FAKE PROPHETS ARE PROOF THAT THERE IS A TRUE PROPHET

It is disheartening that instead of looking out for good, we are more hellbent towards bad outcomes. We subconsciously set our preference to magnifying the bad more than the good. This explains why even the news we think matters is that which reports evil, otherwise, good is not satisfactory enough. Our subconscious conditioning to negativity puts us in a position where we tend to evaluate matters with a confirmation bias, and any form of contradiction, however good, is unwelcome.

Similarly, when you make claim of the existence of fake prophets or men of God everywhere, what you are implicitly saying is that you acknowledge and  know that there are true prophets of God. Just as there cannot be fake without true, the same is the case. For example, for a note to be considered counterfeit, that implies that it's compared against an existing genuine note. This simply means that there’s certainly a true one just as much as there is a fake.

Prophet Elvis Mbonye, a man of God approved, by signs, miracles and wonders.

Likewise, referring to someone as fake just because of our prejudices does not set us on a higher moral pedestal nor make us any more righteous than they are. A lot of people make these conclusive submissions because they relate indifferenty to the workings of God in such men. This failure to recognize the manifestation of God in an unfamiliar presentation dismisses their professions of God's limitless ways of workings. It fixates God to the limited knowledge we have of how far He can perform and thus eliminating His eternity. In other words, God's eternal nature would imply that He has the ability to perform outside the confines of human thinking and expectation as scripted in Ephesians 3:20. (Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.)

God, who is the same yesterday, today and forever has a newness about Him which helps us not to breed contempt based off of our familiarity with Him. At all times, He is up with a new plan of how His will is to be executed and it only takes one to be attuned to know when to move and when to stand as God directs, simply put as, walking with God. We often times judge ministers of God on a true course and miss the bigger picture of what it speaks of our present position in our walk with God, of whether we are walking behind or ahead of Him and therefore, unaware of His present workings. Instead we make reference to His past workings as justification of what He is able to do presently.

Let's refer to our Lord Jesus, who was called all sorts of names by the Pharisees who should have been the custodians of God's word at the time.

In addressing them, the Lord instead testifies that the very Pharisees were standing at the door of the Kingdom, stopping others from entering and not entering in themselves. Metaphorically, they were a stumbling block to those that sought to believe on the Lord. Sadly, this is the same place that the divisions within the church is plunging us into.

Brethren, there is much more to the cause of Jesus than such contentions to inflate our egos and validate our prejudices. Let us set our focus on how to better ourselves in this walk with God, giving our due attention and selves to those things that are worthy whilst ignoring whatever is indifferent and stirs up strife lest we stray from the course in our pursuit of God. Patience in letting ourselves be moulded by God will help us escape the status quo; the place where we desire to be understood by the world more than we do by God. It is more important to be relevant to God than to the world and therein lies the glory that awaits us. And to those who are unable to discern the difference between fake and true, the scriptures tells us that a tree is known by its fruit. No mango tree bears oranges.

By Nabaasa Arnold Burton.

The writer is a member of the entertainment, media & sports cohort of the National Christian Students Association (NCSA).