless ya!